Feminist Pub 16: where the Bluestockings develop armoured stockings to deal with the thousand paper cuts

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Carry on.

annie

I'll just provide the light relief, cos I know absolutely nothing about history of any stripe except that quite a lot of it happened a long time ago.

I know someone whose firstborn has Leif as one of their names.

I only know history that happened in fiction. For example, the history of England in Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (thread in Adult Fiction which I have joined instead of the DLS thread ) is so much more exciting.

Besides it's probably all fictitious anyway. >

In many languages, there's just one word for history and story. Which is fair enough if it's narrative, but ignores all tge analytical side, though the language came before history was an academic discipline as we know it today. (And whatever my lecturers said, I think there's a need for narrative history, because how can you analyse any of it unless you know what events happened?)

But now I have to go and be an IT person and take a techy certification exam. Frankly, I'd rather write a good history essay just now. It's about the same level of stress, but history is more interesting than the techy stuff. It doesn't matter if I can't remember which log file in the config has precedence, because in real life, we'd probably check both just in case.

I did archaeology rather than history per se but we were warned about precisely this problem, so the awareness of it is not limited to philosophy. I think history study has always encouraged a variety of different methods because of it.

Though I did come across a couple of books talking about ancient Egypt just ito (modern concerns) status and power that made me think it may have been forgotten. You can't dismiss religious feeling in ancient egypt. But may have just been another approach.

ps Emphasis onHenry 8th really annoys me too. Among the Tudors, Henry 7th was a much better king imo, England was lucky to get him. But hey, all those wives...

I think Catherine of Aragon is interesting. What did she think and feel? What would she post on MN (which is the most relevant question, obviously )?

one of the battles of the roses was fought in my back garden slight exaggeration

i think margaret beaufort and margaret of anjou are fascinating people too

battles of the war of the roses obv

Were they fighting over the Strawberry Cream ?

AIBU to think after six pregnancies, annulling a marriage is a tad...unreasonable? I could've gone back to Spain, you know, not so DH...

CofA would have been on the receiving end of a string of LTBs and some robust supportive advice from AF and cogito

no one would fight over strawberry creams. they are the worst ones

No, they are the best ones!

This is going to turn into celery gate all over again, isn't it?!

I think it would have been tough for K of A to LTB..., "first get your DH to break with Rome and invent divorce - then get one! Ha, that'll show him!"

Strawberry cream? Yuck!

K of A is my favorite queen consort. And I really dislike some of the film and TV portrays of her; they always get her appearance wrong for one thing. I did like Annette Crosbie in The 1970s Six Wives.

I had a dog (Welsh breed) many years ago named Henry Tudor. I had to constantly tell people he was named for Henry VII, not VIII.

I have a suspicion that all 6 wives would have got LTB on here ... What if Henry VIII posted? He would have had such a pasting! Then he would have shut down the internet.

he would be assumed to be a troll!

Henry's wives posts on the Relationships would be interesting - "DH's scribes are appearing at the strangeth hour of night".

Pointless and non paradigm shifting fact for the day.

Æthelstan was crowned in the town that I spent part of my childhood in. I have touched, with my bare hand, the rock that his royal bottom sat on while he was having a crown plonked on his head.

I have a good friend who's name is Thorbjorn, but with the proper symbol for th and umlauts and everything.

I find Henry viii's reign fascinating, not from a salacious who shagged who to get a prince PoV, but because it was a reign where pretty much everything was different when it ended to when it began, all over the "known world". Boring cahhhh that I am.

Buffy's post at 12:43:05 - That is exactly what I mean by my Sweeping Statement. >

Another dull fact: My children are engaged in drawing portraits of their soft toys. Peace and quiet.

My historical knowledge is woeful. But I don't know quite where to start.