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Jamaican Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) volunteers dressed in their ‘English’ coats leaving the Colonial Centre in Russell Square, London, 1943 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

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BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S 1961 — dir. Blake Edwards

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hooked rugs, c. 1860.

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oh well. at least there's research into topics no one but me gives a fuck about

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Me: I don't really believe in gatekeeping a field where anyone can learn with enough work. The training we get in academia isn't impossible to self-teach.

Also me: The number of people calling themselves "historians" or pretending to educate about history on social media when they're just reading Wiki or telling you fun facts is way too high. The job title has meaning. You wouldn't call yourself a mathematician for knowing how to make your graphing calculator make graphs.

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Hairdresser, Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe, circa 1895, Guadalupe.

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Full moon above the Acropolis in Greece.

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St Wendreda is a 14th-century church famous for its “angel roof”, featuring 120 carved figures of martyrs, apostles, saints, and angels. The ornaments were created either at the end of the 15th century or in the first quarter of the 16th century.

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I don’t know if I can contain my “The Muppet Christmas Carol has better costume design than most Oscar-nominated period dramas” rant until after Thanksgiving you guys, I have…so many Thoughts

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A few of the more creative spellings of Christmas I’ve come across while looking for Dear Santa letters in old newspapers this year.

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medieval lit is really fun. there will be a footnote that is like “nobody knows what the author meant there and scholars have been debating it for centuries” 

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Men of the H. A. C. outside their dug-out in Sanctuary Wood, June 1915.

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Valentine Card Envelope (1857-65).

Embossed paper with ink writing and wax seal.

Birmingham Museums Trust, licensed under CC0

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Here he spoke for all of us. Go off, king!!!

Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell Wolf Hall: The Mirror and The Light | Episode Five 'Mirror'

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Summer Richards as Katherine Howard

Wolf Hall 2.05