#England's victories

[theofficialpresidentofmars]

started watching Death Note yesterday and have come to the conclusion that if Hamlet had access to a death note, literally nothing in the play would change or happen differently in the slightest

[illustratus]

Trafalgar; Victory at noon - H.M.S. 'Victory' breaking the enemy line and raking the stern of the French flagship by Montague Dawson

[wonder-worker]

Thinking about Elizabeth Woodville as a gothic heroine is making me go insane. She entered the story by overturning existing social structures, provoking both ire and fascination. She married into a dynasty doomed to eat itself alive. She was repeatedly associated with the supernatural, both in terms of love and death. Her life was shaped entirely by uncanny repetitions - two marriages, two widowhoods, two depositions, two flights to sanctuary, two ultimate reclamations - all paralleling and ricocheting off each other. Her plight after 1483 exposed the true rot at the heart of the monarchy - the trappings of royalty pulled away to reveal nothing, a never-ending cycle of betrayal and war, the price of power being the (literal) blood of children. She lived past the end of her family name, she lived past the end of her myth. She ended her life in a deeply anomalous position, half-in and half-out of royal society. She was both a haunting tragedy and the ultimate survivor who was finally free.

[filmap]

All of Us Strangers Andrew Haigh. 2023

Building Victory Plaza, East Village, London E15 2ER, UK See in map

See in imdb

[theworldatwar]

During the day children help to put up bunting and flags for the VE Day celebrations. Photo by Picture Post/Hulton Archive. In the evening St Paul’s Cathedral is illuminated on the night of VE Day, London, 8 May 1945. Photo: Daily Herald Archive.

[rairacrow]

Queens of England

[vox-anglosphere]

Happy St George's Day to my loyal friends & followers! Thank you all.

Some legends linger because they are more than legends.

[bow-tie-of-darkness]

UK hosting the Eurovision and acting as if they had won last year is kinda pissing me off.

[mia-seth-adventures]

HMS Victory, Portsmouth Naval Dockyard

[gremlins-hotel]

So idk how much you keep actual history in mind for hetalia thoughts but I wanted to ask:

How old do u think Alfred was when he fought for independence- and won.

Me and my friends have always imagined him as around 16 or so maybe 18 tops

like how unsettling would it have been to hear about some 16 year old that defeated a world superpower

and then hearing much later that that same “kid” (adult now) has introduced nuclear warfare like..

I’m not saying that if I was a country i would be scared but like. Yes I would be scared.

in modern day i tend to make alfred around the age of 25.

as for the revolution? i would say a physical appearance between 16-18 is a good benchmark. personally, i would probably say 17 or 18. he needs to be at least a teen is all i know. i remember seeing some ideas float around that he was still very much a child, which makes no sense to me. but here's a little background logic for you:

at youngest, alfred should be ~168 years old (jamestown, may 1607) by the time the military war starts (april 1775). he could also be ~190 (roanoke, 1585) or even ~210 (st. augustine, september 1565). i highly doubt the latter, but i did once see a former fan consider this spanish colonization of florida as his birth...

so regardless of whichever way you cut him, i would argue he's going to be anywhere from 170-200 years old as an entity. so you can piecemeal that how you like in terms of physical age. the revolution itself was a long process and its seeds were in many places that weren't military. the military component wasn't even necessarily a goal; maybe to some it was, but to many it was not. a large proportion of the trouble was creating and identifying with the label of "american" rather than "british" or "british american". (as for unified identity, you could look at something such as the Join, or Die cartoon as a positive argument towards the start of an "american" identity.)

alfred should be around an age when he could be apprenticed or in an institution such as a college. this kid was reading, learning, and getting into law and philosophy. if there was something he was curious about, he was going to find out more, whether you wanted him to or not. and, furthermore, that kid was going to use that knowledge.

[lightthewaybackhome]

[illustratus]

The Battle of Trafalgar: HMS 'Victory' Steering for the Enemy by Eduardo de Martino

[wonder-worker]

A.J Pollard’s biography on Edward IV was so cringe lol (generic; minor but frustrating inaccuracies; intensely judgmental at times and oddly dismissive at others while never considering the broader context; entirely diminished and trivialized Elizabeth Woodville as both queen and wife of his main subject in the name of "defending" her; created a false dichotomy between Edward and Henry VII’s styles of ruling and lauded the latter at the former’s expense even though Henry literally followed Edward’s example for the very things Pollard was criticizing Edward for; had a downright nonsensical and thoroughly misleading conclusion about Edward’s legacy & Richard’s usurpation that was based entirely on hindsight, Pollard's own assumptions, and the complete downplaying Richard’s agency and actions to emphasize what Pollard wrongly and misleadingly claimed were Edward's so-called 'failings', etc, etc)

I wanted to buy his book on Henry V but after reading this shitshow and the synopsis of that book, im guessing it's going to be 10x worse, so...no thanks

[ginerva-mollyweasley]

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[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1945 – In a radio broadcast, Churchill accuses De Valera’s government of frolicking with the Germans and Japanese.

In his Victory in Europe speech, Winston Churchill slams Éamon de Valera and his war-time policy. (To add fuel to an already bitter relationship, de Valera had not distinguished himself or Ireland’s reputation when he offered condolences to Germany on the death of Hitler.) “(By the dawn of 1941), The sense of envelopment, which might at any moment turn to strangulation, lay heavy upon us. We had…

[lindseybyrd]

Oh.....poor king George