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I.5.4 How will anything ever be decided by all these meetings?

Anarchists have little doubt that the confederal structure will be an efficient means of decision making and will not be bogged down in endless meetings. We have various reasons for thinking this. After all, as Murray Bookchin once noted, ”[h]istory does provide us with a number of working examples of forms that are largely libertarian. It also provides us with examples of confederations and leagues that made the co-ordination of self-governing communities feasible without impinging on their autonomy and freedom.” [The Ecology of Freedom, p. 436]

Firstly, we doubt that a free society will spend all its time in assemblies or organising confederal conferences. Certain questions are more important than others and few anarchists desire to spend all their time in meetings. The aim of a free society is to allow individuals to express their desires and wants freely — they cannot do that if they are continually at meetings (or preparing for them). So while communal and confederal assemblies will play an important role in a free society, do not think that they will be occurring all the time or that anarchists desire to make meetings the focal point of individual life. Far from it!

Thus communal assemblies may occur, say, once a week, or fortnightly or monthly in order to discuss truly important issues. There would be no real desire to meet continuously to discuss every issue under the sun and few people would tolerate this occurring. This would mean that such meetings would current regularly and when important issues needed to be discussed, not continuously (although, if required, continuous assembly or daily meetings may have to be organised in emergency situations but this would be rare). Nor is it expected that everyone will attend every meeting for ”[w]hat is decisive, here, is the principle itself: the freedom of the individual to participate, not the compulsive need to do so.” [Op. Cit., p. 435] This suggests that meetings will be attended by those with a specific interest in an issue being discussed and so would be focused as a result.

Secondly, it is extremely doubtful that a free people would desire waste vast amounts of time at such meetings. While important and essential, communal and confederal meetings would be functional in the extreme and not forums for hot air. It would be the case that those involved in such meetings would quickly make their feelings known to time wasters and those who like the sound of their own voices. Thus Cornelius Castoriadis:

“It might be claimed that the problem of numbers remains and that people never would be able to express themselves in a reasonable amount of time. This is not a valid argument. There would rarely be an assembly over twenty people where everyone would want to speak, for the very good reason that when there is something to be decided upon there are not an infinite number of options or an infinite number of arguments. In unhampered rank-and-file workers’ gatherings (convened, for instance, to decide on a strike) there have never been ‘too many’ speeches. The two or three fundamental opinions having been voiced, and various arguments exchanged, a decision is soon reached. “The length of speeches, moreover, often varies inversely with the weight of their content. Russian leaders sometimes talk on for four hours at Party Congresses without saying anything … For an account of the laconicism of revolutionary assemblies, see Trotsky’s account of the Petrograd soviet of 1905 — or accounts of the meetings of factory representatives in Budapest in 1956.” [Political and Social Writings, vol. 2, pp. 144–5]

As we shall see below, this was definitely the case during the Spanish Revolution as well.

Thirdly, as these assemblies and congresses are concerned purely with joint activity and co-ordination. Different associations and syndicates have a functional need for co-operation and so would meet more regularly and take action on practical activity which affects a specific section of a community or group of communities. Not every issue that a member of a community is interested in is necessarily best discussed at a meeting of all members of a community or at a confederal conference. As Herbert Read suggested, anarchism “proposes to liquidate the bureaucracy first by federal devolution” and so “hands over to the syndicates all … administrative functions” related to such things as “transport, and distribution, health and education.” [Anarchy and Order, p. 101] Such issues will be mainly discussed in the syndicates involved and so community discussion would be focused on important issues and themes of general policy rather than the specific and detailed laws discussed and implemented by politicians who know nothing about the issues or industries at hand.

By reducing conferences to functional bodies based on concrete issues, the problems of endless discussions can be reduced, if not totally eliminated. In addition, as functional groups would exist outside of these communal confederations (for example, industrial collectives would organise conferences about their industry with invited participants from consumer groups), there would be a limited agenda in most communal get-togethers.

In other words, communal assemblies and conferences will have specific, well defined agendas, and so there is little danger of “politics” (for want of a better word!) taking up everyone’s time. Hence, far from discussing abstract laws and pointless motions on everything under the sun and on which no one actually knows much about, the issues discussed in these conferences will be on specific issues which are important to those involved. In addition, the standard procedure may be to elect a sub-group to investigate an issue and report back at a later stage with recommendations. The conference can change, accept, or reject any proposals. As Kropotkin argued, anarchy would be based on “free agreement, by exchange of letters and proposals, and by congresses at which delegates met to discuss well specified points, and to come to an agreement about them, but not to make laws. After the congress was over, the delegates [would return] … not with a law, but with the draft of a contract to be accepted or rejected.” [Conquest of Bread, p. 131]

Is this system fantasy? Given that such a system has existed and worked at various times, we can safely argue that it is not. Obviously we cannot cover every example, so we point to just two — revolutionary Paris and Spain.

As Murray Bookchin points out, Paris “in the late eighteenth century was, by the standards of that time, one of the largest and economically most complex cities in Europe: its population approximated a million people … Yet in 1793, at the height of the French Revolution, the city was managed institutionally almost entirely by [48] citizen assemblies… and its affairs were co-ordinated by the Commune ... and often, in fact, by the assemblies themselves, or sections as they were called, which established their own interconnections without recourse to the Commune.” [“Transition to the Ecological Society”, pp. 92–105, Society and Nature, no. 3, p. 96]

Here is his account of how communal self-government worked in practice:

“What, then, were these little-know forty-eight sections of Paris … How were they organised? And how did they function? “Ideologically, the sectionnaires (as their members were called) believed primarily in sovereignty of the people. This concept of popular sovereignty, as Albert Soboul observes, was for them ‘not an abstraction, but the concrete reality of the people united in sectional assemblies and exercising all their rights.’ It was in their eyes an inalienable right, or, as the section de la Cite declared in November 1792, ‘every man who assumes to have sovereignty will be regarded as a tyrant, usurper of public liberty and worthy of death.’ “Sovereignty, in effect, was to be enjoyed by all citizens, not pre-empted by ‘representatives’ … The radical democrats of 1793 thus assumed that every adult was, to one degree or another, competent to participate in management public affairs. Thus, each section … was structured around a face-to-face democracy: basically a general assembly of the people that formed the most important deliberative body of a section, and served as the incarnation of popular power in a given part of the city … each elected six deputies to the Commune, presumably for the purpose merely of co-ordinating all the sections in the city of Paris. “Each section also had its own various administrative committees, whose members were also recruited from the general assembly.” [The Third Revolution, vol. 1, p. 319]

Little wonder Kropotkin argued that these “sections” showed “the principles of anarchism … had their origin, not in theoretical speculations, but in the deeds of the Great French Revolution” [The Great French Revolution, vol. 1, p. 204]

Communal self-government was also practised, and on a far wider scale, in revolutionary Spain where workers and peasants formed communes and federations of communes (see section I.8 for fuller details). Gaston Leval summarised the experience:

“There was, in the organisation set in motion by the Spanish Revolution and by the libertarian movement, which was its mainspring, a structuring from the bottom to the top, which corresponds to a real federation and true democracy … the controlling and co-ordinating Comites, clearly indispensable, do not go outside the organisation that has chosen them, they remain in their midst, always controllable by and accessible to the members. If any individuals contradict by their actions their mandates, it is possible to call them to order, to reprimand them, to replace them. It is only by and in such a system that the ‘majority lays down the law.’ “The syndical assemblies were the expression and the practice of libertarian democracy, a democracy having nothing in common with the democracy of Athens where the citizens discussed and disputed for days on end on the Agora; where factions, clan rivalries, ambitions, personalities conflicted, where, in view of the social inequalities precious time was lost in interminable wrangles … “Normally those periodic meetings would not last more than a few hours. They dealt with concrete, precise subjects concretely and precisely. And all who had something to say could express themselves. The Comite presented the new problems that had arisen since the previous assembly, the results obtained by the application of such and such a resolution . .. relations with other syndicates, production returns from the various workshops or factories. All this was the subject of reports and discussion. Then the assembly would nominate the commissions, the members of these commissions discussed between themselves what solutions to adopt, if there was disagreement, a majority report and a minority report would be prepared. “This took place in all the syndicates throughout Spain, in all trades and all industries, in assemblies which, in Barcelona, from the very beginnings of our movement brought together hundreds or thousands of workers depending on the strength of the organisations. So much so that the awareness of the duties, responsibilities of each spread all the time to a determining and decisive degree … “The practice of this democracy also extended to the agricultural regions … the decision to nominate a local management Comite for the villages was taken by general meetings of the inhabitants of villages, how the delegates in the different essential tasks which demanded an indispensable co-ordination of activities were proposed and elected by the whole assembled population. But it is worth adding and underlining that in all the collectivised villages and all the partially collectivised villages, in the 400 Collectives in Aragon, in the 900 in the Levante region, in the 300 in the Castilian region, to mention only the large groupings … the population was called together weekly, fortnightly or monthly and kept fully informed of everything concerning the commonweal. “This writer was present at a number of these assemblies in Aragon, where the reports on the various questions making up the agenda allowed the inhabitants to know, to so understand, and to feel so mentally integrated in society, to so participate in the management of public affairs, in the responsibilities, that the recriminations, the tensions which always occur when the power of decision is entrusted to a few individuals, be they democratically elected without the possibility of objecting, did not happen there. The assemblies were public, the objections, the proposals publicly discussed, everybody being free, as in the syndical assemblies, to participate in the discussions, to criticise, propose, etc. Democracy extended to the whole of social life.” [Collectives in the Spanish Revolution, pp. 205–7]

These collectives organised federations embracing thousands of communes and workplaces, whole branches of industry, hundreds of thousands of people and whole regions of Spain. As such, it was a striking confirmation of Proudhon’s argument that under federalism “the sovereignty of the contracting parties … serves as a positive guarantee of the liberty of … communes and individuals. So, no longer do we have the abstraction of people’s sovereignty … but an effective sovereignty of the labouring masses.” The “labouring masses are actually, positively and effectively sovereign: how could they not be when the economic organism — labour, capital, property and assets — belongs to them entirely … ?” [Anarchism, vol. 1, Robert Graham (ed.), p. 75]

In other words, it is possible. It has worked. With the massive improvements in communication technology it is even more viable than before. Whether or not we reach such a self-managed society depends on whether we desire to be free or not.

[isadomna]

Katherine (who was called Catalina in her native land), born on the night of 15-16 December 1485 in the palace of the Archbishop of Toledo at Alcala de Henares, in the midst of war. The Queen had been in the saddle all day, and rose from her bed the day after the birth to go back on the march, consigning her youngest daughter to the care of nurses. Nevertheless, she cared deeply for all her children, and personally supervised their education. They, in turn, all loved and respected her, especially Katherine, who grew up to be the most like her in looks and character.

Alison Weir, The Six Wives of Henry VIII

Isabel and Fernando’s children received a rigorous education in an intellectual milieu where literacy was expected and cultural patronage the norm. Household accounts show that Isabel carefully selected and compensated her children’s tutors. Isabel’s servants, Andrés Miranda, a Dominican at the monastery of Santo Domingo (Burgos) and Beatriz Galindo (la Latina, “the Latinist”), were important in educating the children. At age six, Catalina began her studies with the Geraldino brothers. Alessandro accompanied Catalina to England in 1501, served as her confessor, and wrote De eruditione nobelium puellarum (On the Education of Noble Girls, 1501), at Isabel’s request. At age eleven, Catalina owned a breviary. At age twelve she was expected to exercise some discretion and had learned to supervise servants. Her studies included philosophy, literature, and religion, and music (she could play the clavichord and harp). She could speak French, English, and German in addition to Castilian and Latin, prompting Beatriz Galindo to note that Catalina surpassed her mother in Latin learning. She studied late medieval ideas on virtue, justice, and proper queenly behavior and Christianized versions of Classical philosophy and natural science concerning medical understandings of the differences between the sexes. She would have read, or known of, works that dealt with the education of women such as Juan Rodriquez de la Camara’s El triunfo de las donas (The Triumph of Women, 1443), Alvaro de Luna’s El libro de las virtuosas y claras mugeres (The Book of Virtuous and Famous Women, 1446), Fray Martín Alonso de Córdoba’s Jardín de la nobles doncellas (The Garden of Noble Maidens, 1468), and Francesc Eiximenis’s manual for female instruction, the Carro de las donas (The Carriage of Women, 15th century), that may have been brought to court by Beatriz Galindo. It is also likely that she read or knew of Juan de Flores’s Grisel and Mirabella, The Slander against Women, and The Defense of Ladies against Slanderers, works in the querelle des femmes genre that were dedicated to an unnamed female reader who may well have been Isabel. 

THERESA M. EARENFIGHT,  RAISING INFANTA CATALINA DE ARAGÓN TO BE CATHERINE, QUEEN OF ENGLAND

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Beautiful couple from Spain in 1926! They are the ancestors of @jaimegnhr his great grandparents! Do you known their names? 😍😍 ❤️ Your great grandma has small similarities with the actress Claire Foy. 😊😊 #history #historia #história #storia #istoria #histoire #historie #geschichte #historyinpictures #historyinphotos #vintage #istorie #photooftheday #photo #beauty #Tarih #fashionhistory #fashion #spain #spanish #fashionhistory #fashion #20thcenturyfashion #glamour #20thcentury #1900s #1920s #españa #couple #family #love #lovely https://www.instagram.com/p/B9otsBuHZO8/?igshid=1go2ecl6kjaxh

[ctl-yuejie]

Do you have any recommendations for wlw dramas?? P. S. I love your blog! C:

aww, you are too cute! also: perfect timing, I was just ranting with @earthpodd​ about having no wlw shows to watch.

i’ll just give you the shows I’ve watched and would recommend, just note that there sadly is a lack of well-written and interesting wlw shows in general, even more so if I am solely considering the main characters or the main storyline. i don’t include fetishizing content, shows that bury their gays and those that have incest storylines (side-eyes Japan hard).

the sad reality is that most wlw content can only be found in super dramatic or artistic movies, often made by men. there are some wonderful exceptions (listed below) and there are promising things announced for after 2019, but not as many series.

i usually prefer asian series because they feel like elaborate movies (not a fan of too many seasons) and i am always on the look out for wlw content that’s not only “just” a romcom, but alas, there’s not much to choose from. (give me space lesbians with a solid adventure storyline! give me bi women as main characters in fantasy epics!)

(i also haven’t watched some popular shows like “The L Word” so they are missing from this list -> if anyone has further suggestions feel free to add to this list in the comments!)

going to sort them after my sapphic meter: the more wlw romance and the more important the sexuality of the main character for the story, the higher it is on this list!

Gentleman Jack (2019, HBO, USA/GB)  - Historical Dramaperiod drama based on the real life of Anne Lister, lesbian and industrialist. I haven’t finished this yet but I live for the main character, she is a badass and she and her love interest are everything together. this show is also super intense, with all the conflicts that arise when male landowners and other industrialists want to get a piece of her land.

EDIT: finished it and it is brilliant!!

Sense8 (2015-2018, Netflix, USA) - Sci-Fii think most people have heard of this so i don’t think i need to write much about the plot. finally some sci-fi content with an unusual amount of queer main characters. netflix was a dick to this series but it was great and something different.

Skam España (2018 -, Moviestar+, Spain) - Teen Dramathis is the spanish adaptation of the norwegian tv series skam. innovative in its format it tells the daily life of teenagers in short clips and on social media accounts. the third season’s main story focuses on two girls falling in love and it is a GOOD. they tackle some serious issues but overall this is more of a school/coming of age romance. (note that the other adaptations and the og don’t feature a wlw couple in the main story)

Killing Eve (2018 -, BBC America, UK) - Spy Thrillerdespite horrifying killings that need investigating this series, genre typically, focusses on the relationship of its two main characters. we follow MI6 agent eve polastri (sandra oh) on her hunt for assassin villanelle (jodie comer), who takes an unsettling liking to her. we don’t know their sexualities but villanelle is canonically not straight and for eve, we have to wait and see. they do have insane chemistry and sexual tension which is also very important for the plot. and fiona shaw (actual lesbian) is in this so win-win for representation. the acting is superb.

Fleabag (2016 - 2019, Amazon, UK) - Drama Comedythe stories centers around fleabag, an angry, unstable, and sexually insatiable woman. great use of the fourth wall. even though the main love interests are male, fleabag is bi and it plays an important role in the story. the writing is so on point this series is pure perfection. phoebe waller-bridge is super attractive and a scarily relatable mess as fleabag. fantastic depiction of trauma and how people deal with it while being funny af. has fiona shaw (actual lesbian) and andrew scott (actual gay) in it, so win-win-win for representation. also: olivia colman is in it. 

Brooklyn 99  (2013 -, NBC, USA) - Sit Commost people are aware of this brilliant sit com which features an amazing bi main character. it’s an ensemble cast so it counts.

Derry Girls (2018 -, Channel 4, UK) - Sit Comset during the Troubles in northern ireland the series follows a group of catholic school girls (plus their lovely male english rose) on their adventures. there’s a wee lesbian in the ensemble cast and she’s great and important.

Diary of Tootsies (2016-2017, GMM 25, Thailand) - Comedythe show follows 4 friends, 3 gay drag queens and a lesbian with terrible taste in women, on their search for love. this show is bonkers but has a super satisfying lesbian storyline

The Good Place (2016 -, NBC, USA) - Sit Com -> disclaimer: I haven’t seen the newest season so idk how heavily the bisexual part features in itthis show has a super interesting premise and focuses more on philosophical questions. nevertheless it has a bi main character and some wlw content.

honorary mentions (under the cut)

these are not ranked, just in the order they popped into my mind

Legend of Korra (2012-2014, Nickelodeon, USA)animated series so i didn’t include it on the main list but still a good story with a wlw storyline that took everyone by surprise. 

Colette (2018, USA / UK) - Historical Dramabased on the life of the french novelist of the same name it is a great movie about feminism and emancipation. keira knightly is pure bisexual perfection in this and has multiple romances with women, including a fabulous butch lesbian.

Queer as Folk (2000-2005, Showtime, USA / Canada) - Dramaputting this here because the lesbian couple was more of a side couple. still a good series this somehow manages to be bold in 2019, even though it’s old. the lesbian couple get a tad more disappointing over the seasons.

Atomic Blonde (2017, USA) - Action Spy Thrillerthe plot is absolute nonsense and the production value is sometimes questionable. but it has charlize theron beating up people with great fight choreography and she makes out with female french spies. charlize theron puts the wlw in every scene of this movie.

The Handmaiden (2016, South Korea) - Period Dramasuper interesting plot, very enjoyable overall, i had some problems with the male gaze in this though

In Between (2016, Israel / France)  - Dramavery moving film about three Palestinian women sharing a flat in tel aviv. the desire for personal and sexual freedom is the center piece of this movie and allows an unusual insight into the progressive Palestinian underground scene.

Cloudburst (2011, Canada / USA) - Comedy Dramaabout a senior lesbian couple that decides to elope to Canada to get married, after one of them gets put into a nursing home by her granddaughter. the last 12 minutes are horrible (mostly the writing) but everything before that is absolutely great. i live for badass grandmothers in love. 

Boss in Love (2018, South Korea) - RomComsuper cute short movie with some great sex positivity.

Don’t Say Sorry (2018, South Korea) - Romancevery beautiful short movie about discovering one’s sexuality and first love.

The Favourite (2018, UK / Ireland / USA) - Black Comedyolivia colman as pitiful queen anne and rachel weisz and emma stone playing two cousins competing for her favour. absolutely hysterical, wonderfully shot and very gay. rachel weisz is so attractive in male clothes i don’t know what to do with myself. 

iStories L (2018, Thailand)actually filmed as a commercial this lesbian short film is wonderful and has a great aesthetic. its about an assistant producer helping the main actress with her lines and developing feelings for her in the process.

last but not least: there’s some movies that I know are good & important but haven’t watched yet such as Rafiki (Kenya), Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (India) etc.

the Korean short movies are on vimeo, the Thai stuff has official uploads on youtube, and with the rest google should help. didn’t include any german wlw even though there is a bunch, because I have yet to find something that really satisfies me (don’t get me started on tv series).

[ajora]

Cultural mapping nonsense re: Orbital Dynamics and FFV fics blabbing overall

Tycoon: I get a Hellenistic feel from it, especially regarding Alexander (Macedonian), Lenna (a variant of Helen), and Sarisa (a kind of spear, also Macedonian). So, for Tycoon’s underworld and Faris’ childhood tutor in crime, I’ll probably go with a variation on Podana for its cant. Fun fact: I named Grandpa Tycoon after an earlier Greek conqueror of some minor renown. 

Carwen: Yeah so at some point I got a non-English British vibe from it and apparently mostly I go with Scottish slang for my Carwen character, Merrick. 

Tule, Walse, Crescent Island: Honestly up in the air at this point, but with Grandpa Tycoon’s conquest thing going on, I’m leaning Turkish for Tule and Frankish/Spanish for Walse. 

Jacole: At some point while writing the original fic 20+ years ago, I’d decided that Jacole was my Middle East (Faris being an Arabic name, plus Jacole’s proximity to the Ancient Pyramid) on account of ancient nearby ruins all around it and it sort of stuck there. 

Istory: This was my default fantasy-Japan in the original fic and is so now--Benjiro and his uncle Renji came from there. 

I never really got around to mapping for Galuf’s world

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@samuel_ben_ferreira shared a photo of his grandfather and the #loveyourancestors movement its alive! His grandfather is sitting in the middle. He was a portuguese born in Spain. When the Spanish Civil war started he exiled to a portuguese village called Amareleja close to the border with Spain. @samuel_ben_ferreira has an amazing ancestry. His grandfather was a son of Jewish woman and unfortunately all the family was separated because of the civil war. Eventually he met @samuel_ben_ferreira 's grandmother and they created a family together in Barrancos, another village of Portugal. Amazing how @samuel_ben_ferreira has a wonderful and alive history to tell to his next generation. ❤️❤️❤️A life that I believe wasn't easy but they tried to survive with love and friendship as we see in this photograph from the Spanish Civil War era (1936-1939). Be proud of your ancestors, they all fought and because of them You are here today! Isn't that amazing?? ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👏👏👏 Thank you again @samuel_ben_ferreira 🙏🙏🙏🙏 be proud! You are truly Iberian. XD you are not only Spanish but also portuguese! Be proud of your ancestry, it's something wonderful that we have! #history #historia #história #storia #istoria #histoire #historie #wartime #spain #spanish #geschichte #istorie #photooftheday #photo #photograph #friends #espana #spanishcivilwar #1930s #vintage #war #fashion #fashionhistory #family #ancestry #antique #ancestors #love #gratitude https://www.instagram.com/p/B82Bz7MHj94/?igshid=o6cyag0xv3pd

[historylovers]

The beautiful grandmother of @esnabia She told me that her pretty grandmother was born in Granada, Spain!! And I think that in photo it's written: It will always be your day! How beautiful it's that?❤️ Thank you so much @esnabia for sent me the photo of your grandma! She was Bella! And Elegant without any doubt👏❤️ congratulations for your ancestry! #history #historia #história #storia #istoria #histoire #historie #vintage #antique #antiquephoto #photo #photooftheday #ancestors #ancestry #heritage #geschichte #istorie #Tarih #spain #spanish #granada #grandma #loveyourancestors #love #beauty #beautiful #family #fashionhistory #1900s #20thcentury (em Granada, España) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9epEzyHNlO/?igshid=165jr15chs295

[historylovers]

Hi guys, today I came here to show you a photo of @begy_dlp ❤️ This beautiful couple are her grandparents Ramona e Carlos in the day of their wedding! She was 20 years old and he was 21. This photo was taken in 1922 or 23 at Madrid, Spain. Your grandmother was so beautiful! #history #historia #história #storia #istoria #histoire #historie #vintage #antique #antiquephoto #photo #photooftheday #ancestors #ancestry #heritage #geschichte #istorie #Tarih #family #1920s #madrid #spain #spanish #fashionhistory #fashion #20thcenturyfashion #wedding #loveyourancestors #love #grandparents https://www.instagram.com/p/B91__8oHZ8x/?igshid=16jkvhokjbupy

[historylovers]

Another photo of the movement #loveyourancestors 🙏❤️ This beautiful woman is the great grandmother of @kenylunatic who was called Mamá Rosario. She was known for being a very nice and big heart woman. She was also very beautiful as you can see in the photograph taken in Nido Cuervo, a neighborhood from Gáldar, Spain, 1940s. Its amazing how you all are so proud of your ancestors as I am Its beautiful, it's inspiring and makes me feel like my heart is going to explode from the love we all feeling from our ancestors. ❤️❤️ #history #historia #história #storia #istoria #histoire #historie #vintage #1940s #20thcentury #20thcenturyfashion #spain #spanish #antique #antiquephoto #photo #past #photooftheday #geschichte #istorie #galdar #fashionhistory #fashion #1900s #love #ancestors #ancestry #heritage #proud Source: @kenylunatic 🙏❤️🙏 Thank you for your photo. It's amazing. Be thankful for your ancestry It's because of them. That we are here♥️ (em Gáldar, Canarias, Spain) https://www.instagram.com/p/B87Jt1Ln6AP/?igshid=110fb4ksz6flb

[historylovers]

This photograph its amazing! I found it on Pinterest! These two hardworking women are from coruña, Spain and they are carrying salt with her heads, May, 21 1917. Photographer: Georges Chevalier When I see woman like them, I remember the washers. The washers were women who went almost everyday washed their family's clothes in the river or in some tank with water. Source: http://elpaisajecontemporaneo.blogspot.com/2018/03/coleccion-fotografica-online-del-museo.html?m=1 #history #historia #história #storia #istoria #histoire #historie #1917 #may #antique #antiquephoto #photo #photooftheday #historyinpictures #historyinphotos #coruña #spain #spanish #españa #salt #workers #women #geschichte #istorie #pic #old #colorizedphoto #past #memory #fashionhistory https://www.instagram.com/p/B9pornkHWB0/?igshid=yqc46yib6hj6

[historylovers]

@veroky_kaleydoscope sent me beautiful photographs of her Spanish grandparents! First photo: Her grandmother Maruja with 16 years in 1959. @veroky_kaleydoscope said : "I miss her very much. For me she was the most beautiful woman in the world." I agree with you! Your grandma was Bella! ❤️❤️ Second photo: Maruja and Pepe during their marriage in 1964. Her grandpa was 20 years old and Maruja was 21 years old. When they married Pepe was still underage during the Spanish rules and veroky great grandpa signe to let his son to marry Maruja. @veroky_kaleydoscope said:" They emigrated to France in search of something better and years later they decided to return to Valencia, the city where we are from. 5 children, 7 grandchildren of whom I am the oldest and over 50 years married. An example of love, strength and patience." without any doubt they passed good things to the next generation! I believe their love is still on and passing to you @veroky_kaleydoscope You are a very lucky woman for having an amazing example of love! Gracias por tu partilha ❤️❤️🙏❤️❤️ #history #historia #história #storia #istoria #histoire #historie #vintage #antique #antiquephoto #photo #photooftheday #ancestors #ancestry #heritage #geschichte #istorie #Tarih #family #1950s #1960s #spain #spanish #valencia #marriage #love #loveyourancestors #lovely #historylovers #historyinpictures (em Valencia) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9fCyfaH1YC/?igshid=ogflfewaj3iu

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One of the photos that @samuel_ben_ferreira sent me. This one called my attention! This women are from Granada and from the mountain of Alpujarras( a historical place of Andalucia from the south Spain) This photo can be from the beginning of 1900s(not sure) I looked for a source but I couldn't find it. This women are know for their power and unique culture ❤️ #history #historia #história #storia #istoria #histoire #historie #edwardian #edwardians #edwardianstyle #fashion #fashionhistory #1900s #20thcentury #women #woman #moda #modahistórica #spain #spanish #geschichte #istorie #photooftheday #photo #beauty #Tarih #historyinpictures #alpujarras #andalucia #granada Thank you @samuel_ben_ferreira 🙏 I will use more photos to share with the world 🌎❤️🌍 (em Granada, España) https://www.instagram.com/p/B81_pmmnttc/?igshid=wy3adp0vichx