#historical place

[ecoharbor]

📍Yamagata, Japan 🇯🇵

[asiasaint]

Prasat Hin Phimai (Phimai Historical Park) pre-Angkor Wat architecture in Thailand.

[thewolfnessphotography]

Schloss Hohenschwangau

Schwangau. Bavaria. Germany

[harminder]

⛪️ Primatial Cathedral of Tarragona 🇪🇸

[daisywords]

One of my biggest nitpicks in fiction concerns the feeding of babies. Mothers dying during/shortly after childbirth or the baby being separated form the mother shortly after birth is pretty common in fiction. It is/was also common enough in real life, which is why I think a lot of writers/readers don't think too hard about this. however. Historically, the only reason the vast majority of babies survived being separated from their mother was because there was at least one other woman around to breastfeed them. Before modern formula, yes, people did use other substitutes, but they were rarely, if ever, nutritionally sufficient.

Newborns can't eat adult food. They can't really survive on animal milk. If your story takes place in a world before/without formula, a baby separated from its mother is going to either be nursed by someone else, or starve.

It doesn't have to be a huge plot point, but idk at least don't explicitly describe the situation as excluding the possibility of a wetnurse. "The father or the great grandmother or the neighbor man or the older sibling took and raised the baby completely alone in a cave for a year." Nope. That baby is dead I'm sorry. "The baby was kidnapped shortly after birth by a wizard and hidden away in a secret tower" um quick question was the wizard lactating? "The mother refused to see or touch her child after birth so the baby was left to the care of the ailing grandfather" the grandfather who made the necessary arrangements with women in the neighborhood, right? right? OR THAT GREAT OFFENDER "A newborn baby was left on the doorstep and they brought it in and took care of it no issues" What Are You Going to Feed That Baby. Hello?

Like. It's not impossible, but arrangements are going to have to be made. There are some logistics.

[spokanefavs]

Spokane Preservation Advocates has launched a new fund to contribute to preserving non-profit buildings, such as churches and schools, by sponsoring their application to the Spokane Register of Historical Places.

The fund will cover the sponsorship and consultation fees for eligible locations that are often overlooked as candidates for the Register due to their pre-existing tax exemption.

See more about the fund.

[escapismsworld]

📍Austrian National Library, Vienna, Austria

[the-home]

Terretts Place

[brcreative061]

Kykuit - The Rockefeller Estate

[die-rosastrasse]

Montmartre Cemetery 🕊️

Paris, France, 24 VIII 2023

[orphicliteraryclub]

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[claircaelis]

The vibrant colours and intricate patterns of Portuguese tiles.

Aveiro, 2024.

[chechula]

Sketch for this was in my diary for 6 years. That boy was just so sure that America was a fantasy land so for a moment I also believed him ♥

[harminder]

🌅 View of the Tarragona Amphitheater 🇪🇸

[marzipanandminutiae]

Pour one out for women who lived through at least part of the Victorian and Edwardian eras and then had to wear 1920s clothing because keeping relatively current was an aspect of respectability

Like yeah sure, some found it fun and dived in with gusto. Some had not enjoyed the previous decades and liked this one. Good for them

But imagine having lived with AND liked actually supportive corsets, and elegant lines that acknowledged things like Breasts and Hips, and beautiful decoration, and hairstyles where you could learn one go-to and do it every day with minimal professional help (unless you were rich)

And then being told “oh sorry now you have to look like a barrel unless you want to bind your breasts and develop an eating disorder. we call this a corset still but it is basically proto-Spanx. Please have the head of a Lego minifig, hair-wise; you’ll have to pay for regular hairdresser visits if you want the MOST socially celebrated iteration thereof. Here is a plastic geometric bangle; have fun”

(Obviously that’s highly subjective and non-comprehensive but it WAS a huge switch to almost the opposite of what came before the late 1910s-ish. And if you happened to prefer that Before…)

God I would start Murdering

[galina]

An unassuming, almost missable entrance to The Rookery, a historic east London hotel, just a brass name plate and a small buzzer