For a master paper I am looking for quantitative data on strategic resource stockpiles in Nazi-Germany. (Specifically metals), preferably primary source material, but an in depth work of literature will suit me as well.
I've been looking for a while now, but so far no joy. Hoping someone here can point me in the correct direction.
I read English (Obivously) German and Dutch.

I believe he was at or near Kings Lynn so unless the geography has changed he didn't need to cross the Wash according to the map.

I know that scissors were invented as soon as metal working appeared, but there are plenty of societies that did not have metal working and yet they were never depicted by the explorers who contacted them with messy or long hair, I'm thinking of people in the Americas, the Mayans, the Aztecs, the Incas, but also the Polynesians, they had their own standards of beauty and elegance and they developed hairstyles accordingly... and they did that without scissors.

How did this happen?

We tend to think of Roman Republic transitioning into Roman Empire with Augustus, but how did contemporary Romans see this? Did they realize that the Republic was now over and done, or did they see it as just a temporary thing, expecting Republic to be revived when Augustus dies or steps down?

everything you find online seems to be largely focused on military history, but I'm interested in moving away from that particular aspect of history for a while and learning about cultures/politics/various civil rights movements for a while, are there any good youtube channels or websites you'd recommend that break things down simply so the average joe history buff could wrap their head around it (preferably reliable but not straight academic articles as they tend to be a pretty dense read)?

If I wish to pursue historical research and writing (not for insider journals or whatevz) without attending university for it, can you offer any advice?

So far, I have no problem finding relevant sources which seem not to have been collated together. There is work to be done. But I have a really hard time keeping track of things. I have found that there are programs like Zotero etc that manage citations. But how do you manage ideas? (I am *not* looking for a perfect 1 size fits all solution. Please share any personal and/or half baked thing that works for you.)

Is there any book on this subject? Podcast? Blog? Keyword search terms...?? I am totally lost.

Note: I do not wish to denigrate anyone's profession by suggesting that a person without your training can do it as well as you. I am hoping no one will be defensive. All industries contain a variety of workers, and they all have non-paid compatriots

- A person can spruce up their own home without being an architect or a skilled laborer

- A person can make a blog without being a web developer or a technician

- A person can grow beans without being a bio engineer or a farm worker

- A person can fuck without being a sexologist or a camgirl

I am looking to reno my home, write a blog, garden and make love. But with history.

Side question: On the subject of Amateur historians. What do you think? How can/has it been done well vs horrible?

Tribes had blacksmiths and thus weapons. I can understand how they forged them as it likely wouldn't have been that hard. But what I don't get is where they got their iron.

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Did the tribes have mines? Did they trade for them? I honestly have no idea and the internet isn't helping me. For context, I'm referring to around the time of Genghis Khan but not the Mongols specifically.

So in the modern day, university lectures usually have powerpoint slides and run on a specific schedule. You also have paper exams. But how did it work in medieval universities? How did lectures work without powerpoints? How did class schedules work when clocks didn't exist yet? And how were exams and essays written if paper was extremely expensive back then? Or were they not written at all with student assessment happening via different methods? Also, how stressful were medieval universities for students (ex. workload, assignments, exams) compared to universities today?

One of my history teachers the other day said something interesting. Under the feudal system, you received protection from some powerful person like a baron or a duke, but you had to work on their land. You would have a crappy and miserable life, and that was that. My question is, how did it get to that point to where everyone just accepted the fact that life would be terrible?

I read a book about the rise of 9/11 trutherism and other conspiratorial thinking, and in it the author mentions that Marshall McLuhan, the great Canadian social and media theorist, seems to have become transfixed by the notion of Freemasons operating at high levels behind the scenes - to the extent of declaring that the American Civil War was actually a secret war between two elements within Freemasonry that was whitewashed to be about something else.

All of this seems a bit incredible for a thinker with such clout. Is it true? How did he come to believe in things of this sort?

Almost all depictions and descriptions I see of kitchens (of at least moderately wealthy families with multiple-room houses) from the 1800's up to the early 20th century show them as rooms where the actual work of cooking is done but no entertaining or actual eating would have happened. By the mid 20th century and onwards they seem to have gotten bigger with more thought to their design as a place for gathering as a family or for entertaining.

Is this impression true and if so, how and why did this change come about?

My mother and I are learning about the Mongol siege of Caffa/Kaffa(?) and how people could escape the siege by boat because Caffa was a sea town, and we were wondering why the Mongols didn’t just...build a boat or two and besiege them from the seaside? And that got us wondering, did the Mongols ever have a navy, or use the navy of conquered peoples?

I came across some old pictures of spacecraft in a folder along with a photocopied hand with prints and a name of written on the palm.

The photos have labels on the back indicating what they are.

I cannot find them anywhere, only 2 have similar copies that I could find.

I will release the photos to a mod for proof, and the public if I’m allowed to do so.

Any info on these pics, how to preserve/care for them, and what do I do with them!?

Thanks.

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I recently read Jordan and Walsh’s “White Cargo,” which I found to be quite compelling until I read a couple pretty devastating critiques that debunked most of its central claims. So what book would have quality scholarship on the topic of white servants, both in terms of day-to-day life and the significance of the enterprise?