Once Irish monasteries started growing to thousands of inhabitants, (laypeople and monks), and became important centres of learning, commerce and administration in the 700s Irish kings began to build their households there instead of on isolated fortified settlements. Is there any information on what a king's house would have looked like? I'm presuming they lived in something more grandiose than the common round house or farmstead at the time?

It just struck me randomly today as being a very odd phrase as of course dead people aren't rolling anywhere in their coffins.

An enormity of black musicians during the 1960s and '70s expressed radical views. Was this true of the '30s as well? How did the blues circuit overlap with the Southern communist movement?

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I've never really been interested in Polynesian history but I've kind of hooked an eye for it recently, but this question lingers in my mind. And if they did trade with these civilizations, when and how much?

To clarify, I'm not talking about any laws that would prohibit people from sharing classified information, but rather publicly questioning the morals of their respective government or the course the war is taking. In Germany speaking out against the regime or the war effort was harshly punished as was the case with the White Rose resistance group. So I'm wondering, have there been any similar cases within other parties of the war, specifically the western allies?

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A lot of work has been done on the historical Jesus, and while there are many diverging views on the goals of Jesus, I feel like they're all much more grounded and as equally plausible. Many historians see him either as an apocalyptic prophet or as a social reformer who pushed for a more liberal view of Judaism, or possibly a little bit of both. No doubt he was sincere about himself and what he was trying to do. His followers were also very sincere about him, they were so devoted they even claimed to see him risen from the dead and died for this belief. As for Muhammad, not much has been said about him in western scholarship. Who exactly was the man? How reliable are Islamic sources about his life? And most of all, how sincere was he in his belief? Why would he suddenly claim to be getting "revelations" from God? What was the context behind this? What was he really experiencing? He never preformed a direct "miracle" like Jesus is said to have done; none of his other followers received revelations or experienced similar things as he did. Not even Jesus claimed to be getting divine revelations in the same way Muhammad claimed he was.

When did male fashion change from powder wigs and waistcoats & breeches to suits and cuffs?

Related to the whole twitter thing that's been rooting around reddit, sorta.

Anyway, (oh boy) Crash Course World History claims that Empires by design (or maybe its by their nature, I forgot the exact wording and the episode) were extremely diverse. I can believe that, given how large some empires were, but what I'd like to see is some historical evidence of that. I can think of a few things off the top of my head, but I'm no historian, so I'd like to hear it from people who actually know what they're talking about.

Thanks in advance.

Outside of Joseph II and Leopold II, who wanted to see how events would play out before taking any action and didn't live to see the end of the French monarchy in 1792, were there any other members of the Austrian Habsburgs who tried to help Marie Antoinette in some capacity?

Although Francis II was reported to have been indifferent to Marie Antoinette, was there any pressure from his surviving aunts and uncles to help her and her family? In addition, were there other members who wanted to save her? And did they make an effort to do so? If not, what was stopping them?

I am trying to write a short story involving someone in Boudicas army during her uprising and the attack on Camulodunum. But i cant find any sources on the typesw of names they would use for their sons and daughters. I would like to have a source to go on to give my characters more accurate names. :)

I recently read a Lincoln quote from the house divided speech on the Dred Scott case wikipedia.

"Put this and that together, and we have another nice little niche, which we may, ere long, see filled with another Supreme Court decision, declaring that the Constitution of the United States does not permit a State to exclude slavery from its limits ... We shall lie down pleasantly dreaming that the people of Missouri are on the verge of making their State free, and we shall awake to the reality instead, that the Supreme Court has made Illinois a slave State."

So this seems to me to be a states rights argument. That they had to protect their right to not have slavery against an overbearing federal government imposing slavery on them.

So, How important to the republican party thinking was the idea that the north was protecting a state's right to block slavery in the lead up to the secession crisis? Wouldnt this be a separate debate from the spreading of slavery into the territories ?

I'm assuming that the Mongols didn't have agriculture and that they had wheat as a staple food based on current cuisines in the region.

Where did they get them from? Did they trade for them? How much did vegetables play a part in their diet?