Christopher Barker (and Richard Jugge before him) put out a lot of edicts that start with "By the Queenes Commaundement" and touch on all sorts of things, particularly public health measures around preventing the plague.

In 1578, for instance, Barker's press puts out Orders thought meete, which lists a bunch of orders for city administrators, then a bunch of plague remedies for physicians. Would the poorer people ever see these Orders, or would they rely on city officials and physicians to disseminate the information?

During the outbreak of 1592-3, multiple documents are printed on restricting access to the court, or adjourning the legal term and moving the court away from London due to widespread contagion. In this example, where would this document be posted? Would there be checkpoints two miles outside the court with a copy of this? Would churches or marketplaces display them? Or are they explicitly for city administrators, who then pass the information down to the people?

If they were posted someplace, the big question is: could everyone read the document? Or would they require the use of someone to explain it to them?

Is there anywhere to find the declaration of emancipation and declaration of independence for Trinidad & Tobago?

I've read this on a history blog as a random factoid and I wonder what sources support this and what was the culture of medieval English bathhouses like?

Side question I guess is whether they were treated differently than other very rich people.

Was the upper class of the African provinces ethnically Roman, or did they allow local leaders to become magistrates and such? How much intermingling was there between Romans who settled in Africa and the local populations? Did the majority of people retain their Berber culture almost entirely, or would they have worn Roman clothes and eaten Roman food?

In other words, did Africans "feel" Roman or did they always see Rome as a tyrannical foreign invader whose yoke was to be thrown off, like the Jews saw them?

My girlfriend is really trying to figure out if this really happened at any point and if so if it has any citation. Thank you! (sorry if this is against any rules I don't frequent here often but have seen a lot of great answers before.)

Of course war movies are worthless in terms of military history, but I noticed during such classics as Saving Private Ryan that some soldiers (major stars) took off as often as possible.

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I was recently reading Marcus Aurelius Antoninus and his position on the Christian problem, and in some ways it struck me that the guarded position of the state at that time is possibly not too different from how states today view Islamic minorities in the West - as potential sources of trouble.

This led me to wonder if there were any Christian (Christianist? Christian fundamentalist?) groups which engaged in violence against the Roman Empire and its citizens to gain political concessions. Were there Christian terrorists at that time? Did people sympathise with them? Would you be labelled a Christianophobe for fearing the rise of Christianity?

Cheers for any insights!

Throughout the history of Islamic scientific advancements of old there were cities that were the center of that advancement. What is shared between these cities is that they were outside of the Arabian Peninsula. Why hasn't Makkah or Madinah, the two holiest cities in Islam, become that center? A minority of the scholars that lead the scientific research else where were from the Arabian peninsula but it never happened in the peninsula itself . Anyone has an idea why is that the case ?

I plan to study History in germany. I speak german, english and spanish, and would be willing to move to a different country, or learn new languages, like chinese.

Were other nations afraid of another French bid for dominance? Were there plans for another coalition?

It's horrifying, but slave owners had it within their power to select for slaves that are more obedient, docile, and physically fit. I would imagine that at least some of them would do it. And by 'select for traits' I don't just mean selective breeding, it could also be killing of slaves with undesirable traits which would also have a selecting effect. If they did select for any type of traits, is it possible that we can see evidence of their eugenics practices in modern populations?