I hope this is the right subreddit for this. Anyhow, I have the family letters from the 1860's to the 1930's, and I have them in binders in plastic sleeves. I just read about acid free paper folders etc, so I'm wondering if I should switch. I'm just thinking the plastic sleeves aren't acidic.

Assuming he is a fairly pious sort, that is.

Most of the things I read seems that it was a religious thing, that they were Catholics and therefore disloyal, heretic, satanic etc. however when you look at drawings going all the way up to the 20th century the Irish are portrayed as a different race with monkey like features. So was anti-Irish feeling in the UK back then based on race or religion? If someone was Irish and converted to Anglicanism would they be spared discrimination and seen as "normal"?

From my understanding Pryor was a student in West Germany, not East Germany, and the trouble came from having an East German girlfriend. Is that the case?

I am reading about Henry's campaign in France along the Somme on the way to Agincourt, and there's a mention that the English and French armies "faced each other at about a mile distance, though several chronicles suggest they were closer." A note says that a French chronicler "makes it four bowshots." How far, in terms of the measurement, was a bowshot?

I know enough about bows to understand draw weights, etc., and I'm not asking how far a bow could shoot, but rather what distance was implied by the term.

Thanks!

Looking back at parties of past presidents there were a few presidents in the 'Whig' party. What happened to the party?

After watching peaky blinders last night it left me to wondering what effect did PTSD have on the people returning from the war to home?

As a side question, was there an increase in crime due to the trained killers all coming back?

Hi I don't know if this is the right place to ask this.

Is there anyway to search for museum items from a period and a place in particular?

I mean for example, spain 12th century, and then you get a list of items that had been preserved with pictures and or the museum where they are stored and so on.

THanks for yout time.

Hello, I am writing a fantasy novel, and one character is seeking to buy equipment for an army. So what I would be thankful for is costs of weapons, such as crossbows, halberds,and siege equipment, including ammo. How many ships would be needed for 500 halberds, 300 crossbows, 10 ballistas, and around 250,000 crossbow bolts?

I've tried googling, but did not find the cost of crossbows, or halberds, let alone shipping costs.

As the title says, I'm interested in raw data on horses in medieval Europe. Specifically, I'm looking for their height, weight and armor (did they have it, what kind of armor, how frequent was it). Preferably, those would be based on physical evidence (skeletons, actual armor) rather than descriptive accounts, but beggars can't be choosers...

I'm already familiar with Museum of London's Medieval horse and its equipment, by the by.

Hello r/Askhistorians!

I'm a Goan and wanted to know how Goa was under the Portuguese rule. I'd like to know how things were such as the infrastructure, treatment of the locals, and general standard of living, etc. prior to Goa's liberation.

Now, I'm against colonialism and was shocked to hear from some of the locals living here that they would have been better off under the Portuguese than the Indian government. I've heard both sides of the argument which seemed to be based more on personal feelings and speculations than facts. For example, my mother lived during that time and she said the Portuguese were very nice to her (which seemed pretty obvious since most people tend to be nice to 8 year olds.). This made me want to delve further into the topic and find out the truth.

I tried researching on Google and didn't find much apart from some sources stating that the Portuguese burned a lot of their historical documents before leaving (which made me wonder if they were trying to cover their tracks.)

Can someone who's an expert on Portuguese history help clear this up for me?

Thanks for your time!

Was it because new advances in sewing lead to the ability to make these dresses, causing them to be the new style of high status, or was there more to it? There is such a rapid jump between the more "normal" styles in the early 1800s and then a sudden shift to these very elaborate dresses - did these dresses exist before that point, or did they become popular because they were a new invention? Likewise, how did they come out of fashion? Simply because they were really too cumbersome or because something else (more advanced sewing techniques?) come to be the new popular style?

Just like the title. My entirely unfounded assumption is that it had something to do with pigs and farmers, but we all know how surprising history can be!

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Context: My (german) Grandma told me of her early childhood in Bessarabia, where her family had a small cloth/textile factory. A very short (and probably wrong) summary of what she told me:

• Her family were living in Bessarabia (at the time part of Romania I believe) together with other families of german ethnicity, also called "Bessarabiendeutsche"

• Germany adopted a "Heim ins Reich" (Back Home to the empire) policy. In her words "Hitler came and told us we had to go back to the fatherland. It was portrayed as our patriotic duty."

• After more or less forcefully relocating into Germany, she and her family hat to spend about 2 years in what she called a "Eindeutschungslager" (which could be translated to "Germanification camp") under bad conditions. To clarify she said it wasn't inhumane and life threatening like the concentration camps but it wasn't desirable either. She wasn't exactly sure how long the family had to stay there, that's why I wrote "about 2 years".

• After that they migrated to Baltic coast, Mecklenburg to be specific, where the locals weren't exactly thrilled about the new arrivals. As she said, Bessarabiendeutsche were generally looked at with distrust.

Since she was very young at the time I wanted to ask how much of what she told me could be considered as truth. And also as the title says, what were the political reasons for the german state to do what it did?

Edit: I just wanted to add a small detail I just remembered. She said that the "Eindeutschungslager" was located in Bavaria near Munich, I believe.

From what I understand, there were two types of soldiers in the Roman Empire. One consisted of Roman citizens who's supreme commander was a member of the senate. The other type consisted of soldiers from across the empire and were not citizens. Wasn't this a huge risk for the Roman soldiers to be dependent on armies that had no fidelity to the Romans?

Iv'e heard stories of German doctors and scientists doing horrid experiments on victims, did anything "useful" at least come from it?

Has anyone here ever heard of black people using an escape route from Canada to the United States?

Someone on facebook just insinuated that at some point prior to the Underground railroad, there was a similar "type of situation" wherein Black people had organized an escape route from Canada.

I'd never heard of this before and a google search revealed nothing. If anyone here has heard of anything akin to this, please let me know. I'd really like to learn more.

I'm curious if there was ever a time when emotions were not linked with a heart. For example, in a book, film, poetry, or whatever, love, sadness, or happiness is linked with our hearts. Why are they not linked with our brains, where emotions are processed?

Has this always been the case? Or did this trend show up during a certain time period and caught on ever since?

Thanks in advance :)