Boudicca seems to be almost a national hero in the UK nowadays, but did her rebellion have any real impact beyond the physical destruction it caused? Did it change the Roman administration of Southern Britain?

I have done a lot of searching, and all I can find is that he died, not how. He seems to be one of the only kings of England that doesn't have any documents specifically on his death.

as the title sates. What is each one specifically, when and were was this present in the past? Were these solely Japanese practices or did other cultures follow this?

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I'm currently taking a class on Outlaws in the British Isles, Australia, Canada, and America, and I've chosen to write a paper about the representation and record of women as outlaws in the same general period as Rob Roy MacGregor. However, despite much searching, I've found little to no information on this topic - it seems the only female outlaws considered worthy of note are all from the 19th or 20th centuries.

If you're familiar with Sir Walter Scott's Rob Roy, the only thing I could write about in this paper is Diana Vernon, who certainly represents her own sort of "outlaw". Despite having gone through a fair amount of literature in the course so far, women are still under-represented in the texts, or in some cases entirely made up to have some sort of literary significance.

I understand that times were different back then, and female outlaws were less common, but I'd still like to know if there was anyone you may consider an "outlaw" by whatever standard. These women could be bushrangers, robbers, assassins, political figures, rebellious royalty, or even just women who strongly challenged gender roles in their time, and had a significant impact because of their 'unusual nature'.

Thanks in advance!

I have a professor that asserted in class that sundown towns in the USA were actually "sundown laws". I had always been under the impression that sundown towns were places where it was "understood" that minorities weren't allowed after dark, not an actual codified law. Which view is correct? Were they sundown towns or sundown laws, as my professor suggests?

Big candy fan, but it just dawned on me that the entire concept is very strange - especially the fact that a lot of candy is just flavored rocks.

Are there any old records of candy that is similar to what we eat today like gum, skittles, jolly ranchers, et cetera that people would chew on/enjoy back in the day?

Just after some googling there doesn't seem to be much out there about his early life. It seems like that would be a prime post for a young military officer, and the Proconsul could have chosen someone with more military experience, wealth, connections, influence, etc.

A sort of related question: Do we know what specifically what Antony did with Pulcher to distinguish himself?

While visiting my local museum's Egypt exhibit, I noticed that a few of the statues had broken noses. While it's an admittedly small sample size, it seemed like noses were broken more than other protrusions. Are there any recordings of international nose breaking and the motives behind them?

I spend my undergrad optional classes focused on WW2 and I learned that Hitler didn't have a way to invade Britain and thus low chance of winning. However, Japan was on par with US and had conquer last portion of pacific. If they didn't lose their fleet by "luck" could they hold US long enough to get peace?

I have read War without Mercy and Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II - great books

General histories preferably, something fairly accessible to an amateur. Alternatively regional histories of the Baltic, Lubeck, North West Germany etc which touch extensively on the League would be good too.

Thanks in advance.

I’ve been reading the diary of an 18th century English marine, who during a multi-year voyage at sea and around the world frequently mentions writing letters home to his wife, and pining for the arrival of letters in return during the course of his travel. From his description, it appears they would simply talk to the crews of other ships they encountered while sailing or in foreign ports, and if they happened to be heading in a vaguely homeward direction, they gave them their mail to try and get closer to home. If the other ship was outbound as well, they would inquire to see if they happened to have any mail for them.

Was there any particular organization to this system, or was it purely happenstance and good will that got things where they needed to go? I can understand sailors being willing to do this for each other, as a sort of reciprocal arrangement that helps them all in the end regardless of nationality or service, but I’m curious about the specific mechanics, if any. If a person at home wanted to get a letter to a given ship, did they just walk down to the docks and hand it to the first ship headed where they think the target is? If a returning ship is carrying mail from ships encountered at sea and arrives in a port, is there a place for them to drop the letters off for delivery or further carriage to the intended recipient?

I don’t wish to underestimate the commitment and know-how of the sailors of the day, it just blows my mind a little seeing notes about French explorers departing Portuguese Brazil and meeting English military vessels in the south Pacific and happening to have aboard letters from England for those specific ships.

Were serfs ever sold in the Middle Ages? I understand that they could be transferred with land, if the land was sold (being sold as part of the land transaction). Were they ever traded separately from land? And if not, how did a lord cope with population growth?

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While the expressions and, more importantly, interpretations of mental illness are culturally conditioned and constructed, there is frequently an underlying genetic pathology. For example: 19th-century schizophrenics weren't receiving messages from their TV sets, but that's frequently listed as a symptom today; or the early medieval monastic sin accedia or spiritual listlessness has close ties to modern depression. There is a long history of modern scholarship on the prehistory of people, especially women, who starve themselves in the presence of abundant food: medieval holy women's severe asceticism, Victorian fasting girls, modern anorexia nervosa.

In Holy Feast and Holy Fast, which exploded the medieval side of the story for us, Bynum cites a couple cases of a (self-starving) holy woman who threw up or made herself throw up whatever she ate. She also references folk tale traditions of gorging and vomiting used to symbolize sensual pleasure and excess, but without examples to show whether that had connection to real practices, was linked to specific people, etc.

Like anorexia, bulimia (we know today) has an underlying genetic component. Is there a similar pre-history/narrative of historical expressions of the pathology underlying what we call bulimia nervosa today?

I wouldn't be surprised, being that the River Tweed is the Irish word for "north" (thaid). Did Goidelic Celts ever settle in northern England even a few miles? Obviously it wasn't northern England then, but what is now England.

Trying to find some more personal touches and accounts from the perspective of Germans for a script. Hard to find non-generalizing descriptions of personal lives of troops

Edit: Thanks for all the help everyone! These are all spot on the types of accounts I'm looking for!

I enjoy studying this period especially Henry VIII's reign, I've notice many prolific individuals are named Thomas, for example Sir Thomas More, Thomas Cromwell, Thomas Cranmer and Thomas Howard. Is there a reason for this? Or just the name was in vogue at the time?

Is there any way the Germans could have expanded their research and development of their synthetic oil industry, converting their vast coal reserves into petrol, that would make them free of oil concerns during WW2?