Hello, sorry if this does not exactly follow the post guidelines, but I was wondering some questions, such as, Who are the North Sentinel Island people? who first found them? How/when did they get to their island? What are good reasons for them being so territorial? What is their Language? Etcetera. Any information (as long as it is not something like, aliens did it) would be nice. Thank you!

Their thumb touches their ring finger (e.g. Christ icones)...

I have a card that was given to him when he left The Royal Scots. The front of it says, "Army Form D. 402. National Association for the Employment of Reserve Soldiers, &c. Name and Description of a Man recommended for Employment". Unfortunately, this is all the information I have about his service, aside from a portrait of him in his uniform.

I'm interested in knowing at what age he most likely would have enlisted (would 18 have been standard in 1900?) and were the Royal Scots involved in any foreign conflicts during his short time in the service?

Hi everyone, this is a wonderful sub and I have been a lurker for a long time but had to make an account for a question that has been nagging me for a while. My question is regarding the history of Britain. My knowledge in this sphere is rather limited but I have a friend who knows a bit more about this subject however, I disagree with some of his arguments. So hopefully, some of you can help point me in the right direction.

He argues that ever since the Norman conquest England and the amalgamation of this group with Anglo-Saxons and Celtic peoples, the combined entity has been very powerful throughout history. Now I have several issues with this statement primarily how does one define 'power', or 'history' but I would appreciate an answer that sheds some light on the question — since the Norman conquest and subsequent intermingling, how powerful the combined entity has been?

Thanks.

How was Sexuality & Gender perceived in Germany between 1920 - 1989? How did these perceptions change after world war two Were there differing ideas on what sexuality should be in each allied occupation zone?

I'm quite interested in how Sexual education was taught to the future nazi generations? How did this differ between boys & girls? I know girls were taught the importance of Kinder, Küche & Kirche (Children, Kitchen & Church) but how did this effect the "Gender Schema" of the era? Were there any sexual positions that were deemed more "aryan" than others? Or gave German couples a better chance of having a "completely aryan" baby?

How was pornography viewed during this time? Was it influenced by propaganda? I've also heard of the Lebensborn birth houses for unmarried women to become impregnated by specially chosen S.S. members, What exactly went on in these birth houses?

I've heard that in occupied Norway, Norwegian mothers who had German children (in these birth houses) were shunned & often raped, How true is this? Are there any accounts of this?

How true is Heinz Heger's statement in The Men With The Pink Triangle that:

Himmler directed that all gay prisoners were to make compulsory visits to the camp brothel once per week as a means of curing them of their same-sex attraction.

And to what extant can we use Heger as a reliable source when he says:

the sadism of some of the SS officers reflected repressed homosexual desires of their own.

How true do historians think this statement is especially when thinking of Heinrich Himmler? One last thing, I read that:

Lesbians were not widely persecuted under Nazi anti-gay laws, as it was considered easier to persuade or force them to comply with accepted heterosexual behaviour.

How did the Nazi's go about persuading lesbians to switch to heterosexual practices?

I understand that it's certainly either depending on the individuals, but do we know which is more common? Does it differ by nationality or ethnicity?

I know that, throughout their history, the Eastern romans called themselves "Romans". I believe that's what they were called by their eastern neighbours. But what did the western peoples call them? The franks, the goths?

And throughout the years, for as long as the Eastern Roman Empire was a political entity?

What were the achievements? and am befuddled by this qoute

French historian Jacques Godechot points out “The French were strongly attached to the essential achievements of the Revolution, and Louis XVIII had come back ‘in the baggage train of the foreigners’ with the last surviving émigrés who had ‘learnt nothing and forgotten nothing’ and whose influence seemed to threaten most of the Revolution’s achievements"

A second world war bomb has been successfully removed from a beach (?) in the U.K. If it detonated, technically whoever it killed or injured would be a victim of the 2nd world war 70 years on.

This got me thinking , who was the last victim of the war? And when?

In the TV series "Mad Men", the main character is often shown leaving home / work, and right afterwards, after a cut, arriving at work / home. How much time would he in reality have spent commuting in between these two situations?

He lives in the suburb of Ossining and is occasionally shown on some kind of suburban train - what route was that, when was it established? Would his commute have changed during the course of the events of the series (1960-1970) with new routes being established etc.?

As a European, the US strike me as very focused on cars, but some of the larger (and somewhat older cities) seem to have quite an OK public transit systems. Were there different degrees of prestiges associated with using or not using your personal car to commute at different times? Don Draper is definitely upper middle to upper class and has this huge Lincoln by season 3 (haven't watched it further, please no spoliers! :) ), but he doesn't seem to mind joining all the regular folks on that train - so would this just have taken way less time?

I mean why couldn't a train run with wheels through regular roads instead of a railroad?

It seems unusual to me that the informal "thou" lost its popularity and that the formal, grand "you" is now the only second person pronoun really seen in the English language. When did "thou" fall out of fashion?

We all read a lot about the structure of inter-state politics but what happened within the italian peninsula itself between the fall of rome and the renaissance, as a broad time frame.

The main one I am interested in is neorealism (Kenneth Waltz). There is strong claim that the neorealistic approach to international relations is universal. But I have mainly seen it being applied to either 19th/20th century "Great Power Politics". I am wondering if there are any books that test this claim to universalism by looking at ancient history or really anything sufficiently historical (Say < 1700 CE to draw an arbitrary line).

I think it would be interesting to analyze the Roman Republic's rise to Mediterranean hegemony or so.

Hi all,

Does anyone on here have a suggestion for a book that I want, but that I'm not sure even exists. Basically, one where the author/historian covers all eras and time periods, preferably in chronological order but, as long as all (or the majority) are covered, it's fine by me.

Obviously as it'd cover a lot of different periods, it won't be the most in-depth historical read, but, again, I'd prefer if it was more than just a basic summary that you'd find in a kids book. Just a chapter on each era (or maybe it's in a series of books).

Thanks.