Ayy guess who got a little scholarship money for the next year.

So...aside from the lewd scribbles on cave walls and phallic drawings in Roman bath houses, how did people in the Middle Ages access/consume pornography? Was there such a thing as porn theater for the rich? I’ll be banned for this, but I simply must know! Thanks:)

What is Middleton's Ejectment Act of 1663 and why would someone be banished over it?

"I'm reading about Alexander Peden (of Scotland) and apparently this happened:

After the restoration of Charles II, Peden had to leave his parish under Middletons Ejectment Act in 1663. For ten years he wandered far and wide, bringing comfort and succour to his co-religionists, and often very narrowly escaping capture, spending some of his time in Ireland.[1] To hide his identity, Peden took to wearing a cloth mask and wig, which are now on display in Edinburgh's Museum of Scotland.

In June 1673, while holding a conventicle at Knockdow near Ballantrae, Ayrshire, he was captured by Major William Cockburn, and condemned by the Privy Council to four years and three months imprisonment on the Bass Rock and a further fifteen months in the Edinburgh Tolbooth.[1]

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I've tried looking up the act and the like, but, I can't even get a firm grasp on what Ejectment is in this context and why he'd be banished over it. Especially having to go so far as to hide his identity."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Peden

P.S. if you read his wiki, he wears a cloth mask to "hide his identity from the authorities." How could that possibly help? Without exact pictures of people wanted by the law, wouldn't a mask just draw more attention? Was he just insane? I don't get how that mask would help in the 17th century to keep you on the low. I would assume it would make things worse

Looking for a book on Lincoln. Should I go with Team of Rivals, A. Lincoln by Ronald White, or Lincoln by David Herbert Donald? Team of Rivals isnt a biography solely about Lincoln right?

Are there any historical examples of businesses unilaterally enacting major employee-friendly policies? Ford's "Five Dollar Day" where they doubled the pay of their employees is the only real example that I can find.

I recently got what is suspected to be a ww2 helmet of some sort that I wanted to know more about. Is there anyone on this sub or some other sub that you guys think could help me identify what I have? It was passed down to me from my grandma. My grandpa picked it up when he was drafted by the US and stationed in Germany after the war.

I remember reading a while ago about an Eastern Roman Emperor forcing monks and nuns to marry. Apparently he was concerned about so many people joining orders and it was causing depopulation.

Anyone remember which Emperor this was?

What was the reason that pharoahs were buried with their gold and servants. Google tells me they wanted to continue their style of life but I'm curious was this like a sacrifice of wealth/goods to the gods in order to allow them to continue their lifestyle or was it as though life would continue as normal and they'd need their wealth to pay for things?

Is there any research done or books about how the study of history is going to be affected in the coming decades? It is really interesting to think that future historians are going to have almost infinite amount of sources and data about everyday lives of people about this period we currently live in.

What are some good undergraduate history/humanities journals? I'm quite aware of their shortcomings as publications, but was curious about the best of them- my university (quite surprisingly) doesn't have one, so I'm looking to get a journal started.

When established societies underwent economically significant hardships, which industries were the first to diminish?

How large was Cyrus the younger army?, all I'm seeing is the 10,000 greek mercenaries but I can't find the combined size of the army including the hellenes and Persians etc