Hello all-

As part of my ongoing "Questions about Ancient Greece and Rome (you were afraid to ask in school)" series, I recently posted a short video about dog breeds in the classical world. Hopefully of interest. As always, suggestions for improvement are welcome.

Hello! I am interested in films that portray social life in medieval times. I watched recently the film "Le Retour de Martin Guerre" as it portrayed life in medieval times. It would be appreciated if you could suggest any similar films

Hello Ask Historians! I already checked the book recommendation list and didn't find what I was looking for exactly. I hope this is the appropriate place to ask for recommendations. I am looking for biographies/books about:

1- Ching Shih. Most of what I am finding Googling is children's books or small overviews of pirates in that period.

2- Aethelfled. This I am seeing a lot of hits for on Google, I am just having trouble narrowing it down so would appreciate a recommendation as well.

What is England's equivalent of 1776? i.e. their "birthday"?

So as a big fan of solo games, I was delighted to discover Thousand Year Old Vampire yesterday (thanks to the good folks at Shut Up & Sit Down). The problem is that to create a proper character I have to decide when and where in history my vampire started. After doing my usual research (Wikipedia->'Random Page' until something interesting appears) I discovered the time of Frisian freedom, which I had never heard about! This caused me to go down a rabbit hole, and I spent 2 hours looking around for more info on this and never actually started the game.

I guess all this is a long-winded way of asking if anyone has any reading suggestions for the history of Frisia, especially but not limited to the 12th and 13th centuries?

Are they any popular or easily-accessible books about:

1. The Northern Crusades;
2. The Reconquista in Spain, or more generally the "Spaniard"/Moor conflict during those centuries; or,
3. The Mongol and Turkish invasions into Central Europe

I'm listening to Mike Duncan's History of Rome podcast, and got to Diocletian's governmental reforms. In this episode, he mentions the new power of the Praetorian Prefect, acting as a sort of vice-emperor

Did the other members of Diocletian's Tetrarchy have their own Praetorian Prefects, or was this something reserved for the top Emperor?

Hey, can anyone recommend some good reading on the following topics?

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• Red Summer of 1919
• Klan infiltration of Southern law enforcement (or law enforcement in general)
• Race riots in American history, particularly the '92 LA riots

Pardon me if this has previously been addressed, but do we know who put the Bop in the Bop-shoo-bop?

My current obsession with late Elizabethan/Armada-Era English military organisation has brought me to the Isle of Man and this little bit of information uncovered by Arthur William Moore in 1900:

The number of the Manx soldiers, both regular and militia, was 702, consisting of 41 horsemen, 18 "caliver" men, 286 bowmen, and 357 " billmen," all of whom were " much unprovided with weapons and other furniture." (transcribed here)

It is always surprising to read about how long the longbow persisted as a weapon in Britain and Ireland, even when it was considered entirely obsolete by the rest of Western Europe.

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What would JFK’s thoughts be on the Cuban embargo still being in place today?

What's the status of Mike Duncan's podcast Revolutions, specifically the Russian Revolution?

I usually like to save up an entire season / series to listen to as a unit. It has been a while since last he uploaded. Is he done with the Russian Revolution? (I can well imagine him saying, "why did you assume that I was covering the 1917 revolution?"). Is he on a defined hiatus?

Also, he said before that he was going to end with the Russian Revolution. Has he said otherwise since then?

Edit: his podcasts have had some interest here and, so far as I've seen, decent reputations, so I'll keep the question and put the answer here.

I later thought to check for a Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/RevolutionsPodcast/ There I found his recording from 19 January 2020. https://www.revolutionspodcast.com/2020/01/revolutions-podcast-update-the-end-is-nigh.html As of that time:

He was working on the Revolutions Podcast, and also on his upcoming book, Citizen Lafayette. He explained it as having two full-time jobs while also wanting to be a husband and father. He felt like he was fraying him around the edges. (He said that his previous effort, doing the History of Rome podcast while writing The Storm Before the Storm, almost caused him a nervous breakdown.)

So he continued the Revolutions podcast until the start of the Duma after the Revolution of 1905 (05 April 2020, 10.39 - The End of Part I). He planned a six-month sabbatical from the podcast to finish Citizen Lafayette. Then he planned to come back to finish the Russian Revolution in the middle of 2021.

Then he plans to stop this podcast. He said that he is losing momentum and interest, rather like with the History of Rome (and I remember the flat ending of the last narrative episode of that series). He's rather go out with solid work (my paraphrase).

Then he'll do something else. He has had various ideas, "and one will be right".

Hello guys I'm recently getting very interested into reading about history of sweden! I need your help to solve this riddle! I learned about sigurd's history but he does not fit in thia riddle I would really appreciate your help. Thank you!

"Fire is one of the elements of matter. It is the breath of the dragon. It can either destroy or save you. That time, the fire did destroy but did not save from defeat. This story of a Swedish warrior has gone down in history.

The memory of it is preserved at the place of the battle. And the question is: what is that place?"

The answer is a single capitalized word without special characters and spaces