Are there any good books talking about Anglo-Saxon culture? Looking for info not so much about war and battles but every day life

Please redirect me if the question is better suited elsewhere. I ask on behalf of a 13 year old budding historian:

Is it possible to succeed as a historian with learning differences? High-functioning autism, ADHD, and dysgraphia (specific learning disability in written expression: moderate)?

This boy is bright and curious and can discuss complex events with a sophisticated understanding and vocabulary. He wants to be a historian and is trying to make academic choices with that goal in mind. But writing is a struggle. He has 504 accommodations for spelling and can use keyboards in place of handwriting, but it only goes so far.

He's still so young and there is time to strengthen these skills, yet learning specialists say that true learning disabilities never go away.

Have any of you, or your colleagues, found success in this field with similar obstacles? From the outside I assume that writing is so essential to history degrees and careers that it's hard for me to see how this will work out for him. But I want to be supportive.

Thanks!

Where did the US import most of its coffee from in the 19C?

I want to start reading up about the history of Rome. Should I begin from SPQR by Mary Beard or from some other book? Please help. Thanks.

Does anyone know any books or articles about hygenie in early colonial New France and New England? If not, 17th century Europe in general? I've heard some horror stories about Louis XIV's Versailles, but I want something more concrete.

I’ve been cast as an Englishman in a film. He is an ex-convict and middle ranked sailor for the British East India Company circa 1790. I would like his accent to be as authentic as possible. Does anyone know which modern accent/dialect spoken today, I could reference, to develop the character’s accent as it might have been in 1790?

During the David Irving v Penguin Books trial, there is contest between Irving and the defence barrister Rampton over "the Hirst report".
Who was Hirst? What was the report?
This contest came up during day 8 of the trial, recorded here: https://www.hdot.org/day08/#
I'd like to emphasis: I understand that this is a sensitive area of discussion on this sub. I have absolutely zero doubt that a deliberately organised campaign of mass-murder was put into action by the Nazi's.
I'm just asking because I simply haven't been able to find out about Hirst via Google.
Thank you.

What are some good archival primary sources for late Qing(清), early Republican era China? Purely on amateur interest and to brush up in reading Classical Chinese of the late imperial era vintage.

I have been getting into reading old newspapers that were published in China during that era, stuff like 循環日報, which is available free online via the Hong Kong old newspaper collection. Yes, it is in a dense transitional form from Classical Chinese to Vernacular Chinese, and lacks punctuation, and is in a weird early era newsprint, but I was meaning to brush up my Classical Chinese. So, anyone know of other places I can get such newspapers, I am open to it being in Chinese(Classical or Vernacular), English, or French, but Spanish or Portuguese is a maybe(not fluent enough, for now, but might just take a note of it to leave it for a bit later). Preferably free online and not needing to be in those academic databases or physical access to microfilms or an university library or some archival half a world away.

Also, anyone know where one can find government related gazette for that era(京報/邸報)? And other government related records like memorial to the throne(奏疏)?

Any suggested reading of interesting material of that era in primary source material that is accessible?

What lead to Quebec city having such impressive stone and earth walls and gates while Montreal demolished theirs and the English and dutch defensive walls of Virginia and New York remained just timber palisades?

What person has met the most US presidents (living or dead)?

Not sure if this fall's strictly under history as it's more a question of morality and a bit of a what-if, I just can't think who to ask.

Wondering if Hitler hadn't invaded Poland, hadn't started the war, would the Holocaust likely have continued without foreign intervention till completion? At least with the Jewish/Roma/homosexual/disabled populace of Germany-Austria? Would the Allied powers really have been willing to spill so much blood starting a war to stop a genocide? I can't think of other times when they have been willing to.

I've been thinking of the crimes being commited on citizens in North Korea or the Uygher population in China right now and the idea of US or other allied boots on the ground there seems impossible. Obviously nuclear weapons change that dynamic greatly from the second world war though.

What was the population of Ireland around 1000 AD?

Why was there a lack of major participation from the Irish Defence Forces during the times of the Troubles? Were they just harshly sidelined by the British, or was it an actual and fully conscious decision by the Irish Government to do so?

I'd like if someone could recommend a good, informative book (not too dense or detailed), about the French Revolution. Any authors. I read in English, but I'm native in Spanish.

Is there a term/terms for when the popular memory of historical events tends to place them closer together than they actually occurred or further apart?

I experienced a moment of surprise the other day when I realized how many World War II generals were born in 1800s. I wondered if there was a term for that kind of misperception in historical studies.

What do we know about what Cnut was doing during Swen's 1013 invasion of England? I've checked the two "standard biographies" (Bolton and Lawson's 2011 one) and neither of them say much about it except that he married Ælfgifu during this time (which I guess means he was in Mercia?). Was Cnut accompanying Swen's forces, or did he have a force of his own that went somewhere else?

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Hi, I'm new here and am hoping someone might have an educated guess as to what region/culture/civilization/era the deer (or possibly goat, or ?) pictured in the link above might be from. He has such a distinct style, but I can't quite place it and googling + reverse image searching has gotten me nowhere.

To be clear, I have no interest in selling this or expectations of its value. It was simply inherited from a family friend who recently passed away. She was very well-traveled, so it really could be from anywhere, I just would like to at least find out the region of its origin.

Thanks in advance!

In a recent discussion of ancient European industrialization, someone pointed to "Was ANYTHING invented in Western Europe in the Middle Ages? I'm starting to think that the Dark Ages were real." I noticed, in an answer by /u/dromio05,

The average person in the Middle Ages had a markedly improved quality of life over the average person living in the Classical period. They lived longer, and were less likely to die of disease, famine, or in battle.

What sort of data do we have on that? (Even leaving aside the problematic "all of space and time" issue: the 14th century had a bit more disease than the 13th, for example.)

How long did large scale wars typically last during the medieval period?

How extensive are the medieval and earlier sources regarding plant and animal breeding, esp. with regards to domestication and selective breeding? And are there any scholarly or popular books on this topic readily available?

im looking for a quote someone wrote hundreds of years ago, how they were complaining today's youth only sent short quick messages, and how people used to take the time to write long thoughtful letters. mirrors modern people's complains of texting, and then twitter. in the same vain as that socrates quote about youth [etc]

Do we have Frederick Barbarossa's sword or was it lost on crusade? this keeps popping up

I see we have Frederick II's coronation sword, did the Kings of Germany/Holy Roman Emperors use their personal swords when crowned or use Freddy2's sword? Did they have a freshly forged ceremonial sword for coronations?

Question about a very specific aspect regarding emperor Nero's reign of terror

I remember I had a Latin language teacher in high school that mentioned in class that Nero invited/asked underlings to (sensitive content)>!end themselves !<after they "fell in disgrace" (or made him unhappy). Because I was a horrible student and because I didn't quite like how History was taught in my school I didn't pay a lot of attention. I can imagine a lot of tyrants did this but I'm wondering if my teacher mentioned it either because he did that to relevant public officials or he used to do this a lot. Of the many heinous acts he committed sorry I just find this hilarious and I can't believe I still remember this after 10 years. I decided to search on Google but I can't find anything related... If anybody could answer this question or hint me to a biography I will be happy unlike Nero. Thanks.

Looking for a good definitive, comprehensive history of both the Opium Wars and the Russo-Japanese War. Any recs?

Did Stalin ever visit the US? For some reason I thought that famous picture at Yalta was actually Bretton Woods. Since I found out it is not I am now curious if he ever came to the US at all?

What would the daughter of a 16th Century Italian Duke be titled as?

Is there a possibility that the battleship USS Maine was sunk by a torpedo fired from a Spanish submarine?

What's the difference between a siege engine and a siege machine?

What was the wealthiest colony in the German Colonial Empire?

How did Russian soldiers actually go about getting to Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War?

The distance from most population centers in Russia to the area is quite great. Were there rail lines that connected that far east?

I was browsing around on wikimedia commons and found this poster

The page for the poster, titled "6 plus 8 = 14 sad penguins" has the following information:

Description

English: 6+8. Poster promoting education and civic activity, showing two columns of penguins, six on the left, eight on the right.

Date between 1936 and 1941

It is attributed to USA's Works Progress Administration.

It is also available at the Library of Congress, where it apparently lives between Skiing in the East The best trails and how to get there and Shall the artist survive?, in the vicinity of numerous items regarding syphilis.

Question(s): Why are the penguins sad? What does it have to do with civic engagement? What is this poster even about? Nothing here makes sense to me.

Did Luther really say "Whoever wants to be a Christian must pluck out his eye of reason"? I couldn't find the source of this oft-repeated quote.

I need the name of a brave pilot. I read it a long time ago so the memory may be a bit murkey. It was from the Pre-WWII era. Maybe Hitler was already in power in Germany, but maybe a bit earlier. I'm looking for the name of a person that bemoaned that communism and facism have their fanatical supporters while liberalism looks so weak with no one willing to die for it. So he decided to perform a cross pacific(or maybe cross channel?) flight and landed a plane in Berlin, which I assume meant certain death?
It was a story that stuck in my head, so I would like to know more about this person. The story maybe from Hannah Arendt's Origin of Totalitarianism. Thanks for your time in advance.

What's the longest period the Levant was NOT at war? It seems like there's always been conflict in the Levant; whether internal civil war or attacking forces. When was the longest period of peace in the area?

Hello, I’m doing research and was wondering if anyone knew of any sort of digital collection of radio broadcasts from the 1930s-40s? Thank you for your help!

My fellow anarchists constantly worry about being betrayed and shot by Marxist-Leninists as in Kronstadt and the Spanish Civil War. But those examples are about a century old now. What's the most recent time something like that happened?

How many suits did working class/middle class men have on average in their wardrobe from the turn of the 20th century to WW2 (EU and USA)

How many/what percentage of Europeans were able to read/write/both by 1500ad?

Are there any examples of sovereign states amicably dividing up a conquered territory or new land? Or has it always, exclusively led to war, like with the French and Indian War?

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Does Austria-Hungary count? It isn't as if Poland blanched at Romania getting Transylvania...

What shoes did Steve Martin wear in Planes, Trains and Automobiles? They appear to have a basket weave design and look pretty nice. Any idea as to what brand these are?

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So how did a suit of medieval mail armor (let's say high middle ages) compare to a suit of Roman lorica hamata? Like other than the name and the aesthetics, were there meaningful differences?

In John Mackay's biography of Stirner, “Max Stirner: His Life and His Work”, it says, "He wore short blond sideburns and mustache, while his chin was always clean-shaven, and his blond, reddish, lightly curled and short­cut, soft hair left completely free his massive, domed, quite strikingly high and conspicuous forehead."

What source did John Mackay get this description from?

I'd like to read a book on social and economic realities of working class Americans in the 1940s. I watch a lot of film noir made in this era and I'd like some background to the underlying, and often disturbing, themes in these films.

My question might be pretty broad, so I thought I’d post it here. How has the secular state legitimatized institutions such as churches?

What is the precise origin of the term "ultimate sacrifice" in reference to military KIAs?

Here's a modern example of the term's use.

Has there been any sort of trend in the relative frequency of fathers being described as having gone out for tobacco versus milk before failing to return? It would make intuitive sense that the decline of smoking would force a shift in family-life tropes, but tropes can also be stubborn and counter-intuitive.

What is the first pun we know of?

How much was japanese yen worth in 1914 in compare to current value?

What was the relationship between Gerald Ford and George HW Bush? Did Ford put Bush in a position of power?

How many non-Turks fought for Ataturk/the Republic during the Turkish War of Independence?

How should I call the UK around 1800. We're in history class around the Napeolonian Wars and I have seen in our textbooks that sometimes they speak of England and sometimes of Great Britain. How is it right on political matters?

Are there examples of African slaves in the US or Europe in the 17th- 19th centuries choosing to remain in slavery?

Why was the Mega Drive sold in the US as "SEGA Genesis"? There are conflicting stories either about it being a trademark issue, or some guy deciding it should mark a "new start" for SEGA. Everything looks like conjecture though.

The Pink Floyd albums Animals and The Wall contain explicitly leftist political themes. Animals was released the same year Jimmy Carter was inaugurated in the US, and The Wall was released the same year Margaret Thatcher was elected in the UK. Both of these politicians spearheaded neoliberal policies in their respective countries, emphasizing deregulation and privatization, among other things.

Did the elections of these two leaders have a notable impact on the reception of these albums in the US and UK?

I would like to learn more about Imperial China. I'm less interested in sequences of events and more in social, political, economic, and military characteristics. Where should I start?

I imagine someone here has heard of Professor Bret Devereaux's blog, "A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry." Very broadly, it applies history (especially military history) to fictional settings.

Are there other blogs that address similar topics? That is, checking the realism or believability of fictional worlds by comparing them to real-world culture, politics, economics, warfare, etc.?

In a book about the Napoleonic era i just finished, Britain's motivation in retaining overseas colonies in certain places was said to be to "control trade" in the region. What does that actually mean though? Did they want to be able to stop trade through the area in a time of war? Did they want to be able to stop and search ships for smugglers? Did the military control of a sea lane encourage British tax payers to operate there at the expense of others?

When was the term "30 Years War" first used todescribe the 1618-1848 conflicts centered in Germany? (Doesn't have to be English)

Who did James Madison endorse for the Presidency in 1836, shortly before his death in June?

Hi why do Hitlers eyes look dark in his black and white Time man of the year photo? Did the editors do it or is it something that occurred due to the limitations of photo technology at the time?