history

So there's a Youtuber named Max Miller who has a youtube channel focused on cooking, specifically recreating historical recipes. From Victorian Recipes to Ancient Egypt, there's been quite a lot of variety. And I just thought it was interesting enough to warrant a thread here. Though I may have...

The game is back, ladies and gentlemen. If you're interested in joining, hit me up! If you wanna rejoin, feel free to do so. If you wanna just do a but of sub-GMing, just let me know :) It was in late December of 1935 when research institutes on an Earth much like our own began to...

Something I don't understand and this may simply be just contradiction here. When Elizabeth Woodville married Edward IV, she already had two children. She was in no way a virgin when married and if they had not been "gotten rid of" by Richard III, her son Edward or Richard would have become...

ኢትዮጵያ ታበፅዕ እደዊሃ ሃበ እግዚአብሐር The Horn of Africa, 1478 Ethiopia. An ancient land and a holy land, that was already old when Rome arose to straddle the world. Kingdoms untold have risen and fallen here since the days of Homer and Cyrus, and it is said that when the Christian faith came to these...

Italian Quest: A Mercenary Boot Welcome to Italy, Captain. The richest lands in Central Europe, and birthplace of the renaissance. Take on the mightiest armies of Europe, and live to stuff your stockings and boots full of the finest booty that Italy can offer, or be crushed under the heel of an...

M: So at this point it should be common knowledge that Adolf Hitler served as a courier for the German army in WW1. This was a very dangerous job in a very dangerous war. At one point a British rifleman even had Hitler at his mercy and would have killed him if not for feeling sorry for him. All...

Welcome to Historical Civilization Quest, based on the Rhye's and Fall Mod for Sid Meier's Civilization 4 Beyond the sword. Here's the link to the forum if anyone's interested. NOTE THAT YOU DO NOT NEED TO HAVE EVEN PLAYED SID MEIER'S CIVILIZATION SERIES AT ALL TO TAKE PART IN AND ENJOY THIS...

I thought this line of discussion was pretty fertile ground and maybe over in the controversial historical opinion thread I could make room for other conversations. The Ancient Americas have become my passion and I have read dozens of books and hundreds of articles on the subject. So I hope I...

Hello everyone and thank you for joining me in building a community! We are going to use the game/world-building tool Ex Novo created by Sharkbomb Studios to create an urban setting for future fiction & quests. I hope that this journey through the history of this settlement will prove to be just...

So I've been thinking about this on and off for a long time and I've always thought that a world without WW1 would be fascinating. The first world war was really the most dramatic upheaval since the Napoleonic Wars, and while WW2 accelerated the trends inaugurated by World War 1, the first world...

Medieval eyesalve joins modern fight against antibiotic-resistant bacteria By David Szondy July 28, 2020 A Medieval Anglo-Saxon medical book in the British Library may hold the key to finding new ways to combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Scientists at the University of Warwick have found...

We're back - lessons have been learned from the original quest. This improvement has a mechanical accounting of population, a more robust estate system, new army mechanics, new technology mechanics, and new expansion mechanics. That's a lot of mechanics. It has been completely divorced from the...

I'm looking for some good books on the Boxer Rebellion, preferably ones with a nuanced view towards the conflict. Does SV have any suggestions?

Crossposting from SB: I've been a fan of Dan Turner's Simple History series for a while. The man's no slouch when it comes to his research, and the only thing "simple" about the series is his animation style. So with the release of his latest video, I've decided to start the thread. Feel free...

The Dying Empire- A post WW2 British Nation Game The War is at long last over. In Europe Hitler and Mussolini have been defeated after five long years and in Asia the Japanese Empire has been brought to its knees after two atomic bombs. But despite being a member of the winning block the...

In this thread, I will be posting a long essay which I have been working on, which examines the military history of the Roman army in its Republic. For sake of reading ease, I have broken down this essay into three posts, and this first post will contain links to the separate sections, divided...

There was recently a thread on SB talking about anime and politics; the thread itself was about whether or not the genre of anime was inherently right-wing, but it eventually veered off into talking about politics in Japan and its interactions with Japanese animation and "Otaku culture" in...

Greetings Customer. As you well know, by purchasing one of our products you were placed into a list of potential winners at our annual animus technology, with the chance to take a glimpse at your ancestors and take a personal, in depth look at the distant past. Congratulations on winning this...

I was listening to the Fall of Civilizations Podcast on Easter Island The host argues that Easter Island did not collapse due to cutting down all the tree or that they over farmed the land. In fact that they had specially planted terraced farms using rocks for better water retention and they...

It has been a thousand years since Arthryn walk amongst the her chosen people, the Arthwyd. Born in Greenbay Cove, it was Arthryn who taught the Arthwyd how to farm and founded the village of Greenbay at her birthplace. It was Arthryn who taught the Arthwyd the sacred ways of valuing your...

Sufficient Velocity introduction Are you are inflicting this on another Forum? Yes, I am. Even though it is deeply flawed? Possibly, I thought that if I put it here then more people would notice it. A smaller pond? I suppose… The original link for AH.com is here: Over by Christmas – a TL

I've recently tried looking into historical areas I'm not really familiar with and I'm a bit curious in the history of Ethiopia, but am at something of a loss of where to find good, easily readable, sources that detail its history and culture. Would anyone have any links in regards to the time...

AN: Hello! I'm okmangeez and I've just recently joined. I've been active on a few other forums, such as SpaceBattles and Alternate History, and decided to jump onto this forum to look around as well. I've been working on an alternate history story for a while now and wanted to share it with...

Make up some scenarios where the events of November 9th 1989 didn't happen, or happened differently. Describe what the world looks like thirty years later, on November 9th 2019.

But this is just bankrupt 1950s Intellectual History of Great Men without any considering of social history, cultural history, or the way that thinking and ideas really interact with the world.