There are so many myths & misconceptions going around about the Black Death that I thought it might be a good idea to put a bunch of facts together.The topic seems to be extra popular among the creators of AI slop nonsense and they generally keep repeating the same old rubbish, so this article may … More The Black Death – everything you need to know
More AI slop polluting the internet with history nonsense.This is a relatively small tiktok account but the videos they share have already been seen by hundreds of thousands of people.I’ll share a few random screenshots from a few of their videos here and tell you what’s wrong.The comments section online shows that people are blindly … More AI review: Time Witnessed
Disclaimer: I got this game for free, but I wasn’t asked for any favours or be extra nice. This game was made for me, not literally, but it just has everything I love: history, middle ages, medieval art, old books, illuminations and weirdness galore.In ‘Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts‘ you’re a medieval artist, an illuminator, with … More Game review: Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts (2026)
The internet is currently being flooded by a tidal wave of AI videos, every day more and more are uploaded, most of them are very bad, probably because not just the visuals but also the research was done by an LLM or by a human who didn’t spend as much time doing research as they … More AI review: Chloe VS History
This article was originally (partially) a thread on social media, which is why it is formatted with lots of images and short responses.The text is about the image below that paragraph. just finished ‘A Plague Tale: Requiem’.A young woman tries to save her little brother from a rat & plague related curse. I’ll share my … More Game review: ‘A Plague Tale: Requiem’ (2022)
It is sometimes difficult to comprehend that many of our most favourite and common foods and spices were not available to ‘the old world’ till after Europeans found their way to the Americas.Yes, once upon a time we somehow managed to survive without potatoes, tomatoes, tobacco and many more delicious things.And yes, till the spice … More Food & ingredients available in Medieval Europe before contact with the Americas
On some photos of the liberation of the Netherlands I found this little black girl and I needed to know more about her, who she was, what her life was like, what happened to her. I haven’t found her but did discover quite a bit. A history detective thread on Twitter that I turned into … More Finding a war orphan
This article was originally (partially) a thread on social media, which is why it is formatted with lots of images and short responses.The text is about the image below that paragraph. Going to watch ‘Vikings: Valhalla‘, I guess I’m into punishment or something. Within 2 minutes, there are torches everywhere…Why torches everywhere is wrong?Read all … More TV review: Vikings: Valhalla (2022)
This is a very short review, ‘The bunker‘ is a pretty good film with stellar acting.Of course today we’ve all been spoiled by the amazing depiction of the same story in ‘Der Untergang‘ with Bruno Ganz, but in this older film we have the also quite superb Anthony Hopkins playing Hitler.The film also has several … More Film review: ‘The Bunker’ (1981)
This article was originally (partially) a thread on social media, which is why it is formatted with lots of images and short responses.The text is about the image below that paragraph. Time to review ‘The Vikings’!What? No, not that silly History Channel television show, pfff, don’t be silly.I of course mean the 1958 film with … More Film review: ‘The Vikings’ (1958)
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