This article was originally 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. This is ‘The Saint Nicolas Feast’ (1660s) by one of my favourite Dutch painters Jan Steen. First a bit of background information: every year around … More Art review: ‘The Saint Nicolas Feast’, by Jan Steen (1660s)
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. Game review! Time to talk about Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 (and DLCs). I got early access and a free copy, just so you know, … More Game review: Kingdom Come Deliverance II (2025)
This article was originally 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. Let’s review a kids book from 2017 called “Gross facts about the Middle Ages”.Why am I doing this to myself?The cover alone is promising…You can … More Book review: ‘Gross facts about the Middle Ages’ (2017)
This article was originally 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. Remember ‘The First Great Train Robbery’?Oh boy… It’s an 1978 film set in Victorian times with Sean Connery & Donald Sutherland:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Great_Train_Robbery I’ve watched it before … More Film review: ‘The First Great Train Robbery’ (1978)
This article was originally 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. If you find this book in your kid’s school library, get it removed, it’s so bad.I’m just going through a few of the history pages … More Book review: ‘I wonder why, Book of knowledge’. by various authors (2006)
This article was originally 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 discovered this painting on wikipedia, never seen it before, first showed up in 2023 in an auction, so it’s pretty unknown.It is a Dutch … More Art review: Dutch bathhouse scene, unknown artist (1500s)
This article was originally 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. Yes, I am the fake history hunter, yes I will be annoying about tiny little details, I will literally be on the lookout for mistakes … More Film review: A Knights Tale (2001)
In stead of sending a link to old threads on social media every time someone posts nonsense about medieval hygiene, I’ve decided to just collect a whole bunch of links here on this page. Yes, a lot of people still believe that Medieval Europeans rarely or never bathed, didn’t have soap, were scared of water, … More Articles, links & videos about Medieval hygiene
This is not YET another article on why calling the early middle ages the dark ages is iffy, it’s a list of sources & references. These days most historians no longer use the term “Dark Ages” to describe the Early Middle Ages (roughly AD500- AD1500), we still use it for other eras, like the 1970s … More Why most historians no longer use the biased misnomer “dark ages”
This article was originally 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. Another art review, let’s check out some old art together and see what we can find out about it.This time a wonderful winter themed painting … More Art review: ‘Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters’ by Hendrick Avercamp (c. 1608)
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