From the Ancient World to Queen Victoria
Odin: – So I noticed there were quite a few questions about fabric. What do you have to say about that?
Me: – Well, sir, as Professor Lupin told Harry in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, I will not pretend to be an expert fighting Dementors, but I’ll try to help.
The planet is hardly static, and cities built around the coastline are sometimes prone to disappearing.
Translated by myself from French original. Feel free to use this translation (with the many mistakes it surely must have, be warned), please give credit as Danny J. Joseph. 🙂
The Portuguese Royal family is often set aside in the larger spectre of the 19th century. Amidst successful reigns such as that of Queen Victoria, the turbulent and often impoverished Portuguese realm may seem relatively unremarkable from afar. But it is not quite so. Portuguese monarchs and their children were well-related through the many royalContinue reading “Antónia, Princess of Portugal, Princess of Hohenzollern.”
There’s been plenty of talk in social network and the media about the cancelling of Netflix show Anne with an E. This is a show based on the works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, which follow the life of Anne, a red-haired orphan who accidentally ends up at the Cuthbert household after Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert,Continue reading “Anne with an E – (The lack of) Red-haired heroines in classic books”
I don’t know about you, but I’ve always had an interest in family history and genealogy. So a couple of years ago, I started doing my personal research. So far, I’ve tracked my family’s line up to the late 1700s (in some cases, all the way back to 1640). These ancestors of mine were living,Continue reading “Queen Victoria and her children”
Today’s post is a lot less philosophical and a lot more actual History. When we are walking along a city landscape, we often admire its old buildings, isn’t it? We’re walking past and our minds are thinking “Woah, 200 years ago this building was already here. I’m walking someone’s steps and seeing what they mustContinue reading “The Hotel Francfort, but also the Marrare”
The Historian Chronicles 