ROTK Pippin Appreciation Post.

Man I could watch this all day.

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Samuel Pepys starts his diary that he kept faithfully for nine years and five months until his eyesight failed him. His diary offers us a first hand account of many historical events in London from 1660 to 1669 including the Great Fire of 1666 (which I had to read in class) Charles II and the plague. His diary was kept a secret as he wrote them and it wasn’t until 1825 that someone noticed the book in his library and published it.

Today he went to church, ate some leftovers with his wife then went to his parents house for dinner.

omgthatartifact:

fan-shaped chistmas card

1870s

Manchester City Galleries

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lostsplendor:

Today November 11th, in 1918, the first World War finally came to a close.

A long-standing military conflict spanning four years, the first World War laid claim to millions of lives; both civilians and military personnel alike.  

Photographs courtesy of drakegoodman

It ended in a train cart. Germany actually thought they had won seeing as none of her enemies had gotten into Germany. The repercussions from this were unjust and devastating for Germany.

In Flanders Fields

by John McCrae 

FS says:  Taking the facts from wikipedia (much to my shame I don’t have all the details exactly in my head):

Canadian physician and Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae wrote it on 3 May 1915, after he witnessed the death of his friend, Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, 22 years old, the day before. The poem was first published on 8 December of that year in the London-based magazine Punch. 

The poppies referred to in the poem grew in profusion in Flanders in the disturbed earth of the battlefields and cemeteries where war casualties were buried and thus became a symbol of Remembrance Day. The poem is often part of Remembrance Day solemnities in Allied countries which contributed troops to World War I, particularly in countries of the British Empire that did so.

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I make sure I say this every remembrance day <3

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runredrabbitrun:

servomascherato:

It doesn’t even matter that it’s the American flag there and I’m Australian, it’s still just as relevant. Lest We Forget.

Thank you. One day I’ll visit all of you with flowers.

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Here’s my favourite picture of Hitler from “LIFE goes to War” to make up for it. On the opposite page it says “Hitler fancied himself a ladies man.”

fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

Guys, do not scroll past this. Watch it. You will enjoy it.