Remember fellow time travellers, make sure no pottery painting artist spots you when you're working on your laptop back in the past!
Disclaimer; he's writing on a wax tablet with a stylus, ye eejit.
Douris cup, c.480BC. Berlin, Antikenmuseen
Here's a replica, they're a lot of fun to use, I got one somewhere in the attic, you can write, draw and easily erase your work again.
If you're a teacher, work in a museum or are just an ambitious and/or desperate parent, these are relatively easy to make and kids love them, also great excuse to teach them about literacy perhaps being more common than was long thought and about... ONFIM!!
Writing on bark is also fun to do and yes, I'm only adding this to once more lure you to my thread about lovely Onfim, the Medieval kid who left us his homework;
And just because I'm on a roll, here's another great example, 2000 year old homework that also shows you that with different wax and a good background it becomes easier to read; bl.uk/collection-ite…
These are from the 6th century, yes the "dark ages", when there was no writing or education or any advancement... cough cough.
Found in an Irish bog. 100objects.ie/springmount-wa…
A few days ago I complained about a Guardian article using a bad photo from a film in an article about Joan Clarke, a Bletchley Park code breaker, but... something much worse might have happened...
I don't think this photo they used is of Joan...
@TeaKayB pointed this out to me and I was stunned, surely not, that would be extraordinary sloppy.
So I looked into it, of course.
For starters the image they used is flipped, here's the full picture as it should look:
Time to look at another photo album in my collection, a tiny one this time with one picture on each page, showing us the adventures of some Dutch girl scouts in the early 1930s.
This Friday the game 'Manor Lord' is coming out, it's a medieval city builder that I've made a modest contribution to as a historical consultant and beta tester for.
I've been very excited about it for a long time and I'm not the only one, it's creating quite a buzz and has ended up on a lot of wishlists.
What I love about it most is that it tries to depict the middle ages in an accurate way, behind the scenes historians, experts & history addicts have been debating the tiniest details.
I think the result is one of the most historically accurate medieval games I've ever played.
#Manorlords
So let's have a sneak peek at it shall we?
First, here's an official video:
Before you start you set up your profile and design your own family crest, look familiar?
This bit alone is SUCH fun, you can fiddle and play with this editor for ages till you get exactly what you want and then you'll see it on the banners in the game!
SUCH FUN!
Sigh.
An account with half a million followers just tweeted that long debunked 'life in the 1500s' nonsense, 2.2 million people have seen it.
So here we go again...