Today I'm pleased to be hosting a guest post looking at the origins of the Hundred Years' War between England and France. This is a topic that comes up quite a lot on this blog, as it's right in my era of expertise, so I'm happy to hear from Talia. Talia is a 19-year-old self-taught future historian focused on Medieval England and the Crusades.

ALT: a girl in a pink skirt is going down a water slide with netflix written on the bottom

Today we have a really interesting guest post lined up for you. I'm happy to introduce Catherine Williams, a graduate student in Early Modern Studies, who will be telling us all about White women in the Early Modern American South. These women held unique positions of power and authority through their scarcity and through the slaves that they owned and managed.

Today we have a really interesting guest post lined up for you. I'm happy to introduce Catherine Williams, a graduate student in Early Modern Studies, who will be telling us all about White women in the Early Modern American South. These women held unique positions of power and authority through their scarcity and through the slaves that they owned and managed.

Fashion is fashionable. It is ever-changing, inspired by culture, religion, and society, and every century has had its own “craze” where people go to extremes that are sometimes criticised by contemporaries, and sometimes by those looking back and wondering “what were they thinking?”. But one trend of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries was that for electric fashion: literally infusing clothes with electricity.

Fashion is fashionable. It is ever-changing, inspired by culture, religion, and society, and every century has had its own “craze” where people go to extremes that are sometimes criticised by contemporaries, and sometimes by those looking back and wondering “what were they thinking?”. But one trend of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries was that for electric fashion: literally infusing clothes with electricity.