Blogging about the past

[Tocotin]

Originally Posted by Flicka

I wrote up a post of an infamous Swedish murder case from 1889 (again!) which was a right Freudian nightmare: http://www.belleepoqueexplorer.blogs...of-yngsjo.html

I liked this post. I wonder though, why didn't she appeal for mercy if her son did?

[Flicka]

Originally Posted by Tocotin

I liked this post. I wonder though, why didn't she appeal for mercy if her son did?

She actually did, but her request was turned down.

The courts had found, partly based on her own admittance, that she had been the driving force and possibly even the sole executor of the murder so they placed the larger blame on her. But part of the reason was also that it was felt that he was a victim, damaged from his mother's sexual abuse and manipulative behaviour from an early age. That was how the neighbours felt and why they welcomed him back into their fold - they pitied him and blamed the (according to them) "unnatural" mother.

[flapperphilosopher]

A few of my latest ones:

Photos of World War One planes in the air, from the air

Early 20th C photos of Iceland

Young couples in Japan, 1958

Non-portrait daguerreotypes

P. S. Flicka, I can't seem to get your latest post-- it says blog not found. Address change perhaps? I'm intruiged and want to read it!

[Flicka]

Originally Posted by flapperphilosopher

P. S. Flicka, I can't seem to get your latest post-- it says blog not found. Address change perhaps? I'm intruiged and want to read it!

It's here: http://victorianexplorer.blogspot.co...of-yngsjo.html

[flapperphilosopher]

Originally Posted by Flicka

It's here: http://victorianexplorer.blogspot.co...of-yngsjo.html

There we go... thanks!!

[Flicka]

I'm part Sami, and since today is international Sami Day, I wanted to celebrate it by sharing some photos taken on an expedition to Lapland in 1868: http://victorianexplorer.blogspot.se...land-1868.html

I think their faces bear testament to the extremely hard conditions they lived under, and it makes me rather proud of my ancestors for carving out a living in a really inhospitable land.

[angeliz2k]

I've recently added two blog entries, neither of which are actually related at all to the general topic of the blog (ancien regime France). One's for my Writerly Wednesday series (I tackled a bit of editing), and one is about the recent discovery of Richard III's bones.

[Tepelus]

Today marks the 570th anniversary of the birth of King Matyas of Hungary, one of the greatest rulers of the country and the first monarch outside of Italy to embrace the Renaissance. So I wrote a blog post on him.

[twasadark]

[QUOTE=flapperphilosopher;7579996]It's actually good to see you're nervous about it. Far too many people don't ever even think about the issue of image copyright, or assume just saying "I'm not claiming I made this" and/or "fair use" covers it. That's not okay.

But! The great thing with old photos is that there are all these wonderful institutions comitted to making their collections as accessible as possible, which often means letting you use their images. Time for a tour, with examples.

I agree with this! IMHO we should be scrupulous about copyrights. I write educational materials for a living, and the publishers and schools I work with get a lot of their images free at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page. Just be sure to look at the permissions portion of the image page. Many times it is in the public domain or has a creative commons license.

[Flicka]

In a fit of pretentiousness, I decided to combine my professional interest in law and my passionate interest in history by asking if the application of British law in colonial India did in fact perpetuate the existing power structures or if it helped undermine them:

http://victorianexplorer.blogspot.co...petuating.html

[angeliz2k]

http://queensransom.wordpress.com/20...iostro-part-2/

More of my laborious efforts to translate 18th-century French. It's slow going, but the results were fairly interesting this time. It's an interrogation of Count Cagliostro, the mystic/charlatan.

The best part: Google translate came up with this phrase: "he f*cked and disposed of the diamonds". Way to go, Google translate.

PS: I also recently posted two writing-related posts. Check 'em out if you're so inclined.

[ConnieBDowell]

Translation is definitely an art, angeliz2k!

I don't have a historical post to share, rather the promise of one--and quite a few more if anyone joins me. I'm hosting a Women's History Month Blog Hop on March 15, 2013. Link in the signature.