social history

Hopefully this isn't redundant, I looked and didn't find anything. I'm writing a historical fiction novel, and wanted to get a better handle on the societal expectations placed on upper class young men, in their early to mid twenties. I know women were expected to marry, and that men were more...

I've always found one of the the most powerful scenes in the 97 film is when Thomas Andrews shortly after reporting to the bridge crew and Ismay that 'No matter what you do Titanic will flounder' is walking through the Grand Staircase still in shock. Rose pulls him aside and he admits to her...

Captain Smith and I share the same house in ~Waterloo Liverpool England. He lived here in 1898 to 1907 and there are so many interesting snippets of social history never before recorded against his time in Waterloo. For example he was awarded a medal by King Edward whilst living here, imagine...