01. In Connie Willis's novel "Doomsday Book," "Time-Traveling Historians" journey back in time to study history firsthand. Kivrin, a historian, finds herself stranded in the midst of the Black Plague.
Hand drawn illustrations make this parchment toned poster a beautiful addition to any home, classroom, studio, or office in this very convenient 2 ft by 5 ft size. The WORLD HISTORY TIMELINE depicts 5,000 years of major historical events in this unique, easy to use staircase format. The research that went into the WORLD HISTORY TIMELINE highlights what many scholars agree are some of the most significant historical eras and events since prehistoric times. Students of all ages can use this invaluable and beautiful reference tool. Every image and line has been hand etched in scratch board to make this not only an invaluable educational reference tool but also a beautiful work of art. The WORLD HISTORY TIMELINE Poster compliments any WORLD HISTORY curriculum, AP WORLD HISTORY, and IB WORLD HISTORY.
In The Historian, a young woman discovers an ancient book of letters. She plummets into a world of family secrets and unimaginable evils. Will she take up the
For all my blogging babes that want to up their flat lay game, I've got all the tips and tricks on how to perfect a gorgeous travel flat lay.
Project Passport Bundle (all 5 world history studies) Our world history studies are designed to create a hands-on learning experience that drives the lessons home in a fun way! Each Project Passport in this curriculum contains 25 "Stops" (lessons) including Guide Book Text to read on a topic and a Travel Itinerary for project choices and directions. Masters for all printables are included. • Suggested grades: 3-8 • Mac & PC Compatible • ISBN: 9780991367894 • All Text, Masters, Directions, Photos, and Resource Lists Provided (Supplies Not Included) • More information on: Ancient Egypt • More information on: Ancient Greece • More information on: Ancient Rome • More information on: The Middle Ages • More information on: Renaissance & Reformation
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So good you'll want to read in one sitting!
A look at the best online history resources available in 2020 to get you through the quarantine, including museums and tours!
This book tells the history of Herat, from its desolation under Chingiz Khan in 1222, to its capitulation to Tamerlane in 1381. Unlike the other three quarters of Khurasan (Balkh, Marw, Nishapur), which were ravaged by the Mongols, Herat became an important political, cultural and economic centre of the eastern Islamic world. The post-Mongol age in which an autochthonous Tajik dynasty, the Kartids, ruled the region set the foundations for Herat's Timurid-era splendors. Divided into two parts (a political-military history and a social-economic history), the book explains why the Mongol Empire rebuilt Herat: its rationales and approaches; and Chinggisid internecine conflicts that impacted on Herat's people. It analyses the roles of Iranians, Turks and Mongols in regional politics; in devising fortifications; in restoring commercial and cultural edifices; and in resuscitating economic and cultural activities in the Herat Quarter.
I have already shared my gift guide for historians and history buffs, but I have had quite a few more requests specifically for history books that people can give as a gift. Although my voracious reading habit can sometimes be a pain (there is never enough […]
Dear architecture buffs, book lovers and library aficionados: A new book just arriving...
Egyptian Hieroglyphs first appeared in writing around 3300 BC and continued to evolve as a living language until the fourteenth century AD. Over the span of more than four millennia, the language underwent significant changes. The gap between Middle Egyptian – the phase of the language in which the famous tale of Sinuhe was written …
I’ve been on an ancient history kick lately, which then segued into reading about Tutankhamun (2016) (currently available on Amazon Prime as The Mummy of Tutankhamun), an ITV miniseries about…
It seems like ages since I did any costuming, and summer isn't exactly my favorite season to be layering on corsets and petticoats, but...the time has come for some Edwardian adventure wear! I think I'll start with a simple skirt and an ivory shirtwaist, luckily I already have an Edwardian corset. Now I just have to draft some patterns and go fabric shopping :) Those of you costumers out there, what are you working on this summer? (See more images that are inspiring me for this costume on my costuming Pinterest board here)
Travel back in time with the best time travel books, including engrossing thrillers, romance, contemporary lit, and mind-bending sci-fi.
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We explore the top things to do in Thanjavur, each offering a unique glimpse into the rich tapestry that makes up this magnificent city.
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A look at the best online history resources available in 2020 to get you through the quarantine, including museums and tours!
Unlock the Secrets of Time with National Time Traveler's Day Activities! Celebrate the wonders of time travel in your classroom with this comprehensive and engaging product. Whether you're delving into the history of the holiday or igniting creativity with futuristic fashion shows, this resource has you covered. Designed for educators seeking a captivating blend of history, imagination, and critical thinking, this pack includes: 1. Time-Traveler's History Reading: Explore the origins and significance of National Time Traveler's Day through an informative and engaging reading. 2. Your Time Traveling Experience: Invite students to embark on a unique journey as they imagine and document their personal time-traveling experiences. 3. Futuristic Fashion Show: Unleash creativity with an exciting project where students design and explain their vision of futuristic fashion. 4. Time Traveler's Art Gallery: Showcase students' artistic talents as they create stunning artwork inspired by different time periods. 5. Time Capsule Project: A Letter to Your Graduating Self: Foster reflection and anticipation as students compose letters to their future selves, to be opened upon graduation. 6. Writing Prompt: "A Day in the Life of a Time Traveler": Spark imaginative storytelling with a prompt that encourages students to envision the daily adventures of a time traveler. 7. The Time Traveler's Journal: Cultivate writing skills and creativity through the creation of a captivating journal documenting "travels" to various historical periods. 8. Time-Travel Story Writing: Ignite literary passion with a creative writing assignment that encourages students to explore time travel through short stories or comic strips. 9. Time Traveler's Debate: Foster critical thinking and persuasive communication in a classroom debate where students take on the roles of time travelers. Embrace the excitement of National Time Traveler's Day with this all-in-one package! Aligned with curriculum standards and designed for easy implementation, these activities will transport your students into the past, future, and realms of creativity. Elevate your teaching with this resource that combines fun, learning, and the mysteries of time! Get ready to embark on an educational adventure with National Time Traveler's Day Activities - where every moment is a chance to learn and explore! Like this activity, check out the other resources and more - Click Here For More On My TPT Store * Be the first to hear about my new products and discounts! * Click HERE to become a follower on TPT. You will then see my updates!
Synopsis Expand/Collapse Synopsis An imaginative retelling of London’s history, framed through the experiences of Indigenous travelers who came to the city over the course of more than five centuries London is famed both as the ancient center of a former empire and as a modern metropolis of bewildering complexity and diversity. In Indigenous London, historian Coll Thrush offers an imaginative vision of the city's past crafted from an almost entirely new perspective: that of Indigenous children, women, and men who traveled there, willingly or otherwise, from territories that became Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the United States, beginning in the sixteenth century. They included captives and diplomats, missionaries and shamans, poets and performers. Some, like the Powhatan noblewoman Pocahontas, are familiar; others, like an Odawa boy held as a prisoner of war, have almost been lost to history. In drawing together their stories and their diverse experiences with a changing urban culture, Thrush also illustrates how London learned to be a global, imperial city and how Indigenous people were central to that process.
Ibn Battutah - ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist - was just twenty-one when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on...
As Anna Quindlen says “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination and the journey. They are home." In order to embrace
An Historian About Town highlights 3 places to find history books that are eluding you- in 2020, there are more places than ever!
As November came to an end, Tony and I spent nine lovely days in Vancouver this year. He was there for work and I was fortunate to be able to tag along, thus getting to enjoy my only trip so far (and most likely, for all of) this year. I'd long made peace with the idea that I wouldn't be traveling at all in 2015, so the sudden surprise of this getaway and the ensuing days spent in Vancouver was really and truly one of the best (early) Christmas presents I could have possibly asked for. Like most enjoyable trips, this one felt like it flew by about as quickly as it takes to zip up a suitcase. Yet over the course of those nine days, I had a chance to do a lot of deep thinking - something, a blessing really, that travel almost always affords me and which is actually one of my favourite elements of getting away from home for a while - and also to be presented with various reminders of why it's so incredibly important to venture forth from our usual locations and daily lives alike at least every once in a while. While most of us might, objectively, already be aware of the following points, it can be humbling and poignant alike to be reminded of them when we travel. Each of the following seven life lessons arose from me and/or both of us on our recent trip to Vancouver and while they're still all bracingly fresh in my mind, I wanted to share them here with you. 1. The journey can be as important as the final destination: This is so, so true. Case in point in a rather literal sense of the meaning: en route to Vancouver our GPS got a bit confused in the small town of Hope (as it has in the past) and ended up suggesting we take the back route (well, more like the non-highway route as opposed to an actual off-the-beaten path road). At first we worried this would slow down our arrival time, but in the end it did no such thing and was an exciting way to go through several small and medium sized towns that I hadn't seen since I was a youngster and which Tony had never even so much as driven through so far. Each one brought back its own fun memories from many (many!) years ago and made me realize just how much time had elapsed since I was last in the neck of the (urban) woods. So don't fear if you get a little lost, side tracked or turned around. It's all good and chances are, it will all work out in the end. Enjoy, savour, and relish the journey, for it is often every bit as amazing (and memorable!) as the destination itself. 2. The more you travel, the more you grow as a person: Seriously, you do. You learn things about yourself, you think outside of the box (or suitcase!), you make compromises, you try new things, you put some of your fears on the back burner, you challenge your own perceptions, you are confronted by personal demons and angels alike, and often you come home wiser (and more sure of your future) than when you left. 3. There's no time like the present: When in Rome is scarcely more apt than on a trip - be it to Italy or elsewhere. Seize the moment, give that funky looking restaurant a try, go parasailing with the friends you just made two days ago, splurge on that vintage hat/record/mountain bike/etc that you know you'll likely never find the same one of you in town (or perhaps even anywhere!), take a million photos (and Instagram them all!), go night swimming - just have a blast, live in the moment, and really get to know the soul of your destination. Chances are, it will stay with your own for ages to come. 4. You can easily - and happily - get by for a long time (if not forever) with a substantially reduced number of possessions and/or a small living space: I've never lived in a particularly large house, however all but a couple of my homes have been a fair bigger than your average budget friendly hotel room, yet I'm often struck when in one (a hotel room, that is) how easily and happily I can manage with the basic creature comforts (bed, powder room, hopefully a kitchenette, a desk or table and chairs, etc) and not yearn for more. Ditto for whatever I packed in my suitcase(s). It might not have seemed like a ton back home, but in the sun or man-made light streaming through a hotel window, it often seems like an abundance and I delight in the creative styling challenges that such a small (temporary) capsule wardrobe provides. Each time I travel, I feel the need for less and less back home and am ever more content with what I already have. 5. We all need to step away from our computers/phones/tablets more often: The irony of saying this on a blog is not lost on me, I promise you. The longer that society as a whole becomes ever more immersed in the digital world, the more I feel, incredibly strongly, that we truly need to take more time out of most days to ensure that we connect with the real world, too. Get out there. Smell the salt air, let the wind whip your scarf around, read in the park, walk the joyfully noisy streets of a big city, fall asleep under the stars. By all means, we can certainly use and benefit from the web, but we also need the original spider webs tangled in Mother Nature garden, real smiles not just emoticons, hugs from people in person, not merely trivial likes on a glowing electronic screen. 6. You may very well hate and also love a great deal about yourself and your current life while you travel: Without fail, I experience this to some degree whenever I travel. It's become almost like a ritual of sorts for me, but just like an intense sauna session, I know that from it, I'll sweat out some proverbial toxins and emerge with a clearer head and a renewed glow about me, so I roll with the punches and let them help to - see point #2 above - become a happier/wiser/hopefully better person. In the same vein, I find it's important to remember that the person you are when you're away from your home environment - be it hiking the Alps, shopping in NYC, or touring a castle in Scotland - is not necessarily the same individual that you may be when you're at your usual house, living your daily life, working your usual job, and dealing with the all of the pressures big and small of home. So just because you may experience such a roller coaster of thoughts and emotions, it doesn't mean that you're doing a complete 180 for good - though sometimes it does and that can be incredible unto itself. 7. Traveling can help you be bolder and or more confident and/or outgoing: Hard as it may be for those who have never known me in person to believe, I am quite often ridiculously shy, I'm the poster child for introverts everywhere, and I am not exactly world famous for being the most outgoing of people. I don't see these as negatives per se (especially not being an introvert, I adore that I am the way that I am on that front), but sometimes I'm the first to admit that it would be great to be less shy/timid and interestingly, I am often more fearless and apt to "put myself out there" when I travel. I think the excitement, happiness and adrenaline of traveling all play a huge roll there, but it could also be the fact that I know, I may never get a chance to seize said moment (aka, point #4) again and don't want to miss it just because I have a swarm of butterflies in my stomach. No matter where you usually fall on shy to turbo outgoing scale, travel gives us the chance to push the boulders that are our comfort zones and discover new sides of ourselves in the process, which can definitely better our lives once we're home (sweet home) again. {Travel can be awash with important lessons of all sizes. These are but seven of them, each of which I was recently reminded of. What are some of the things you've learned and/or been reminded of thanks to taking trips? Stylish vintage lady traveler/adventurer image source.} ♥ ♥ ♥ I don't think that I've ever travelled, even just for a long weekend, away from my usual corner of the world and not had thoughts that went on to alter my future, be it on a small or a grand scale. When I travel, I often feel like I could let go of almost everything (save for our pets and my closest relationships) at home and be completely, 100% happy - and who knows, maybe I could be, but that isn't realistic and it certainly isn't apt to happen anytime soon (if ever). For me, that desire goes back to points number 4 and 6 above in particular. I firmly believe that we're not always the same people when we travel and while a few days, weeks, or even months away from our usual existence can be a true godsend/very helpful/healing/cathartic experience, after a while, most of us would still want to return to at least some elements of the world, career and set of goals that we've worked so hard to create up until this point. Instead of parting ways entirely with our lives, often the far smarter and more rational approach is to keep thinking about those important thoughts that we had while we were away and use them to build, better, change, and improve our worlds once we've returned home, unpacked the last item from our toiletries bag, and uploaded our travel snaps to our computers. So often we - very understandably - forget that we have the power to just that - to alter our lives in ways big and small - and that we can, and should, do just that on a very regular basis. Some things are set in stone or unable to really be altered, but others often can be. Doing so might be scary, risky, expensive, or unknown, but those are not reasons to let our desire to grow and to be happier beings hold us back for one red second. On the drive home, snow covered mountains flanking each side of the steep mountain roads we were traversing, Tony and I talked about this very point and decided that the actions we'll take from here on out - some presently known, others to be discovered as time goes on - in the pursuit of such will be called our Happiness Project. We'll be looking for ways to concretely make our days even happier and to focus, realistically, on more of what we truly - in our heart of hearts - want out of life. For the greatest journey any of us will ever take is life itself and on that trip, there is always more to learn and see and do, which hopefully will include plenty more actual travelling to destinations near and far alike – lessons aplenty no doubt served up along the way.
