This is a video about history and dolls that simply gets more delightful as we go. #jdraper #london #history #americangirl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukmIXUEDAkE
#JDraper
british records on slavery
#jdraper jdraperlondon
... short video on YouTube but not a YouTubeShorts ...
Mary Seacole Puts Down Clueless Racist Clown
London Tube station names - Like a short masterclass in coming up with folksy names for fantasy places.
https://youtu.be/jWoNdCEzr20?si=2gRGBSD59yuGYquT
New entry on our website: "How Accurate Is “The Muppet Christmas Carol”?: The London History Show"
https://astrocohors.club/2023/12/how-accurate-is-the-muppet-christmas-carol-the-london-history-show/
https://youtu.be/Xyfw3d6dIQg?si=QxjkQanulFyBU8Z4 whiny Londoners: shut your fecking traps about the Christmas tree 🌲 🙄 🎄 #London #TrafalgarSquare #JDraper #History #Christmas #WW2
The other day I was binge watching #JDraper videos on #youtube, in the background, like you sometimes do. Then YouTube decides to swap in videos from another history show and this rather dull sounding British lady is talking about stuff and frankly a little clumsy and slowly I’m like “wait…what? That’s not right!”
The best possible way to be introduced to #PhilomenaCunk #history
learnt quite some interesting things about plays in #Shakespeare's time from this #JDraper video: https://youtu.be/2UZ369VYJrY
Such as how they had no interval where you could pee (also, no toilets at the #theatre), how talking during the play was normal (this seems to make a revival in cinema these days 😂), and how musical jigs were used as a way to get actors who played characters who died, to stand up again as there were no stage curtains or blackouts since plays were done out in the open during the day, because of a general lack of theatre lighting.
Oh, and why it's called an "audience". A bit of #etymology that had never occurred to me...
Definitely worth a watch! (Or a read of its transcript.)
«So, you'll be happy to know you don't have to slog through all of them to read the Canterbury Tales; even Chaucer only managed to finish 24 of them!
In fact, he gives up on writing this before they even make it to Canterbury.
So, for all you writers out there that have a half-finished novel in a drawer, take heart!
Chaucer never finished his main work, and he's the father of English literature!»
— J. Draper, "The Canterbury Tales, or how technology changes the way we speak", The London History Show: https://youtu.be/rZ5znvym68k
#JDraper #CanterburyTales #writing #writers #Chaucer #literature #EnglishLiterature #language #linguistics
I follow her on YouTube as well, and she pointed us to this video. There is a wonderful cover song with James Harker and her. Her voice is quite wonderful.
More #jdraper please. Need to tempt her here.
@intothewestaway I searched to see if #JDraper had joined Mastodon (I follow her on YouTube) and ended up discovering your post with this video. #notdisappointed
De onbekende, begraven tussen koningen https://youtu.be/O6io8UsNt_8
#JDraper #London #Westminster
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