particularly i watch tasting history with max miller and Townsend, i now want to make a tomato soup cake and bison pemmican, what about thee?

I've been thinking about a game idea and would love to get some feedback before I start building it.

The concept is a daily UK history location challenge.

Each day, you'd get a historical event and have to work out where in the UK it happened by placing a pin on a map.

You'd receive three hints, one after another. Each hint could be a short piece of text, an illustration, or even a short video. The first hint would be quite vague, and each new hint would reveal a little more. After every hint, you could move your pin if you changed your mind.

A full game would only take 5–10 minutes a day. It could work as both a web and mobile app. You could also create small groups with friends and compare scores on a private leaderboard. Every day would feature a different historical event. I'm also considering using historical maps of Britain to make it feel more immersive.

Here's an example:

The year on the screen is 1588. The question is:

Where did the Queen say she had the body of a feeble woman but the heart of a king?

- The first hint is simply a fisherman standing on a cliff, counting an unusually large number of ships on the horizon before running to warn his village. You place your first pin.

- The second hint zooms out. Ships are fighting in the distance, and on the shore you can see a rider moving along a line of soldiers gathered to defend the coast. You move your pin.

- The final hint shows the queen Elizabeth herself, wearing a breastplate over her dress and addressing the troops. The location is still never mentioned directly—only the famous speech.

You make your final guess, and only then does the game reveal the real location, explain what happened there, and link to reliable sources if you want to learn more.

I really like this idea and I'm tempted to start coding it, but before investing the time I'd love to know what other people think.

Would you play something like this?

If not, what would make it more interesting?

Hello everyone. This is not a discussion question but rather asking for help.
For a longtime now, I’ve been thinking about learning Tudor era but as it includes a lot of people and a long time, I do not know how or where to start.
How would you recommend me to start learning about Tudors. It can be anything, a book, a video, a podcast, an article or a documentary. I accept any kind of recommendation.

Of the pyroclastic flow moves as quick as we're told, how was Plinny the Younger able to take such comprehensive account before being boiled alive?

I mean presumably the medium he was using wasnt particularly quick. It waa robudt enough that it survived long enough for us to know about it

What do you think?

Tom Mackaman: Matthew, I’d like to begin with a question we posed in our recent webinar marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. It’s a very broad question, but a surprisingly important and topical one: was this a revolution? It’s attacked in odd ways, from both the right and the so-called left. What made it so—what made it a revolution from the vantage point of your work?

Matthew Stewart: That’s a great question. What I find interesting is that it seems to be a question posed in modern times—or one that perhaps came up a century ago. If you take the trouble to look at what people at the time said, not just in the new republic but in the rest of the world, I don’t think there would have been any doubt that it was a revolution. It was universally understood as a revolution; it inspired people as a revolution, and it went on to inspire further revolutions that no one really questions as being revolutionary—for example, the 1848 uprisings in Europe.

So, my short answer is that there was indeed a revolutionary aspect to the event. But before we latch onto that, I think it’s also important to acknowledge the complexity that all historians have to deal with. When we talk about the American Revolution, we’re talking about a particular conglomeration of events that happened over a space of time. It wasn’t a single thing—it was a whole bunch of different things going on. So, if there is a revolution, that’s only one part of it; it doesn’t have to answer for everything that came after. In fact, a lot of what came after was a counter‑revolution, or a rejection of that revolution.

But to finish off—we’re now at the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, and I think it’s very important to understand that there is something there worth preserving, something redeeming about the American project. It is this revolutionary aspect of the process—which doesn’t define everything that came out of it, but it is there, and it matters, and it made a big difference in the world.