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9. Favourite historical film?

Probably a tie between Howard’s End and Maurice. Another Country and Regeneration close tie for second. And then maybe Pollyanna.

13. Something random about some random historical person in a random era.

Freud sincerely thought Woodrow Wilson, the 28th United States President and architect of the League of Nations following WWI, was gay. Specifically, “a passive homosexual.” And also that Woodrow Wilson thought he himself was Christ and his father, Joseph Ruggles Wilson, was God.

Don’t believe me? Ask the Smithsonian: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-drove-sigmund-freud-write-scandalous-biography-woodrow-wilson-180970042/

16. Do you own some historical item? ( coin, clothing, weapons, books, ect) If yes which one is your favourite?

Yes lol. 2 of note, a first (and only) edition of Piano Quartet by Edward Sackville-West (yes, *that* Sackville-West’s brother)

And then my favorite: A first edition, first printing of George Bernard Shaw’s “The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism.” (Pictures below) It was given to me as a gag gift by a dear friend but I love and hate GBS so much and it’s a beautiful and extremely rare copy, so it’s a 10/10

But also my copies of Fanny Hill and Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. Porn historian loves their historical porn, shocking, ik.

“The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.”