#lolitics

Note: this is from a primarily 1930s and 40s blog. Feel free to adapt the questions for earlier or later eras.

🏛️ — your most treasured museum, archival, restoration, or commemorative historical find

🫖 — favorite scandal, crisis, or major political fallout

🌫️ — a mystery or unsolved moment you wish you could witness firsthand

🎩 — figure(s) with the best — or worst — aura

📜 — favorite obscure bureaucratic catastrophe

🥀 — a historical inaccuracy in media that aggravates you the most

🔍 — topics, eras, or themes you think deserve far more attention

🗃️ — favorite piece(s) of niche media

🕯️ — a figure who is unduly hated or unduly beloved by popular history

📚 — something new you learned from my blog that you want to know more about

🌴 — a figure you’d trust to survive a desert island with

🧭 — a turning point in a figure’s life you think is criminally misunderstood or misinterpreted

🎞️ — a film, newsreel, or propaganda piece you’d love to see (or have seen) in its original form

💣 — a near-disaster, coup, or crisis that could have gone very differently

❤️ — favorite history or history-themed blogs other than your own

🎻 — a personal, human detail from a leader or figure that history often overlooks

🚪 — a small, seemingly minor event that ended up having huge historical consequences