#mwpperameme

…that i seriously just made up as an excuse to do stuff i already wanted to in the first place

1 precious baby fave (not a marauder)

2 leaders/figureheads

4 marauders

4 major events/turning points

5 death eaters

5 order members

5 ministry officials

5 civilians/others

6 gender headcanons

6 sexual/romantic headcanons

6 sorting headcanons

7 pieces of social history*

8 lady characters

10 ships/otp's/whatever

10 relationships of any nature

*: i.e., not about battles or what laws are passed on which dates, or the bigger names and happenings of the political, military, diplomatic, legal and/or constitutional, cultural (i.e., the field of history focused on societal and cultural phenomena, popular culture through the ages, studying popular culture as a reflection of the societies that created it, looking at how the concepts we take for granted evolve and how the discourse around them changes, and so on), economic, intellectual (i.e., the field of history focused on major ideas, thinkers, philosophies and theories, major ideological movements, and so on; often called, "the history of ideas"), civil and/or legislative, etc etc. historical narratives

BUT it's also distinct from the "single great man/person" narratives of history, where single ~Great People~ (lbr: it's usually white or hella whitewashed men, whether literally like with a few of the Roman emperors or figuratively, like the sanitized version of Dr. Martin Luther King) are just so influential that they change ALL THE THINGS

basically, social history is concerned with all of the everyday stuff that we don't usually think of as being part of a larger historical anything. it gets derided as being, "apolitical," but the major defense of it is that it's, "history with the people put back in" — which means that it's incapable of being apolitical because of how politics affect every aspect of what falls under the heading of, "social history." like, blah blah blah, "personal is political" sounds trite as fuck but it happens to be true.