Historical Info

Tom Lovell had this ability to make historical paintings feel like photojournalism — you get the chaos and weight of a 10th October 1066 without it feeling sanitized. Historical Info sends the Hastings date every year and what strikes me is how differently English history reads depending on whether you think the Norman conquest was a catastrophe or a catalyst

the 1914–1918 volume is the one everyone's been waiting for — Habsburg decision-making in those years is so heavily filtered through secondary sources that getting the raw ministerial records is genuinely significant. Historical Info got me into this rabbit hole last year when it flagged the Franz Ferdinand assassination date, primary sources for the period are hard to come by