Illustrations of history

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This magazine is for sharing artwork of historical events, places, personages, etc. Scale models and the like also welcome!

Generally speaking, actual photos of a historical item should go to [email protected]

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Yet another castle diagram (they never get old, tbh) (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

make a huge, double-page drawing to teach children everything about castles.

Go so far as to draw the holes for hoardings, wooden stairs on the inside, a raised bailey entrance and even accurately showing how a slope of a mote would be dug.

Only 4 things highlighted in the key.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

My recollection of these books is you’d have a few pages of this castle, with cutaways.

The 4 things highlighted here would have had a blurb and explanation of importance.

Chances are the next page would be the same castle with some cutaways and more key / description.

These books ruled