Hello, Haveners!!!

It’s time for Historical Role-Play Chat #2. Everyone excited?

This is where you’ll do all of your chatting as your characters, first person. Feel free to look up whatever you need to during the chat. For more information on this chat, including the rules, see the introduction.

As you’ll have seen in our last chat, the ( Read more... )

Hello, Haveners!

I’d say the first Historical Role-play Chat was a huge success! Congratulations and well done to all of you who participated. I know I walked away (figuratively) with a much better sense of how each of your characters saw the world.

And now, welcome to the intro for the Second Historical Role-play Chat!! You’re getting to call ( Read more... )

Aaaaaaaaaand we’re back! Hope you’ve done your research, historical role-play-ers, because it’s test time!!!!!!!

…Just kidding there. Feel free to look up whatever you need to while you’re talking (since this isn’t in chat format, no one will know you didn’t know about your character’s childhood until you got asked about it). I know I’ll have to.

For ( Read more... )

Welcome to another one of history_haven 's summer events, the historical movie discussion!

Each month this summer, I will post a link to a movie for you all to watch along with some points for you to discuss.

The pick this month is...

Marie Antoinette


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Hello, Haveners!

And welcome to the kickoff of this summer’s crazy antics. Lady Jane and I have some cool stuff planned, so check back from time to time.

Our first event is the historical role-play thread. The thread itself will be posted two weeks from now, to give everyone time to research their character.

Here’s how it works:

1.    Everyone ( Read more... )

This is something I wrote on the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference summarizing what happened during these talks. It was quite a disappointing topic.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_Summit

EXCERPT:    In my opinion, the 2009 UN Climate Change ( Read more... )

Tamora Pierce wrote a memorable post "Where Are The Women?" on her blog a few months ago, & she's been following up on it ever since. In this post [http://tammypierce.livejournal.com/31973.html], she links to a BBC slideshow about wings of Soviet women pilots who ( Read more... )

The Haven now has 40 members!

Yaaahhhhh!!!

Go and party people!

Thank you for joining, and I hope you enjoy the forum.

Now, for a discussion to celebrate.

If you could live in any historical time period, when would it be?

Good day!!! or Good Evening to those in a different time zone.

I would like to post a question here hoping you would answer it, Mira asked me this a little while before.

If you could make a choice of marrying a historical figure (or just having a relationship), who would it be and why?

I think I like Edward VI, Henry VIII's son, Elizabeth I's brother ( Read more... )

History Haven has reached 30 members!!! We're moving up in the world, guys; tell all your friends about us! Since we've got so many members now, might be time to have a get to know each other discussion. Because we all love those ( Read more... )