Time period: late 1970s Location: Western setting.

A 14 year old girl who is not very cluey wakes one night with extreme gut pains, then to her horror, a gush of blood. I'm talking puddle-on-the-mattress amount of blood - probably about 500mls. ( Next bit cut for the gore. )

I'm looking (again) for some historical background for a poem I'm working on. It is based off of a real event ( Read more... )

I've tried many Google searches for things like restaurants and cafes in London in the 1970s (or '60s or '80s just to get closer), food prices in the UK at this time, and an inflation calculator, which kind of spat out decontextualized and unhelpful numbers. I have also looked through older tagged posts in this community. None of that was terribly ( Read more... )

Setting: Fictional country, 1970s-current ( Read more... )

I have a character who served in the British Armed forces in the 1970s who is looking, for the first time, at an armed forces issue pistol from the past five years - i.e., an unspecified moment between about 2010 and today (time travel is involved). I'm assuming it is a Browning Hi Power pistol - it could be a Glock 17 but a Browning seems more ( Read more... )

Setting: late 1960s early 1970s - small town in America ( Read more... )

The era I am setting my story in is vaguely 70s and vaguely Oxbridge, and my main character is a post PHD researcher stuck in a small museum similar to the Pitt Rivers, doing grunt work and going through that awful “so what now” grey dirge that happens post education in your mid 20s.
There's a discovery of 112 letters set in a psuedo medieval land, ( Read more... )

Hi guys,

I've recently been looking into the educational systems and holiday customs of different countries for something I've been working on for awhile. Background and setting under the cut:

( Questions and links to things I've found as well as background. )

("Clothing" doesn't quite apply, but I unfortunately couldn't find "fashion" among the tags.)


( Read more... )

Hi guys ( Read more... )