British pathe

Today i found a wonderful you tube channel dedicated to historical film clips called british pathe. Theres some wonderful war clips and of coarse fashion clips! theres even a couple of clips of women from the early 1900's, the end of the victorian era! Its interesting to see a film of the actual people doing normal things instead of a interpretation or reinactement.

Kendo!

A while ago i tuck up kendo just as a fun sport, iI'm not very good at it but its a great workout! The other reason i joined was to learn more about the history and traditions of japan. Japan has a rich history that goes back farther then anything in Canada really, and i really enjoy european and asian history where things go back centuries because of that depth and sense of time.

We as lolitas tend to know a lot about whats going on in japan fashion wise and trend wise but we often don't pay attention to things like politics or history because it doesn't really interest us.

But i figured if I'm going to spend so much time with Anime, manga and fashion from japan i should learn more then just the information given in those, considering that most stories will have changed the history for a better story and loli bloggers don't talk much about history or tradition because they themselves aren't interested. So kendo i figure is a good way to get aquainted with japanese history without pouring over books and the like.

just an idea really, maybe its only me interested in all this history stuff ^^