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rose_griffes) wrote2009-09-13 12:31 pm
rose_griffes) wrote2009-09-13 12:31 pm
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Dear f'list: HELP!
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millari I've been trying to do some research about Great Britain in 1913, particularly life for someone who is in the working class and black. Google-fu is actually harder to work for this than for the US, because our own history of racism had laws relating to it that are well-documented.
Before I resort to posting questions on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
little_details I thought I'd see if anyone has any input. Would a black woman working as a servant with white women in a boys' boarding school share a room with the other female servants? I'm having a hard time finding anything out. I would guess that all of the 'lower-class' women working there would share a room, simply because black women in Great Britain were such a small minority that having a separate room would be unfeasible and generally unneeded. Most Brits living in 1913 had probably never seen a black person unless they lived in a large port town. (My assumption that the female servants share a room is based on... probably watching too many historical dramas and reading too much Agatha Christie when I was young. If anyone wants to correct this idea, jump right in!)
Based solely on the fact that Great Britain had very few black residents in the Edwardian era (almost all were men whose work connected to the shipping/sailing industries, from what I've found), I'm making the assumption that Martha's ancestors were still living in Africa or maybe the Caribbean in 1913. The majority of blacks in the UK came post-World War II.
Websites I have learned to avoid so far while doing various searches related to history and race: hereticalpress dot com/dot co dot uk, stormfront dot org. I expect the list will get longer. Ick. And they keep popping up early in the results of the searches I'm doing.
Doctor Who canon stuff: does Martha know that for the TARDIS to do its translation fiddly magic stuff, the Doctor has to be self-aware? (He does, really! Remember in 'The Christmas Invasion,' the translating thingy didn't work while Ten was unconscious after regeneration?) Is it canon that the TARDIS can interfere in dreams, or is that just a fanon thing? I'm probably going to use it either way, I'm just curious.
Is there an LJ community for questions about Doctor Who canon? (We havebsg_canon for Battlestar Galactica stuff, just in case anyone was unaware of its existence.) Also, any idea where I can get transcripts of DW episodes? Good transcripts? Sad to say, the ones for BSG that I've seen on that twizt-whatever website are rife with errors.
I'm sort of floundering around on this story idea. IN CASE THIS WASN'T OBVIOUS. But Martha wants me to write it! heh And as soon as it's done, I'm going to pop the Ultraviolet dvd's I now own into the player and write shippy Angie/Vaughan fic.
*stomps feet with determination*
I just hope I can get the Martha fic done before the end of the month... ish. Since it's mostly gen (with some pining), it should work as my story for thefemgenficathon.
millari I've been trying to do some research about Great Britain in 1913, particularly life for someone who is in the working class and black. Google-fu is actually harder to work for this than for the US, because our own history of racism had laws relating to it that are well-documented. Before I resort to posting questions on
little_details I thought I'd see if anyone has any input. Would a black woman working as a servant with white women in a boys' boarding school share a room with the other female servants? I'm having a hard time finding anything out. I would guess that all of the 'lower-class' women working there would share a room, simply because black women in Great Britain were such a small minority that having a separate room would be unfeasible and generally unneeded. Most Brits living in 1913 had probably never seen a black person unless they lived in a large port town. (My assumption that the female servants share a room is based on... probably watching too many historical dramas and reading too much Agatha Christie when I was young. If anyone wants to correct this idea, jump right in!)Based solely on the fact that Great Britain had very few black residents in the Edwardian era (almost all were men whose work connected to the shipping/sailing industries, from what I've found), I'm making the assumption that Martha's ancestors were still living in Africa or maybe the Caribbean in 1913. The majority of blacks in the UK came post-World War II.
Websites I have learned to avoid so far while doing various searches related to history and race: hereticalpress dot com/dot co dot uk, stormfront dot org. I expect the list will get longer. Ick. And they keep popping up early in the results of the searches I'm doing.
Doctor Who canon stuff: does Martha know that for the TARDIS to do its translation fiddly magic stuff, the Doctor has to be self-aware? (He does, really! Remember in 'The Christmas Invasion,' the translating thingy didn't work while Ten was unconscious after regeneration?) Is it canon that the TARDIS can interfere in dreams, or is that just a fanon thing? I'm probably going to use it either way, I'm just curious.
Is there an LJ community for questions about Doctor Who canon? (We have
bsg_canon for Battlestar Galactica stuff, just in case anyone was unaware of its existence.) Also, any idea where I can get transcripts of DW episodes? Good transcripts? Sad to say, the ones for BSG that I've seen on that twizt-whatever website are rife with errors.I'm sort of floundering around on this story idea. IN CASE THIS WASN'T OBVIOUS. But Martha wants me to write it! heh And as soon as it's done, I'm going to pop the Ultraviolet dvd's I now own into the player and write shippy Angie/Vaughan fic.
*stomps feet with determination*
I just hope I can get the Martha fic done before the end of the month... ish. Since it's mostly gen (with some pining), it should work as my story for the
femgenficathon.
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I think that's just a convention of newskool. For instance, Four spent a lot of time unconscious, but Sarah could still understand the Italian spoken during Mask of Mandragora perfectly fine.
Don't know about the rest.
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Ah, interesting. Thanks for the info!
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Transcripts: here are New Who ones.
Translation thing: as was said by your other commentator, no, he doesn't, not if you take Old Who into account. There are really too many examples of companions able to converse with not-English-speakers while the Doctor was out of commission and/or amnesiac to say otherwise. Mind you, you can fanwank the Christmas Invasion incident easily because after the mind sharing with Rose AND the regeneration crisis the TARDIS was bound to behave excentric for a while.
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