75 Historical Writing Prompts

75 Historical writing prompts
1. Attends a ball
2. Chaperonnes a young person
3. Takes a carriage without an idea where to go
4. Writes a story
5. Goes to a political meeting
6. Tutors a young student
7. Meets an old suitor
8. Visits an art gallery
9. Reads a newspaper
10. Runs away from home to get married
11. Overhears a conversation about him/her
12. Is asked to play in company
13. Accidentally ends up in a very poor part of a big town
14. Celebrates a birthday
15. Bakes a cake for someone
16. Meets a famous historical person
17. Visits his/her cousins
18. Goes abroad
19. Goes up on the social ladder
20. Goes down on the social ladder
21. Has his/her first ice cream
22. Helps someone give birth
23. Causes a scene
24. Asks someone for their hand in marriage
25. Is rejected
26. Receives a large inheritance
27. Enters into an arranged marriage
28. Goes up to town
29. Hosts a dinner party
30. Is sent to live with relatives in the country
31. Stops at an inn
32. Does a good deed
33. Takes in an orphan
34. Goes swimming
35. Argues with his/her partner
36. Talks to someone about something serious that’s going on in the world
37. Is the centre of gossip
38. Pretends to be someone else
39. Doesn’t get on with his/her partner’s family
40. Does some embroidery
41. Buys a new dress
42. Sings a nursery rhyme
43. Goes to the market
44. Reads a book that’s considered scandalous
45. Has his/her portrait taken
46. Goes out riding
47. Finds out she’s pregnant
48. Goes to Brighton for sea-bathing
49. Gives someone a lock of hair
50. Sees fireworks
51. Is photographed
52. Is snowed in
53. Has to work for his/her money
54. Attends a funeral
55. Pretends to faint
56. Walks a long distance
57. Loses a great deal of money
58. Enters into speculation
59. Visits a factory
60. Takes a room in a boarding house
61. Fears becoming an old maid
62. Makes a social visit to someone they do not like
63. Tries out his/her matchmaking skills
64. Mourns the death of someone he/she should not be mourning
65. Tries a new style of dress
66. Is forced to go to the workhouse
67. Goes to war
68. Trains to be a nurse
69. Goes to university
70. Dances a waltz
71. Tours the continent with a relative
72. Goes out hunting
73. Talks to someone about the role of women in their time
74. Meets the country’s current monarch
75. Does something that is considered too modern and a little scandalous.