Mine is the French revolution, it was bloody, chaotic,there were heads rolling on the streets.......SO GOTH..........
shareI like to read about Ancient Rome and the lawless American frontier days
WWII and the late 60s/Vietnam era are really fascinating too
The Napoleonic Wars era (1803-1815) Specifically Naval Warfare.
shareForgive me if this has come up before but have you ever read the Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian (Master and Commander '03 was based on the early books)
I remember chatting with someone about these novels here...
Anyway, they are really good reads and VERY detailed about the French and English navies at war
Well, I'm not one to idealize the past.
If I had to live in a historical period, it might be the 1960s, as long as I didn't have to go to Vietnam. All the changes in morality and whatnot, the anti-war movement, the way the culture was rapidly evolving made it an interesting time.
I wouldn't want to go back too much further than that, because I like modern conveniences like indoor plumbing too much.
I’d say the 70s
shareAny era before modern personal hygiene I want nothing to do with.
shareoh it just out of intellectual curiosity, which period you find facinating.......
shareOK. I'm a big fan of the HBO series Rome (others have mentioned Rome).
I am also a big Upstairs, Downstairs fan which begins in the Edwardian Period of England. Also the Tudor period, I watch Elizabeth R, Wolf Hall, A Man For All Seasons, etc.
The history of my hometown NYC is very interesting.
living 1840-1925
lived thru & survived the civil war, reconstruction, indian wars, industrial revolution (in the states), growth of the big cities, the progressive era, the great war, a bit of the jazz age, which given my context would have probably been unpleasant, ducking out just before the great depression, totalitarian convulsions.
You would be witness to so many technological achievements we take for granted today - the telephone, the motor car, the airplane...
shareMy grandmother grew up as a child in a small wooden cottage built by her father from trees he cut down with an axe in rural Victoria in Australia in the very early 1900's. They had no electricity and no running water. They would fetch water in a bucket from a nearby creek. They sewed and made their own clothes. That's not much different to the way people lived going back to the Middle Ages. She lived until the mid 1990's and was still mighty impressed by the electric light. Light at the flick of a switch.
Sounds similar to my granny, who passed away age 99 in 2008. Grew up dirt poor on an apple orchard in central California. The house had no running water, indoor toilet, or electricity. Eventually they did acquire a Ford Model T.
I wrote on another thread, when the 50th anniversary of he moon landing occurred, I remember her at the time taking two pot lids and clanging them together like cymbals, saying "We're on he Moon! We're on the Moon!"