Which parts of history interest you the most?

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Build up to and including World War II
The Victorian era
The Romans
Trojan History (Even if most of it is supposed to be a myth, it's still very entertaining to read about and gave us a bloody brilliant DW story in the 60s to boot!) 
St. Bartholomew's Day massacre (I actually knew next to nothing about this sad event until I watched the Doctor Who story. It's actually a really engrossing event)

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I'm not the biggest ancient history fan I have to say. The translations that come down to us are rarely adequate in conveying the apparent power with which the original texts were imbued. Maybe if I learned Latin or Greek, it'd be a different story.

Literarily my favourite period would have to be the English Renaissance (c. 1500-1603), though followed closely by the Medieval and "chaotic age" of the 19th/20th centuries respectively. The 17th and 18th centuries broadly disinterest me, unless we're talking on a philosophical basis.

The Wild West as a figment of our collective imagination fascinates me intensely, especially when one considers that there never really was a "cowboy era" and that, broadly speaking, it was derived from a handful of loosely connected events, later being compiled together as this weird sort of a landscape whose narrative possibilities proved to constitute a seriously brilliant invention of the human imagination, both terrifying and wondrous, earthly and alien. It's Homer's Odyssey in modernity.

I also must harbour a certain fondness for the bucolic life of 19th and 20th century Britain. It is rather sentimental, though that is not something one should be ashamed of, and principally it seems to hearken back to some fragmentary recollections of my youth, during which I would sometimes visit family friends and relatives in the countryside.

[burrunjor]

The Roman empire, special shout out to the early years thanks to I Claudius.

The medieval period, thanks to a certain game starring Paul Darrow.

World War 1 (I can't stress this enough, I mean to study LOL.)

Ditto the Wild West and the Victorian era.

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Mar 30, 2023 18:45:30 GMT burrunjor said:

The Roman empire, special shout out to the early years thanks to I Claudius.

In comparison to the Julio-Claudian dynasty (and Marcus Aurelius' Meditations as bro literature), the largest part of Roman history is almost completely neglected in conventional dialogue, excepting perhaps the fall of the Western empire and the later exploits of the Byzantium. Interesting considering that the Empire was the matrix of Europe, and the West at large, as we know it today. Maybe Christendom is just "boring" to most people nowadays.

[iank]

Wild West, Victorian and WWII are all fascinating.

[Spark Doll King]

Paleolithic Era/Stone Age