If you could live during any period, in any country...
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Re: If you could live during any period, in any country...The romantic in me would like to believe that(Original post by fairylights)
in a southern usa state just for the antebellum houses! early 1900's or 1930/40's please
...i wonder if what time period we feel drawn too has an relevance to maybe 'past lives' or something like that...haha
I'm the same - I love the houses in the Deep South. One of the Gone With The Wind houses for me
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Re: If you could live during any period, in any country...
I like David Starkey's answer to this question: That he wouldn't like to go back, because the benifit of being a historian is being able to understand what was happening with far more claity than the people who were actually living though it.
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Re: If you could live during any period, in any country...
Presuming I didn't know of later developments in hygiene, medicine and whatnot, I'd probably go for late 16th/early 17th century England. Impeccable manners, dashing gentlemen and Jane Austen.
Or maybe the Swingin' Sixties - post-war celebrations.
I might struggle with the lack of feminism though. -
Re: If you could live during any period, in any country...
Ancient Greece: Preferably in Sparta during the Persian Wars or even the Peloponnesian war, although I wouldn't mind living in the democracy of Athens, but, as a woman, I don't think I'd have much freedom in Athens, I'd probably have a lot more freedom in Sparta, or so it appears.
Ancient Rome: Would love to live in Rome during the Augustan period and maybe Caligula's reign as emperor too. Just so I could see if he was as crazy as he's shown to be-- I'd love to see him making his horse senator or declaring war on the sea.
I'm the same - I love the houses in the Deep South. One of the Gone With The Wind houses for me