I hadn't considered going into academia as such, but I've considered journalism as a career and lots of journalists write history books as well. Or maybe I could just do it anyway, fitting in the time around a normal job
I would like to write a book on the subject, I'd call it 'the Third Rome', which is a reference to the fact that the Muscovite states regarded themselves as the heirs of Byzantium after it fell (which was itself the second Rome) and thus was the centre of christendom. In a book I'd also explore the impact that religion has had on ordinary russians and how it shaped the national character.
If I did go into Academia though, I'd try to become a tutor at Oxford, and then choose all the awkward and interesting candidates at interviews and beforehand inform them all that I had got rejected just to see their faces
That sounds really interesting, and yes I love Terry Pratcett, he's such a human writer, you read him and feel that he really understands people, and he loves and finds them exasperating in equal measure.
The B was a massive annoyance, particularly as we got the paper back and my teacher (who is an examiner for that paper, so she knows) said that I shouldn't have got the mark I did
but my remark didn't change at all and she said it wasn't worth appealing it.
I hope so, York or Exeter would be good enough places to get onto a Masters, as long as I have a First (which I have decided I will get
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Oh go ahead! I love talking about my areas of interest, so many people just look at me like 'Wha...?' when I tell them about them!