which period of history are you obsessed by today?

[friendofdorothy]

prehistoric /neolithic times when us big girls might have been worshipped as a goddesses

I've seen these statues in Malta - fascinating place

 

[twentythreedom]

The history of the whaling industry is pretty interesting. Some good old whaling ship films on YouTube

 

[seventh bullet]

Soviet modernity and Stalin's own conceptions of socialism and communism. Marxism-Leninism in South, Southeast and East Asia.

 

[stuff_it]

that's not history, is it?

I didn't spot the line in the OP demanding that we experience time linearly.

 

[Kaka Tim]

the british wars/english revolution of the 17th century - huge social, religious and political upheaval that led to the foundation of the modern british state and the first expression of democratic radicalism, anti-monarchism, proto socialism and all sorts of weird and wonderful non-conformist religious sects. The radicalism was sqaushed in favour of a centralised mercantile liberalism - but arguably laid the groundwork for the enlightenment, the american and french revolutions and the emancipatory struggles of the 19th centuary. The impact on ireland - which is still a source of aggro today - is a massive subject in itself.

 

[discokermit]

Eighteenth century, specifically the Navy

i like reading about the spithead and fleet mutinies.

 

[discokermit]

It's about whales.

have you read moby dick? i went to gay head, on cape cod, that gets mentioned in it. i went to get a boat to nantucket as well but it was the last one that day and i couldn't afford to stay overnight there.

 

[Orang Utan]

have you read moby dick? i went to gay head, on cape cod, that gets mentioned in it. i went to get a boat to nantucket as well but it was the last one that day and i couldn't afford to stay overnight there.

no, but I intend to - the Hoare book has made me enthusiastic enough to tackle it. Hadn't realised Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard were islands!

 

[twentythreedom]

i like reading about the spithead and fleet mutinies.

It is awesome history and story telling

 

[Sirena]

prehistoric /neolithic times when us big girls might have been worshipped as a goddesses

I've seen these statues in Malta - fascinating place

Steatopygous was very fashionable then and it's back in fashion ....

 

[petee]

russia 1917. dammit, i'm going to figure it all out at last.

I will never eat another whale

i had whale in iceland, it was tasty.

The Sogdian traders along the silk road around Samarkand 5-8th century.

I was reading about the silk road and fell down a wiki-hole.

have you seen this?
MONGOLS CHINA AND THE SILK ROAD

 

[Puddy_Tat]

not much today, although have spent a bit of time recently on some of the London coach stations before Victoria opened in 1932

 

[8ball]

The Post-Trump wasteland...

 

[mrs quoad]

I invariably have several Vietnamese campaign pages open. Currently the Cambodian-Vietnamese war and Dien Bien Phu.

Also currently have a series of pages open about the development of steam engines (thanks to the Rev Awdry and an obsessive toddler), one about Louis Farrakhan (sp?), and Anthony Faramus too.

 

[discokermit]

The Sogdian traders along the silk road around Samarkand 5-8th century.

I was reading about the silk road and fell down a wiki-hole.

i've touched on the silk road when looking through the history of chess. i think it was transformed from chinese chess by traders.

 

[DotCommunist]

i've touched on the silk road when looking through the history of chess. i think it was transformed from chinese chess by traders.

the Volga route had vikings with steel swords. Which they couldn't make themselves, work but not make. That reminds me I'd like someone to recommend a book on the hanseatic league cos they seem very shady indeed and you never see any docus on them do you.

 

[Red Sky]

the Volga route had vikings with steel swords. Which they couldn't make themselves, work but not make. That reminds me I'd like someone to recommend a book on the hanseatic league cos they seem very shady indeed and you never see any docus on them do you.

Jonathan Meades "Magnetic North" is worth checking out for stuff about the Hanseatic League.

 

[Pickman's model]

Looking at photography in the days of the raj

 

[stockwelljonny]

Frances Drake, and the state sanctioned pirates of the 16th century.

 

[Pickman's model]

i've touched on the silk road when looking through the history of chess. i think it was transformed from chinese chess by traders.

Don't see you posting as often as I'd like

 

[discokermit]

Don't see you posting as often as I'd like

nice of you to say. i've been depressed for a while. seem to be coming out of it a bit now though.

 

[Pickman's model]

nice of you to say. i've been depressed for a while. seem to be coming out of it a bit now though.

Sorry to hear you've been depressed and glad you're feeling a bit better

 

[not-bono-ever]

Jonathan Meades "Magnetic North" is worth checking out for stuff about the Hanseatic League.

thats tonights/ tomorrows viewing sorted! I do love a bit of meades me

 

[discokermit]

rookeries, in particular st giles and the liberty of the mint, Rookery (slum) - Wikipedia

 

[DotCommunist]

rookeries, in particular st giles and the liberty of the mint, Rookery (slum) - Wikipedia

where Sharpe grew up, one of those slums. Unpicking huge old bits of sea-aged rope knots, till his hands were raw. Of course he later won the peninsular wars so it came out good in the end

 

[rubbershoes]

The golden age of Polar exploration.

Anyone for penguin stew?

 

[discokermit]

The golden age of Polar exploration.

Anyone for penguin stew?

with the shackleton-rowett expedition the featured article on wiki it would almost be rude not to.

 

[agricola]

Aztec civilisation at the time Cortes arrived. How it must have felt on both sides - the moral triangulations needed to justify enslavement and genocide for the benefit of 'saving souls' and the sense of apocalypse the natives must have felt.

That invasion should really be taught more widely - there are so many angles to it (the approaches of the various Spanish discovery expeditions, what Cortes did, how the Mexican state responded to finding out that they did not in fact control most of the world, how the natives that assisted the Spanish (especially the Tlaxcala) acted and why, the personalities of the conquistadors and the Mexica themselves, how the Mexica resisted, the financial effects of the conquest and the debate afterwards over whether the people in the newly conquered territories were human or not) that the amount of learning it can provide is probably unequaled by any other event in history.

 

[Mordi]

That invasion should really be taught more widely - there are so many angles to it (the approaches of the various Spanish discovery expeditions, what Cortes did, how the Mexican state responded to finding out that they did not in fact control most of the world, how the natives that assisted the Spanish (especially the Tlaxcala) acted and why, the personalities of the conquistadors and the Mexica themselves, how the Mexica resisted, the financial effects of the conquest and the debate afterwards over whether the people in the newly conquered territories were human or not) that the amount of learning it can provide is probably unequaled by any other event in history.

Anywhere you'd suggest starting?

 

[agricola]

Anywhere you'd suggest starting?

Hugh Thomas' "The Conquest of Mexico" was where I started, a fantastic book that deserves all the praise it got on release and subsequently.