Need-to-read alert

[inulro]

The to-read list is as long as ever; the unread books in my house are piled high, so I really shouldn't do stupid things like read guardian book reviews.

Because I'm the sort of nerd who thinks the real history is more interesting than the mythos, this is more than a little tempting. I suspect I'll have to have a leaf through a copy first.

Comments

[quercus.livejournal.com]

What happened in the 18th century ? I just have a huge gap there. I know almost no history anyway, but my psychochronology seems to go like this:

1600 Shakespeare & Liz 1

A whole damned lot changed in almost no time at all.

1666 Pepys / plague / fire / end of that roundhead malarkey

A Gap.

1759 Something happened in India. Not much going on in Blighty

1776 Thomas Payne calls for the abolition of monarchy, but the Yanks get it wrong and see it as anti-Englishism. Later on we re-colonise Canada, saving them from Washington and Lincoln, but giving them the Queen Mum.

1789 France invents politics and science.

Another Gap.

Victoria. She starts off in the late-medieval big-frock period and dies in the telegraph era (which was like, yesterday).

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[inulro.livejournal.com]

In Britain, not a lot happens politically in the 18th century - they're mostly too busy going out and colonising the world, and having the Enlightenment at home.

Keeping in mind that my expertise is concentrated at the tail end of the 18th century (1780-).

I think the good protests and riots started in the early 19th c.

[gothwin.livejournal.com]

Well like you I have a unread book mountain piling up. Now you posted that link it's going to be even higher...

[bar-bar-ella.livejournal.com]

I suspect I'll have to have a leaf through a copy first.

You must have better self-control than me. If I saw that in a shop, it'd be bought in no time at all.

"You're a better man than I am, Gungadin." ;)

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[inulro.livejournal.com]

I've been burned a couple times by books that sounded great but were duds when they came through my letter box. If I'd been able to have a look at a real copy before buying, I'd probably have spotted that.