Need-to-read alert
Jan. 31st, 2004 09:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
inulroThe 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.
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.
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Date: 2004-01-31 05:06 pm (UTC)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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Date: 2004-02-01 04:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-01 02:33 pm (UTC)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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Date: 2004-02-02 01:51 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2004-02-02 12:56 pm (UTC)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.