Did you know that I have a BA in History and Art History? The best thing about leaving university is that I can indulge my history geekness, and worry less about analysing any historiographical preconceptions in the stuff that I'm reading. It can be as Lite as Lite can be and I can enjoy it and not think! Huzzah for a lack of thought about history, romanticising it dreadfully and shamelessly reducing it to it's most basic elements.
Thus: behold my favourite historical periods in (roughly) chronological order, with three-ish words shamelessly reducing them to what I perceive to be their most basic elements
- Iron Age Britain - wode, torcs, mystery
- Early Imperial Rome - sluttiness, poisoning, politics
- Tudor England - dresses, Elizabeth I, six wives
- Restoration Britain - sluttiness, dresses, politics
- France from just before the Revolution to just after Napoleon - Directoire fashions (swoon), Josephine
- Paris from the Belle Epoque to the Interwar Period - courtesans, literary lesbians, Anais Nin
- Edwardian Britain to the Interwar Period - Bright Young Things
Have you noticed there is a definite European bias here? Conceptually odd given my geographical area, and academically odd given that I tried to specialise in post-Colonial art and the Colonial period in the Pacific while I was doing my undergraduate degree. In saying that - not studying a period endlessly does make it more interesting.
Darlings: your favourite historical periods? You know I want to know.
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