I am a History Buff---All Kinds-----U.S. Civil War, WW2, WW1, Korean War, The British Empire, India, China, Roman Era. Mexican History
Yes, Victoriana ...I've always had a passion about the British Victorian era... and also everything about WW2, including the role of those who were left at home to try and cope with living on rations and the constant threat and indeed results of bombings, death and homelessness !
My master's is in Medieval/Renaissance but I'm up for anything. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -- George Santayana-1905 As a species, we have long forgeteries.
Do remember at the tender age of three sitting on a Summer day in 1944 with my Grand father and watching the V1s coming over. He said don't worry but if you hear the engine cut out we have to go into the air raid shelter which was in are Garden. Also remember that I could only buy Sweets up to the 50s if I had as a child enough coupons.
I, too, enjoy all history. I am currently reading The Sleepwalkers, a book about the beginnings of WWI. I also enjoy almost anything by Churchill and most ancient history stuff. Colonial America fascinates as well.
I like history and historical novels. I am trying to trace my ancestry as far back as possible and find much interesting bits of history along the way. Charles Dickens BLEAK HOUSE was supposedly written about a case involving one of my ancestors.
My wife got me a magazine for Christmas, called Legends of the Wild West. Gen. George Custer, Buffalo Bill, Billy The Kid, Annie Oakley, Sitting Bull and others. So, mine would be The Old West.
I like to read about really ancient civilizations, both in the Old World and here in the New World. I find it both interesting and amazing what the early civilizations were able to do, especially when what we have been taught was that they were still living in caves, and the evidence shows that they were a much more advanced civilization. At least 6,000 years ago, there were people arriving in the Americas and mining for copper and other metals. It was not people who were living nearby, because all of that copper was hauled off somewhere else, probably in the ships that the mariners came over in. Wildlife of that early time period fascinates me as well, and especially when there are still reportings of some of these creatures who have supposedly been long extinct, like pterodactyls and even some dinosaurs, which have been sighted in remote parts of the world.