Most Interesting Era In History?

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johnnydawg68 said:
It was the only subject in school I could be arsed enough about to actually get an "A". Maybe English too, but the rest were just filler.
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I got an A too, could probably have gone on to do a degree in it but I joined the air force and that was the end of my education.
 
History is a fantastic subject, one that as you get older you want to learn more about.

I have the full empire series recorded, waiting till I have some time off to watch them straight through.
 
TX Bill said:
Talk much about Walesa? Or was it before that time?
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Yup the Gdansk Shipyard strike was August 1980. My dissertation was focused on why the Russians didn't invade Poland so I wrote more about the political side of things, but certainly read up a lot on Walesa during my research. Found it really interesting. Previous incidents suggested it was inevitable that they would invade and Brezhnev had drawn up pretty detailed plans but in the end they didn't go through with it. I argued that Jimmy Carter handled the situation reasonably well and ensured that for the first time there was a coordinated strategy from the West to let the Soviets know there would be serious consequences if they invaded. It came during a period of 'detente' and the Ruskies weren't keen to bring an end to that. Also I argued that a speech from Stanislaw Kania at a Warsaw Pact meeting had a big influence on Brezhnev's decision. We had access to loads of primary sources and I managed to dig out the transcript from that meeting which was quite cool!

Yes I am a massive geek :)
 
I love history, and I think this last 10 years ago will go down in history as one of the biggest failures of politicians not to have learnt from it; ie, the euro. Totally predictable the shiot their meddling has resulted in.
 

Welton Toffee said:
Yup the Gdansk Shipyard strike was August 1980. My dissertation was focused on why the Russians didn't invade Poland so I wrote more about the political side of things, but certainly read up a lot on Walesa during my research. Found it really interesting. Previous incidents suggested it was inevitable that they would invade and Brezhnev had drawn up pretty detailed plans but in the end they didn't go through with it. I argued that Jimmy Carter handled the situation reasonably well and ensured that for the first time there was a coordinated strategy from the West to let the Soviets know there would be serious consequences if they invaded. It came during a period of 'detente' and the Ruskies weren't keen to bring an end to that. Also I argued that a speech from Stanislaw Kania at a Warsaw Pact meeting had a big influence on Brezhnev's decision. We had access to loads of primary sources and I managed to dig out the transcript from that meeting which was quite cool!

Yes I am a massive geek :)
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No you're not mate. This is why GOT is the aceist footie site in the world.
 
Pretty much the last hundred years of British history. Both world wars and especially British history since 1945 and the shift in economic orthodoxies from Keynesianism to monetarism and supply-side policies over the last 60 years. But number one has to be the economic crisis of 2008 to present. The story behind it, to me, is fascinating.
 
Not a massive fan of modern history.

I like to learn about times when humans had a completely different view of the world.
 

Azzurri said:
Not a massive fan of modern history.

I like to learn about times when humans had a completely different view of the world.
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Just finished a book on the Spanish Conquistadors. Fkn amazing how dissimilar the cultures of the Aztecs, Incans, and Native Americans were to the Spanish. The Incan's were always concerned about "how obsessed" the Spanish were with sex.
 
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