Hi,
does anyone else love history?
I am v keen on history. Ancient Egypt -particularly 18th dynasty, Tudor, development of early christianity, Rennes-le-Chateau, Templars, etc., second world war, medieval churches of Gloucestershire, Azincourt & Henry V. I could go on, but I'll leave it there...
Oh, I also live in the town that is the site of the last duel in which a man was killed in England.
Hi Raven,
I LOVE HISTORY!
I think my favourite period would have to be Ancient Egypt, Tudors, Vikings and Normans.
In fact, the only reason why became so obsessed with this subject is through Horrible Histories. Have you heard of it? Its a a set of books written by Terry Deary (and a childrens TV programme) with (as the book says) 'with the horrible bits left in!'. Its very funny and i have a few audiobooks of them on my Ipod.
The books are usally sold in all good bookshops (try Waterstones) or Amazon.co.uk and i got the audiobooks from Itunes (but i think you can get them from Spotify).
Belle x
I now remember what it was about although I had to examine the post. He should have refused the challenge to the Duel and he probably would have been spat at but better than being killed. This is all history. We need now to talk about why Autistic people live less long than the genearl population. When I have time I will start a discussion about that. It should go in a different discussion the preasent problems of Autistic people.
The tradition was crazy but he either should not have provoked his so called friend or he should have refused the challenge to a duel. When a Chemist was challenged to a duel. He suggested that we should have one tablet poisonous and the other one not poisonous. The way I understand the story the one who was good at fighting refused the challenge. Many French Noble men got killed every year in duels in eighteenth century France. It is a combination of factors which caused his death.
I did have a quick look at the story on the web but never heard of him before tonight.
Apparently they used to have duels in Russia as well as in France.
THANKS AGAIN for sharing the story.
David
When did he get shot in a duel?
I do not think it had anything to do with Asperger Syndrome.
In Pre Revolutionary France if a Noble man had a quarrel with another Nobelman he would challenge him to a duel. If he killed him it would not count as murder.
In some societies it was a tradition to challenge people to duels and often it would end with the weeker one being killed. If you refused the challege you would be spat on in the streets. That has nothing to do with Asperger Syndrome because crazy traditions survive amongst so called NTs.
I do not know if any societies still have duels.
David.
Try paleopatologia.it. They have some articles in English as well as Italian. I love palaeopathology! Was pretty envious of a friend (my old boss) who got to play with Richard III.
Oh god do I love history!
My favourite types are modern, political and women based history.
It just fascinates me and I love learning more and more about the past.
I am so excited as I am going to uni and starting my degree in history in a couple of months!
I've been passionate about history from being very small. When I was 5 I used to tell people I wanted to be an archaeologist, but ended up as a professional historian because I don't like being knee-deep in mud. I tend to get deeply attached to historical characters in a way I don't with living people: I think, because I know how their stories end, and because people on paper are easier for me to get inside their heads with. As a schoolgirl and student, others thought it odd that my pin-ups ranged from mediæval princes to 19C consumptive artists and duelling poets.
I don't remember seeing the TV series of the Diary of Anne Frank, but I read the diary itself many years ago. I'm writing this in a hotel room in BudaPest, Hungary, after arriving from Prague in the Czech Republic yesterday.
In Prague I was able to visit the Cathedral of St Cyril and St Methodosius and the crypt beneath it in which the Czech parachute team sent to assassinate Rheinhard Heydrich fought to their last bullet. It is a deeply poignant place. In Prague our guide spoke of a prewar population of some 600,000 Jews, reduced now to around 6,000.
Here in BudaPest the Hungarians fell victim to two dictators in succession. Compelled, it seems, to fight for Nazi Germany, they were 'liberated' by Soviet Russia in 1945, against whom they fought an abortive revolution ten years later, finally emerging from the 'communist yoke' in the late 90s. Here many buildings still wear the bullet hole and shrapnel scars.
And in a day or three I will be in Vienna, always locked in my mind as the place where Adolf Hitler seems to have formulated most of his anti-semitic theories.
There is a very great deal that is interesting about the First World War, however, and it is worth looking at closely. The First World War planted the seeds of the second, and that is well worth remembering.
The men who fought - on all sides - are worth remembering too, as are the women who loved and supported them. Through history I remember them, with some pride and a very great deal of sadness.
Anne Frank the tv seires 2009 'the diary of anne frank' i really really liked it a lot.
iam so intrested on how hitler rose to power in 1940s and the lives of germany citizens expesilly anne frank. ive read the book its amazing.
in primary school i was very exited when we done a topic on it.
i watch films a lot (iam a movie buff) i watched;
the pianist
shinlers list
saving privet ryan
ingrorious b-******
when i was in my other high school (the bad for me school not even heard of asbergers then time)
my history teacher said whe are going to do WW1 and i was really annoyed at the fact we where doing a war i didnt have much knowlage on.
Do love reading history myself, always feels a bit of a shame I didn't pursue it after A-levels.
If I'm interested in a particular subject right now I guess it'd be best describe as the 'age of revolutions' - the Civil War right through the French, American, Napoleonic period and the American Civil War.
Fascinating period, though obviously pretty wide-ranging, a real joy to read about.
Recently I have had to expand my time period. My last three dissertations, I have extended my time period to the mid 16th century, to look at the differences pre and post Reformation in Scotland. I find the mid fourteenth century and the Black Death simply fascinating though :) Do you have an interest in military history? Any particular time period?
I have read Foucault's stuff, I didn't find his argument about hospitals particularly convincing though! Have you ever read anything by Roy Porter? He's done some reserach on the history of madness. Also fairly recently, they have uncovered the graveyard for St Mary's Bedlam in London from the 13th century. I can't wait to see what the paleo-pathological findings are.
I do enjoy social and political history as well.
I love History, so much so that I took a Degree in the subject back in 2005. I, too, love medical History, particularly the History of madness. I am currently reading Foucault's Madness and Civilization, a very complex and difficult read but well worth it. The book looks at Humour theory (black bile, yellow bile etc), cures (such as immersion, hot drinks etc) and how madness was segregated in massive Asylums during the Victorian period.
I am also interested in culinary, social and political History.
That sounds a delightfully gruesome package. 1066 to 1485, according to a quick web check? Prime time for archery, siege engines and possibly the earliest cannon? Just built a working model of a trebuchet catapult, myself. I know nothing of the medical practices of the time, but it does sound interesting.
Very best wishes to you
That's not an issue :) I was curious if anyone else on the site was enthusiastic about history. I'm a medievalist personally; my subject area is medieval disease and medical practice.
I love history with a passion - especially the 18th and 19th centuries (roughly from William and Mary through to Victoria)
(I don't have an ASD, if that matters - I'm just someone who supports youngsters with ASDs in school and has a lot of friends )