Favourite historical period/field/topic

[Barnabas]

My favourite historical periods are 2 :

- Late antiquity, germanic invasions, the patristic age, christological controversies etc which ends with the islamic conquest.

-The period from 1453 till the late 1600´s/early 1700´s, with conquest of Constantinople, discovery of America and explorations, reformation and counter reformation. Basically the rise and fall of Turks and Spaniards period.

[Kropotkin]

The results of the industrial revolution and beyond; social, economic, ethnic and political tensions; urbanisation, migration and economic development.

[Imran Siddiqui]

The Protestant Reformation
US history from the American Revolution to the Civil War
European Mideval period
World War 1

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
Dark Ages Britain.

You are truly strange

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by molly bloom
The English Civil War (or as it's now called) the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.

Political correctness GONE MAD

[Alexander's Horse]

okay laugh at my choice

The golden age of Athens

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Athens

Its associated with Pericles but the period I like also includes the Persian wars.

[Arrian]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse

You are truly strange

It's an interesting period. I did my undergrad thesis (rather poorly, I'll admit) on Dark Age Scotland.

One does suffer from a paucity of good source material, but if you work in archeology, you can fill in lotsa gaps.

-Arrian

[Alexander's Horse]

I was just teasing my old friend

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse


Political correctness GONE MAD

Hardly.

Given the conflicts and armies involved in the period, calling them all 'The English Civil War' when they included wars against the Scottish Covenanters fought in Scotland and against the Irish in Ireland, the longer description is actually more accurate.

The conflict which ended the first phase of the Stuart monarchy didn't begin in England- but in Scotland, with the introduction of a prayer book and the First Bishops' War.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I think he was just joking .

[Zkribbler]

1) American Revolution
2) Italian Renaissance

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
I think he was just joking .

Difficult to tell.


After all, he's old school .


C.V. Wedgwood gets round the issue by calling the individual volumes of her trilogy about the period 'The King's Peace', 'The King's War' and 'The Trial Of Charles I' , but of course that still leaves out a wee bit of history often corralled within the title 'English Civil War' .

[Arrian]

My father likes to call the American revolution the "Second English Civil War."

-Arrian

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Arrian
My father likes to call the American revolution the "Second English Civil War."

-Arrian

Except of course those darn furriners the French, Spanish and Dutch became involved too.

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by molly bloom


Hardly.

Given the conflicts and armies involved in the period, calling them all 'The English Civil War' when they included wars against the Scottish Covenanters fought in Scotland and against the Irish in Ireland, the longer description is actually more accurate.

The conflict which ended the first phase of the Stuart monarchy didn't begin in England- but in Scotland, with the introduction of a prayer book and the First Bishops' War.

Quite. Although I don't like traditional names changed.