What is your favourite period in British history ?

[bossel]

In fact, it has been like think since early Medieval times.

Actually, even longer. IIRC, all early Germanic tribes were rather "egalitarian." An institution like the ting also existed in other Germanic tribes.

The Norse culture was one of the most democratic the world has ever known, easily better than the Athenian democracy, which had institutional slavery.

Your view seems a bit too positive, the Vikings also had slaves (usually some kind of POW) & unfree servants (thralls, born as such)

the founders and rulers of two of the most powerful country the world as ever known : England (via Normandy and the Danelaw) and Russia (via the Principality of Kiev).

Well, well, the term "founders" also can be disputed. England was unified for the 1st time ("founded") by the West-Saxon conquest of the Danelaw.

For Russia, I don't know, but the Normanist Theory is also disputed, albeit mainly by Russian (pro-Slav) historians. Whether the Vikings founded Russia, or not, their cultural influence is minimal, though.

[rain909]

the romanitico-barbaric is a personal fav. of mine

[Miss_apollo7]

They were also the first European to reach the Americas (Vinland in New Found Land in 1000 CE, well before Columbus) and to settle Greenland, Iceland, the Shetlands and Faroe Islands.

.....My favourite outburst!!! "Vikings saw Americas before Columbus!!" Hehe...

[Miss Marple's nephew]

.....My favourite outburst!!! "Vikings saw Americas before Columbus!!"

Long, long, long before Columbus!!!


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Romantico-barbaric age.

[Aristander]

I'm with Bossel, I have always been interested and intrigued by the Brittanic Roman Period and the Anglo-Saxon Invasion. I have always wondered why the British held on to their language all through the Roman Period when almost all other Roman colonies adopted or integrated Latin into their language.
It wasn't until the Germanic and Danish tribes displaced many of the Celtic British into Scotland, Cornwall and Wales that the English language was born.

[Colbert]

i can't vote, but if i had could, my choice would have been (woufff! the conjugation, my god!) the henri VIII times


cause since two weeks I watch passionatly a tv-serial call "the tudors" and it's amazing !


long live to queen mary and f.. cromwell

[Colbert]

mm, my picture don't appears

[Eireannach]

and f.. cromwell

I agree with that sentiment 100%

[Yorkie]

I agree with that sentiment 100%

Er...do I take it then that you dissent from the view that Cromwell 'reduced Ireland to civility'? Alright..I'll get my coat...

[Aristander]

Er...do I take it then that you dissent from the view that Cromwell 'reduced Ireland to civility'? Alright..I'll get my coat...

I don't think nearly enough indignities were done to Cromwell's moldering corpse when they dug him up after the Restoration!

[Yorkie]

I don't think nearly enough indignities were done to Cromwell's moldering corpse when they dug him up after the Restoration!

Some feel the same way about Napoleon. I feel that way about Charles Aznavour, who committed atrocities with his voice in the name of France.

[Rastko Pocesta]

The Swinging 60s.

[Regulus]

Even though I tend to be an apologist of sorts for those who take rough action on behalf of their country, I have to side with those who feel that Cromwell has been treated surprisingly well by history. Not to balk at his trial and execution of the King - I would have probably done the same thing if I were in his place. My problem would be with his treatment of the people in areas in which his army operated.

My favourite (purposely spelled) period of England is that of Robert Walpole. His period saw the development of the office of Prime Minister. (Although the charge of making himself "sole and prime minister" was leveled at him by his enemies) Even though he was forced out, his work lived on. It was during his time that England truly became stable as well and powerful and I think that it was the first time that "Rule Britannia" was spoken.

[Reinaert]

I guess the only positive moment in the history of England were The Beatles.
Especially John Lennon.

Songs like...
Working Class Hero.
Give Peace a Chance.
Imagine.
The luck of the Irish.

[Grizzly]

I feel that way about Charles Aznavour, who committed atrocities with his voice in the name of France.

He is being tried for high treason.

[Rastko Pocesta]

I guess the only positive moment in the history of England were The Beatles.
Especially John Lennon.

Songs like...
Working Class Hero.
Give Peace a Chance.
Imagine.
The luck of the Irish.

I couldn't agree more with the choice of songs.

[SiriusSocketPuppet_2]

My favorite period of British history is undoubtly the Victorian Era.

I think that many of the British literature and culture from that time is very much alive even today... and I think that reflects in the attention and influence in recent cinema (Time Machine, Dracula, War of the Worlds, Sherlock Holmes, The Invisible Man, The Jungle Book,... etc.)

There is something extraordinay about that time, so much wealth of imagination... not just the hard facts of power in the Reality...

Definitely a period and place that I would like to study much more profoundly.

[edao]

To quote a great philosopher,

"Right here, right now!"
Fatboy Slim

[Antigone]

I like the history of all of Britain from the end of the last Iceage and up until the Tudor era. Haven't a lot of interest in the Empire that came after that time.

[Triskel]

Romantico-barbaric age