Favorite Eras

[The Lady Mercedes]

What era/eras in history (outside Renaissance of course) do you love most? I have quite a few:
1800's
Victorian
1920's, 40's & 60's

[Taffy Saltwater]

Late Victorian/Edwardian, obviously.  I last had a bout w/Victoriana in the late 80's/early '90's.  Wish I'd held onto some of that stuff.

Pre-revolutionary France just fascinates me.  Anything Marie Antoinette, any movie based on Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' Dangerous Liaisons, the movie Quills about the Marquis de Sade & am currently reading a biography of the Marquis.  Let's not forget the gorgeous Watteau gowns *sigh*.

Colonial New Mexico from 1598 when my ancestors were amongst those who came from Mexico & through Mexico from Spain.  My favorite earrings are reproductions of colonial Spanish earrings from the gift shop at a Santa Fe museum.

EDIT:  WelshWench, I meant to add Restoration England, and my beloved John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester.  Some of his works (some will be NSFW):

http://www.poemhunter.com/john-wilmot/

[Invy]

this is really sad.. but I feel like I should have been around 18 in the 70's
yea 1970's

[Welsh Wench]

1960's without a doubt.
Woodstock generation.

Peace.

Edited to include Restoration England under Charles II.
Old Rowley.
Look it up!

[Athena]

Ancient Greece
The Eighteenth Century
Regency England
The Roaring Twenties
The 1930's & 1940's

[Capt Spleen]

Fashionable Glam of the 1930's and 40's.
Glam 80's
And for perspective and natures cleansing, the plague years 1579 - Norwich
                                                                                 1665 - Newcastle on the Tyne
For the recent Swine (H1N1) Pig flu............................      1917-18 Spanish Flu

[RSLeask]

Favorites for me are:

Ancient Greece/Early (read: pre-Christianity) Roman
Ancient Japan and the dynasties of China
Medieval England (I actually prefer the Crusade eras over Victorian)
The Wild West of the mid- to late-1800s.
1960s (what I would have given to been involved when NASA was making leaps and bounds during that decade).

[Noble Dreg]

The Devonian, don't know why but it has always held a strong alure for me...Hey, you did ask.

[Lady Renee Buchanan]

Middle Ages around the 1200's, Robin Hood time.

60's, I was just a tad too young for the hippies and Woodstock generation (but that didn't stop me from thinking I was one of them!)

[renren]

The ancient Celts always fascinate me!

Ancient Egyptians, too.

Those are my top 2, other than ren-era, but I find all history very interesting!

[Lady Rebecca]

The English Restoration of the 1600s
English or French through all of the 1700s (up to about 1790)
1947 through the early 60s - basically everything that followed Dior's New Look

And yes, this is pretty much all based on the clothing!

[The Lady Mercedes]

And yes, this is pretty much all based on the clothing!

I agree-all my decisions are based on fashion lol except the 60's: I love most of everything about them-the music, the fashion & all the action going on...everything seemed much more vibrant, exciting & fresh. Not to mention all the colors seemed more vibrant too!

[Lady Rebecca]

And yes, this is pretty much all based on the clothing!

I agree-all my decisions are based on fashion lol except the 60's: I love most of everything about them-the music, the fashion & all the action going on...everything seemed much more vibrant, exciting & fresh. Not to mention all the colors seemed more vibrant too!

Likewise, my 50s one is based on more than fashion, too. I decided a few years ago that 1939 would have been the perfect year to be born - to young to remember WWII, but raised with a mentality that everything is precious, due to the war and the Depression. You get to be a teenager during the sock-hop doowop time of the 50s, and go into the 60s with the movement of women into work. You start to raise a family in the 70s, which means the huge drug influx of the early 70s is over by the time your kids know better, etc.

[SirRichardBear]

pre 1000AD Wales,  Early Colonial period America, 1820 - 1890 Texas, 1930's,