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
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/
this is really sad.. but I feel like I should have been around 18 in the 70's
yea 1970's
1960's without a doubt.
Woodstock generation.
Peace.
Edited to include Restoration England under Charles II.
Old Rowley.
Look it up!
Ancient Greece
The Eighteenth Century
Regency England
The Roaring Twenties
The 1930's & 1940's
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
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).
The Devonian, don't know why but it has always held a strong alure for me...Hey, you did ask.
(http://www.arcadiastreet.com/cgvistas/earth/images/asteroxylon_swamp_600.jpg)
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!)
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!
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!
Quote from: Lady Rebecca on November 02, 2009, 11:37:34 PM
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!
Quote from: The Honorable Lady Benton on November 03, 2009, 03:20:54 AM
Quote from: Lady Rebecca on November 02, 2009, 11:37:34 PM
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.
pre 1000AD Wales, Early Colonial period America, 1820 - 1890 Texas, 1930's,