Really getting into History lately..

Specifically English History. I have been watching clips on you tube.

I first got into this due to the mini series "the white princess" but I actually find real history to be more compelling than fictionalized.

- What is amazing is thinking about all these humans who lived as far back as 980 AD.
- Also amazing is how poor health and how easily people died. I mean it wasn't until Victoria that monarchs lived until 80 and Elizabeth II is 93! Charles is in his 70s.
- Depressing is that there is always drama. I mean humans cannot go 10 years without wars. It makes me think there is something wrong with humans and that eventually we will be exterminated.
- As I tend to be a loner... it is gratifying that as far back as the 1500s Elizabeth I refused to marry and was a great ruler.
- It is amazing to realize that some key people in history really changed the world. Henry VII really was a key turning point. I have heard that Daenerys Targaryen was based on him.
- Queen Victoria gets a lot of press but honestly I find her a bit of a brat.

Anyone else into english history?

I think it's great you've developed this interest in English history. It's not a subject I know anything about in particular. I've always had a fascination with Celtic culture in the British Isles, Brittany in France, & Galicia in Spain. I don't really know that much about it. But it has always been of interest.

Recently, though, I happened on a Celts-related website where it said scholars who study the Celts nowadays believe there never actually were any Celts in the British Isles. I haven't made the effort to try to figure out how it is that Ireland's, Scotland's & Wales' cultures came to be deemed Celtic or what it, in fact, was if there never were any Celts in the British Isles. But it's interesting how our understanding of history can change over time.

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Thanks.
It is funny how I have heard things before and not really understood them.
Like "VIctoran" England... duh just means when Queen Victoria ruled. Or Regency England, when the king basically was too young to rule by himself therefor a "regent" did it.

Now I am dying to find out more about it and go over to england.

I love history. I'm sorry I don't know too much about English history specifically, but I share your enthusiasm. Queen Elizabeth I has always fascinated me.

Oh yes. But for me I am getting a bit of a crush on Henry the VII. Elizabeth I's grandfather.

He is the first person in history imho who was what I would call masterful. Seeming to see the bigger picture. He realized that England was fighting itself in the war of the roses and came in, knocked the other side out(via combat), took over, married the heir of the other side to form a union started the trend of lying to the people to promote stability. Using symbols and media to promote a dynasty.

He had children, seemingly loved his wife not only for her importance but also for herself and did everything he could to hold england together even if it meant sacrifices for him and his personal life.

He seemed the first person to treat being king as something more important than himself personally.

Elizabeth is a great one too. I particularly love that she refused to marry. Being a person who couldn't bring myself to do the same I appreciate that. She must have had B***s of steel not to marry at that time. Truly makes you wonder if some people are genetically better than others. Elizabeth unfortunately killed the Tutor line and that kind of spelled doom for most of the next century.

I'm a history buff too Emily. I have been studying U.S. history and read books, magazine articles and watch movies, youtube videos about
my favorite topics. My brain seems to work better since I started my history hobby.

This sounds extremely interesting! I have to admit I've always found history in school extremely boring. It was always about memorising names and dates and I never saw any point in it. But as I'm getting older I would really love to learn more about history. Mainly about the human side of it, how people actually lived (that means everything except wars). I'm mainly interested in European history, preferably Hungary and Austria - Hungary.