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They had a better series a few years ago. And this one was actually archaelogy and history. Imagine that!
Absolutely! And I'll keep that book in mind. I just purchased this book. N.A.M. Rodgers is a good naval historian.I think the 'Mary Rose' is at that museum as well. I don't know if the public has access though.
I'm more a naval history person, scout. 🙂With all this reading about British sailing and Navy, I have an urge to watch Master and commander. Never saw it before.
I mean academic by using citation…not like a paper, but at least cite things. I see on a lot of history related blogs no citations at all.
Been talking to some Brits about driving distances. As long as they're accurate, I could plan it out and see a lot in a short period of time. Being by myself will be a huge plus I think.My problem is finding out about all this other stuff. I was checking out inns and hotels outside of London. On the hotel websites I clicked "nearby attractions". I shouldn't have done that. Plus I need to think about these other museums I want to see. Do I want to drive around England and take in as much as possible or spend time in museums? That's a hard decision to make. British Museum is a definite, but the Royal Naval Museum also looks quite interesting.There are some things I have to see and go to like my ancestral home of Somerset. I found out Stonehenge is on the same road along the way, so that's an added bonus. I was going to spend 2 days in the British Museum, but may extend it to 3. However, if time is going to be an issue, I could probably do it in a day if I go quickly. I'm not one to stand and contemplate something for 45 minutes anyway. "I came, I saw, I took a picture, I left" is my museum mantra...but sometimes I do tend to get in 'the zone' and lose all aspect of time. (like I imagine will happen in the ancient history section). Did want to see a rugby match, but I think I'll skip that and just go to the Rugby Museum instead. Also want to see Hadrian's Wall, but that may be too much as it's a 6-7 hr drive from London.
I'm saving up for a trip to England hopefully for a week or 10 days next year. Wish I could afford to spend a year there though. The more I dig into it, the more I want to see. I'm going to really need to focus when I go.
You use citations and maps & diagrams. I like that. I'll probably try to do the same on mine (and without plagiarizing you). All I want is to be coherent and accurate. This British history is crazy and complicated though (I never read 3 books at the same time until now), so at least I hope I can be coherent!
Theoretically, that's probabaly correct, and they are also snobby as well as stubborn. (But I'll give them this, this year they do have a better national rugby team than England) It is because the first Union flag was created after Wales became a principality of the Kingdom of England.
The Union Jack? Around 1606 (at least some variation of it).
No. St George's Cross is an England only flag.I would also like to stress the word UNION in the name Union Jack (sorry, couldn't resist 😀 )Now here's some trivia to throw you all off. Why no representation of the Wales flag (dragon) in all this?
It's funny (and stupid) for them to make that move to “trendy” seeing that much of the complaint about the History Channel is that they don't show history.
scout's is very academic. I'll use it as inspiration to write more academically as well 🙂But mine will probably be more
my opinions on a disparate collection of issues - from politics to sports to history...
Just briefly. So I'm up to about the latter half of the 17th century in my reading. Great Britain was really starting to get legs and coming into power as far as naval and economic strength and were beginning to find success in colonization. They were also wrestling with the idea of “Empire” which to me is incredibly interesting. There was some sentiment of anti-imperialism going on though (I did not know that Paradise Lost was an anti-imperialism epic). I stopped and found this journal entry called “The Rise of Anti-Imperialism in England” available at j-stor. I am slightly surprised to find that Adam Smith was quite against the idea of an English empire.
