Living In The Past

Good one moobox

Perhaps we could all go back to cave person days and bring our sons and daughters up to respect each other, kill and cook the dinosaur together and let the women invent the wheel.

moobox

2019. Life in the past was so different

That's the best answer !

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2019. Life in the past was so different

FannyCornforth

Maggiemaybe how passionate and romantic!

It was, Fanny. Though it sadly put paid to any chance I had of living a life of ease and luxury.

I would find it hard to go back as a privileged woman in another era.
I already consider myself privileged in this era in that I have a roof over my head, a cupboard full of food and people who love me... The idea that I could enjoy being amongst the wealthy but have no control over what I did with my good fortune and finances (and maybe had to watch others struggling in terrible conditions right in front of me) I think would be awful.

I am fascinated by local history, and would love to go back in time in my home town and local city, to see how it developed. I know roughly what has happened over the years, but I would love to see how ordinary people lived, go into the houses that photos only ever show from the outside, hear the voices and smell the smells of life through the ages.

It would be even better if I could talk to the people without spooking them, and find out what they thought about the world they lived in.

I'm in a few local history groups on Facebook, and most of the photos are from Victorian and Edwardian times, as that was when cameras came into their own. There are a lot of photos of people who are shabbily dressed by modern standards, and a lot of the comments are always 'poor things', 'hard times in those days', and so on. I'm not suggesting that working people had it easy, but they were real people, who laughed, lived and loved just as we do, and I think that to reduce them to 'unfortunates' is disrespectful and, well, reductive. I would love to find out their own points of view, and whether they felt disadvantaged or that their lives were just the way people lived.

So, sign me up for the time machine tour! .

I would like to go back to the Highlands before the clearances just for a visit. In our glen there were over two thousand people who were all driven out to tiny pieces of barren land near the coast and their homes burnt down. Only the stone foundations remained. I used to play in one near our croft house as a child. Most of their animals died because they had nothing to feed them. I would like to see what the valley was like before and how people lived before the year of the burnings in 1829. A few people were able to return in the first years of the twentieth century, my grandparents among them, but only a few families in a small part of the strath. What would it have been like with lots of people and fields and homes? I used to think and wonder about this as a child.

I too would think about being an Edwardian - described as the last long golden afternoon of the British nation, before the first world war and everything going upside down. I would have needed to be rich of course; a miserable time if you weren't - perhaps a Downton Abbey lifestyle. That said I would probably have hated it and in fact I'm happy where I am in the great span of time.

I wouldn't want to be around prior to the development of anaesthesia and antiseptics. Maybe the Edwardian age, although I would have to be rich and a man. Not young enough to be conscripted in the upcoming First World War, though.

In reality, of course, I would be dead as I have had various illnesses that needed antibiotics and complex surgery. Wouldn't want to be without vaccines either. On the other hand, it would be nice to live in a world that isn't being destroyed by humanity.

i would like to be a fly on the wall back in time,,,so long as there were no fly swats back then....lol

I'm very interested in Victorian and Edwardian history. I'd like to time travel but I don't want to lose my central heating, dentist, doctors, health cover. Running water - cleanliness etc - soft lot aren't we!

If I had health and a certain amount of wealth, perhaps it would be interesting to live in Edwardian times.

Some things in the past will have been good but, on the whole, I like the mod-cons of today etc. etc.

Not everything in modern life is an improvement but I am glad that, in reality, I live now and not in the time of my Grandparents.

If I had money I would like to have lived in the Victorian era, but only if I were rich.

As long as I could pop in and out I’d like to go back and visit my Grandparents Grt Grandparents and go way back to Grandparents x? To see how they lived and where I came from.
Of course I’d need clothes from those times and old money and i would like to take some gifts and stuff to make their lives easier.
Then it would all get complicated and I might change time and disappear altogether !

Those golden days of our childhoods of course! And wouldn't we hate it once the realities sank in.

The Roaring 20's for me. Always loved the Prohibition era. Love the clothes, can just picture myself as a flapper girl! And the Speakeasies, drinking gin from a teacup and dancing the Charleston. The music was amazing too.

Grandmabeach Wed 23-Dec-20 10:30:58

I would miss technology and modern day conveniences but perhaps the 1950's where people respected other people, cared for their neighbours and children could safely play outside for hours without parents being concerned.

The early fifties Grandmabeach? When we all called each other by a formal address just like: "Are You Being Served." I remember seeing men on the beach in deck chairs, suited and booted. Well not quite booted, the shoes and socks were off and the trousers rolled up, but the neck tie stayed perfectly in place.

"I would have loved to live in Hampton Court Palace. Even seeing it on TV gives me goosebumps!"

Yes, and your next home would have been the Tower of London!

moggie57

medieval times .they knew how to enjoy christmas without modern technology...

Yes - flogging a few starving peasants!

I love the clothes of the Edwardian era and the 1940s but not the lifestyles, so I think I'll stay where I am.

I think I’ve missed my century- but I couldn’t go back in time as the racism in bygone times would really really upset me. ?

Assuming I am wealthy, then 20s and 30s in Paris and India.

At 64 in any other age I'd be on my last legs! As it is I feel fit and healkthy and ready for a few more years.

Having said that, I do like a Regency frock.