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If you could go back in time….

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Whethertomorrow Sun 18-Feb-24 15:19:19

If you could go back in time and to any place, without being seen or influencing matters, what would you like to witness?

As a crafter I’d like to go back to the very first time someone made 2 knitting needles and made a ball of wool and started knitting. Did someone just pick up twigs and yarn and start fiddling around? How did they develop casting on and invent two stitches? Or did aliens land and pass on their knowledge?

What would you like to witness? Could be happy, sad, weird or wonderful?

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Doodledog Mon 04-Mar-24 18:16:30

I don't expect that she saw herself as weak or feeble - that was a PR exercise to get the men onside, and shows she was shrewd.

I think that knowing what happened to her mother, and that if she married her husband would take precedence over her, she was in a difficult position, and I don't blame her for wanting to stay at the top, where fewer people could harm her. Contraception was primitive in those days - rudimentary condoms that would kill all feeling, and lemons used as caps - but I think she'll have found ways of having a sex life. There is no evidence that I know of that suggests she was unhappy with being a woman. Unhappy at the way women were treated, maybe/probably; but that's not the same thing at all.

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