I'm a newbie, so I'm sure this must have been done, but what's your favorite period? Now? As a kid?
My interest was always ancient/classical, extending from "cavemen" but coming to a screeching halt at the onset of the medieval. I could stretch it up to the Norman Conquest, but that was it.
These days, I can read anything that's good 'g Flashman, , but the mists of time still draw me back.
My favorites as a kid were
The Great Axe Bretwalda: Alfred the Great vs. the Danes
The Year of the Horsetails: Huns vs Slavs in the Central Eurasian steppes
The Hills of Varna: okay, it's Renaissance, but concerns Classical Greece: young Englishman dispatched by Erasmus to find ancient Athenian comedy "The Gadfly", hidden in a monastery in the Balkans . The prequel deals with the actual writing of the play and politics in ancient Athens- both are very Whiggish, pro-democracy and liberalism, Varna stereotypes obscurantist Medieval monks.
My interest was always ancient/classical, extending from "cavemen" but coming to a screeching halt at the onset of the medieval. I could stretch it up to the Norman Conquest, but that was it.
These days, I can read anything that's good 'g Flashman, , but the mists of time still draw me back.
My favorites as a kid were
The Great Axe Bretwalda: Alfred the Great vs. the Danes
The Year of the Horsetails: Huns vs Slavs in the Central Eurasian steppes
The Hills of Varna: okay, it's Renaissance, but concerns Classical Greece: young Englishman dispatched by Erasmus to find ancient Athenian comedy "The Gadfly", hidden in a monastery in the Balkans . The prequel deals with the actual writing of the play and politics in ancient Athens- both are very Whiggish, pro-democracy and liberalism, Varna stereotypes obscurantist Medieval monks.