What historical event fascinates you the most?
History in general fascinates me. In many ways it is the imperfection and biased recollection of facts and events that makes history all the more intriguing. Academia strives hard to nail down historical facts. While human memory throughout history differs in subtle and monumental ways. Humans involved or indeed uninvolved in historic events have an opinion on how or why something happened depending on their own prejudices or expectations.
Someone writes or records in some way their viewpoint on an occurrence and that becomes a fact which others might question. And then more research is done and another book/paper/ theory is let loose.
For this reason alone my choice of fascinating historical event is the Covid Pandemic. Because I experienced it first hand and that only 5 years down the line there is swirling abiguity about some of the facts and outcomes of the virus that stopped the world.
My earlier daily blog, Pandemic Ponderings, records the event as it impacted my small space in history. Do I remember things the way they actually were. Would reading them again surprise me?
200 years down the line on 2225 how will the Covid Pandemic have altered the world?
On reflection my family and friends were relatively lucky and yet we experienced huge grief and sadness. The harm of that period lives on within each of us.
Almost every human in the world felt something similar and many were so much more badly damaged than us. How will all that unhappiness in a whole population have shifted the shape of our world for ever?
Out of bad experiences good things rise, different paths are taken. Enforced choices become the lived experience.
I am capable of swimming every day in the sea, with friends I would never have met had it not been for the Pandemic. I moved house to be next to the sea so swimming was easier and then a whole other, quite bonkers world opened up.
For a whole worldful of people to have a single event that changed them is unprecedented.
It makes you think, doesn’t it.
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yes, that had a huge impact on the world and changed so much! weirdly, I feel like, as an American, living in the states, I am living through an event, a series of events, which are not yet history, but ithat are live, and will have changed my country forever. the history of what we are currently experiencing will never be forgotten and will leave damage that will take a very long time to come back from. it will impact my children and grandchildren and so on, as well as our relationship with the entire world. it will be studied and analyzed and written about and films will be made about it. people are dying because of what is happening and we’re living it in real time. very hard to wrap my head around and I’ve become an activist, something I never expected to be a large part of my retirement years.
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Oh Beth. We felt the same in the Conservative Years with the pinnacle of shame being Boris Johnson . A man for whom the truth was always a stranger and his only ambition to drain funds into his already wealthy friends pockets and to somehow persuade women to pleasure him. However grim he was he was certainly a poor imitation of Trump.
My son was in South Korea and Seoul was just shut down for the Trump Circus this week. It is not laughable but a cottage on our route in and out of Cornwall flies a huge Trump flag almost constantly. Xxxx
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that is so crazy and glad you can identify –
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