MN History Club?

I am reading a history book atm. Well, it was published in the 60s (I got it at Shakespeare and Co ) and it's about "The French" as a peuple but it's mostly about French history. Tho am rather more stuck into my charity shop £1 virago omnibus atm, Weather in the Streets is the first book. I'm going to miss this town, charity shop heaven :(

Once upon a time, I loved history stuff too, but in the last few years that has fallen by the wayside.

I have so enjoyed reading through that thread and have been ordering and pulling out my old books to remind myself all about this period.

I'd like to add my vote for a History topic and think that slinging it in with Geneology is a fab idea.

I've only got a history O Level,but know a fair bit because of my voracious and eclectic reading habit.A history topic gets my vote.

Another vote for a history thread - yes, it would work well as history and genealogy, the two compliment each other.

• He thinks I am not quite a teen masochist.

My dad is very lovely and should be a celebrity but unfortunately he's not! He couldn't be some old famous professor, he hasn't a beard (although his eyebrows are quite feroce). He's talking about enrolling with me at my uni and doing a dissertation. I thinks he will embarrass me dreadfully. I wish he would!

Oh really? how fab! I wonder if there is an....Anais Nin somewhere. I wish my friend would do Colette. She is the exact reincarnation.

Oh, he is such a tosser that man. A A Gill, I mean. He just doesn't like people.

Ooh, anyone else nosy to know who quirrel's dad is?!

quirrel, Mary W must be some modern person pretending to be her - but she posts 'in character'.

I loved that bit with Mary Beard, too, very sweet.

?? I thought she was historical herself!! are there two?....

We like hyenas on mumsnet>>>> we need this with some ears on top

QuirrelQuarrel - I'm sure Mary Wollstonecraft would do it. She's on Twitter and she is absolutely brilliant.

There are quite a few other historical figures on Twitter but mostly they just post their diaries whereas Mary W engages people in conversation. The sweetest thing ever was when she was cheering Mary Beard up once saying 'Oh, have you been called a hyena in petticoats too?'

Oh yay! A history topic would be great! I just finished a book about Eva Peron which was fascinating. I don't know much about South American history (apart from the Horrible Histories Aztec song obv) so would love to find out if any wise mumsnetter knows more I now know that the Perons were well dodgy and she had fabulous clothes!

I can talk history to my dad, but he knows SO MUCH MORE than me so it usually turns out to be a lecture, and I love my dad, but I don't love his lectures. Whatever the subject, he will derail it to accommodate his special subjects (Judaism....the Middle East....Sumer ). He is bloody clever. You'd have to be, to be able to somehow link Gertrude Stein and her ilk to ancient religious texts thousands of years old.....

One of my audiobooks has Starkey narrating, his Elizabeth book, I think.

Whenever I have it on, DH will not stay in the room and can't understand how I can bear to listen to THAT voice.

Count me in too.

I have no-one in RL that I can talk about this stuff with. The Richard thread has been a godsend even though it has cost me a fortune on Amazon and will cost me even more

I would love a David Starkey webchat.

But possibly not for purely historical reasons.

The other would be brilliant though, quirrel.

David Starkey webchat? hmm....

What would be brill would be if a historian could come in and pretend to be a historical character and answer loads of Qs....or does that sound stupid? Or their ancestors or something talking about their family tree.

Anyone more up for circa European C19th+ rather than all glory bones? Although I get stuck in to any bit of French history esp. Paris. Also history of fine art :)

Perish the thought, nickel!

this is the thing - so many things that could be History end up being split into the other topics because there's no History topic.

yes, i love the idea of a history topic too!

i love the history of women and of the working class.

I put a long post in a thread about pink and girly based on the history of fashion and its role in keeping women in their place. i would love a topic so we can have a proper discussion on that, without it becoming Feminist.