Which 100 year period has seen the most change?

[EmmaGrundyForPM]

I can't sleep and so am.pondering on all sorts of random crap, such as

If you took someone from any date in the past and could time travel them forward 100 years, what two dates would show the biggest change?

I'm thinking if you took someone from 1420 and plonked them in 1520, it wouldn't be as much of a shock to them than if you took someone from 1550 and put them in 1650, mostly because at that point we were a republic.

Something like 1815 to 1915 would be a massive shock because of the technological and social change. So things like railways, cars, planes, film/cinema, telephones etc were all invented in that period, plus the first world war had started, women had more freedom and were fighting for the right to vote.

Or would the change from 1920 to today be the biggest shock to someone? With the social changes eg gay marriage, legal abortion, women in parliament, the NHS plus technological innovation - the internet, smart phones, space travel.

My feeling is a person transplanted from 1818 to 1918 would experience the biggest shock because of the technological leap in that time but I'm prepared to be persuaded otherwise.

So, limiting it to the UK and to a date after, say, 1000AD, which 100 year gap would lead to the biggest culture shock for someone?

[CorianderLord]

I think 1910 to 2010 - imagine a Victorian suddenly being confronted with thousands of cars, computers, TV, phones, SPACE TRAVEL

[EmmaGrundyForPM]

Some really interesting answers here, thanks for responding. I hadn't really considered 1310 to 1410 but I can see the logic.

[Coldemort]

Cats are most definitely now king 😂
My comment in relation to language was more the switch in the middle ages for the aristocracy from French to English. I seem to remember Henry V was the first king who could speak English?

1910-2010 is mind blowing thinking of social change. From womens suffrage, to the end of the empire, to civil rights, gay rights.

[HeronLanyon]

It’s a thought I often have. So much if today’s tech is really just logical and foreseeable developments of previous advances. Think I’d go for a century from 1870-1969 just to get man in the noon snuck in there - if it weren’t for that the I’d probably go for something like 1825-1925 ish but it’s a difficult complex thought.

[HeronLanyon]

Man in the noon sounds socially risqué ! Man on the moon obvs