If you could travel back to any time period…

[AmazingBouncingFerret]

Any era or civilisation, any social class, what would it be?

I’m torn between being aristocratic in Regency England because everything was obviously just like a Jane Austen novel or maybe the roaring twenties, even though I’m not the biggest fan of jazz I wouldn’t have minded the rising hemlines and risqué nightclubs.

I asked my husband and he genuinely started muttering something about Romans, which is hilarious considering he’s an almost 50 year old with no social media so he wouldn’t have seen or heard of the Roman Empire thing.

To just go and see as a bystander id love to go back to Victorian britain, its a time that im really interested in, but definitely not to live during and experience first hand.

I would probably just like to go back to my great grandparents or my great great grandparents age as that would seem more relatable and relevant to me.

Going back to Roman times, or whatever, would seem unbelievable.

To be a bystander, Victoria aristocracy or roaring 20's.

To actually live- 1970's. I read an article which said that the 70's was the best era to live in. Antibiotics were available, pre-HIV and other diseases, less chemicals in foods, less obesity etc.

Definitely regency era for me. If I was rich, I'd have a huge house, stunning dresses, an active social life. If I was poor I'd work in a stunning house with lots of other people. It seemed like a very social era.

If I could travel back to see my parents and sibling, they would be fantastic

And then 1.2 billion years to see if more advance people than us lived around that time

I’d choose the 60s.

Believe me, it wasn't that great.

I think about this a lot.

London 1851, for the Great Exhibition with the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park.

Or London before the old London bridge was demolished, so I could walk over it and look at all the buildings on it.

Preferably after the invention of anaesthetic.

Renaissance Italy - of course I'd be very wealthy etc but to see the emergence of people like Da Vinci or Donatella etc would be amazing.

I'd actually also be fascinated to see real Ancient Rome; they were so advanced for the time - underfloor heating, indoor plumbing etc.

The court of Henry 8th. Im fascinated by the Tudors.

The summer of love (60s)
Amd Victorian england

Tudor London please.

I'd like to see Herculaneum in its hey day. I'd also like to be an observer of the neolithic era, to see humans developing into the farmers and tool makers we are today and to see what the landscape of our island looked like.

Western Front, front line trench 1916.

What's the Roman empire thing OP? What does it have to do with social media?

I'd like a quick trip, with a full flu vaccine on board, to the great flu epidemic. I want to know if people reacted as we did to Covid.

To live? Any time away from the current political climate! Maybe the 60s to buy a nice house in a nice bit of London for buttons!

@TragicMuse - OP is referring to this:

How often does your OH think about the Roman Empire? www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/4894879-how-often-does-your-oh-think-about-the-roman-empire

Glad to see its now in Classics!

Dinosaurs, hands down. Also 2005, I miss it

Christ, that would be traumatic. Even if just as an observer.

Why would you want to see all that death and terror and suffering?

1997. To start all over again with the knowledge I have now.

I have a list - planning a six journey time machine is a game I play in my head on long car journeys

The Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace
Chicago Worlds Fair, 1933
Wansbeck Road, Hackney, c1923 to see if I can solve the mystery of my great grandfather
Ely pre Fen drainage - probably around 1072 (was Hereward real?)
Pre eruption Pompeii/Herculaneum
A Chartist rally

@AmazingBouncingFerret

Medieval times for some strange reason 🤔 or other

The style of costumes attire, the air of bit of mystery
The age of enlightenment learning ect

I'd love to walk ( or bicycle) around my home city at the turn of the last century- say 1910. Things looked so smart and handsome (obviously not all city would be like that!). Interesting time.
And women's fashion would suit my body type really well, plus my massive frizzy hair would look all the rage!

60's or 70's

I'm with you op, regency period certainly London aristocracy.
The scandal, and trying not to be found compromised sounds fun!