If you could go back in time to any point in history

[choolip]

If you could travel back in time to any location or era, when/where would you choose?

Rules are-
You get 24 hours
You are invisible so safety isn’t an issue and you can go to ‘off-limits’ places.
You are unable to touch anything so cannot alter or change the past, when the 24 hours are over you return straight back to the present and time resumes as normal.

You can move around as much as you want and use transport (if it exists in that time period) if you wish to see different locations within the time limit.

@2penceYes! Exactly what I was thinking when I read the op.

So many possibilities:

Pompeii and Herculaneum, or Londinium when the Romans were there,

Seeing the men who inspired the King Arthur and Robin Hood legends,

Seeing my mum when she was happy, pre my dad’s diagnosis 40 years ago. I have two memories since of her laughing.

Meeting my ancestors 100 years ago. Realised last night my nan had another older brother who is only mentioned, so far, in one census. Others have covered the same part of the family tree and he’s never appeared.

I do like the idea of going back to see my family 100 200 years ago when there were lots of them and they were close. Now there’s a handful of us and we barely communicate.

I’d love to go back to medieval or Tudor times and see what it was like. I’d love to live in times when there were much fewer people and I didn’t have to hear constant noise from people, industry and traffic so to experience that would be amazing.

If Ancestry.com is to be believed (doubtful 😄), I have a lot of very rich/influential people in my tree from those times and I’d love a nosey around their wonderful manor houses.

My family were tenant farmers in the New Forest at the turn of the 20th Century. My grandfather rode his horse through the forest to the coast to watch the Titanic sail by. I would love to travel back in time to follow him as he left the farm, made the journey and to see the ship pass by.

This is an incredible thread. Thanks @choolip .

Ooh good question. I would say yes you can use any knowledge you’ve gained once you’re in the present.

I would go back to the palaeolithic to see how Neanderthals, Denisovans and early modern humans lived.

I’d go back to when Jesus was ‘supposed’ to have been around to confirm once and for all if he was in fact real and was the son of god.

I’d go back to Russia where my ancestors are from and see how they lived 150 years ago (before the pogroms).

Would also love to have seen my mum as a young person so 1950s London - also to see buildings etc before they were all modernised.

There was an interesting programme about Pompeii recently. I went about 25 years ago but I swear we didn’t see a lot of what they showed on screen. .

Studio 54, NYC

I love the ancient world and can think of many, many things I’d like to go back and see, but if I could choose one only it would be an initiation into a Greek mystery cult.

OK - still a bit spoilt for choice but I think I will go back to Hamelin, in 1284, the day the children 'disappeared' and find out the truth of the legend of the Pied Piper.

I would go back to 18 years ago today and see what happens to Andrew Gosden.

Looking at all your answers I’m clearly extremely shallow lol

I almost chose this. I hope he is still alive and well.

Earlier today. Knowing what I know now, I wouldn't have posted on a thread that has turned out not to be a reasoned discussion as one might have hoped, but one in which people are going out of their way to be antagonistic, argumentative and goady. C'est la vie.

I’d go back to the summer of 69 and wander around a festival barefoot with flowers in my hair. I’d definitely want to be doing a bit of free love while there though, so it could be frustrating.

Alternatively it’d be quite cool to witness what happened when the first ever person worked out how to make fire. Imagine!

Grew up in West Country England in the 1980s, would go back there & wish I could take my DC. Didn't know how much this country would be changed.

This is so difficult as there are loads of time periods that I’d love to go back and see:

-my family back home (we are Assyrians). I’d love to know what happened to my great-grandfather (MIA in the Seyfo Massacre - he stayed back with other men to fight off the Ottoman and Kurdish forces, whilst the women and children fled). And what happened with family since then. They survived the Simele Massacre some years later. Both sides of my family (going back 2-3 generations) were pretty prominent tribal chiefs/leaders so there is some info, but - thanks to a lot of war and killings over the many decades - there isn’t a huge amount.

-I would love to once again sit with my grandfather whilst he did his translation work. He had a beautiful library/study, full of amazing books. I used to sit with him whilst he’d read Aramaic, Greek and Latin texts and talk through with me what he was reading. He was an amazing teacher, with so much patience. It fuelled my love of reading, history, and learning languages.

-going back to a time when I was little, and back to my parents’ big old house. Often there’d would 30plus people visiting or staying. Multiple languages being spoken, and so much music, food, laughter and good times.

other points in history:
-Pompeii and Herculaneum (pre August 24th 79!)
-the morning before my XH’s RTA - I’d ask him to drive his car in to work (not his bike)
-the night Katharine of Aragon got married to Arthur. What really happened?
-pretty much any point in Plantagenet or Tudor times…or WW1 and 2…or Greek and Roman times.

sorry, I LOVE history!

I researched the history of my house and it's inhabitants back to when it was build in about 1870. Was fascinating. I actually found it more interesting than family history tbh

Dinosaurs.

I'd love to go back to the early 1800s when dinosaur fossils were being discovered and everyone was truly amazed. Or when London Zoo first opened (1828?) and people could see animals they had never seen before.

It must have been amazing to be at the start of all that discovery.

I'd like to walk along a beach with Mary Anning and watch her find a fossil and see inside her workshop.

For self indulgence I would like to go back to The Golden Torch club a legendary Northern soul club from the 70s and before my time on the scene.

I would like to go to any of the famous stately homes and see how they were lived in and used for ,the balls and banquets of 200years ago.

I'd go back to the days when all there was was the primordial soup we evolved from. I'd give it a good old stir in the hope that better species than humans crawl out of it.