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

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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.

I'd like to go back to 1955 and the evening my mother met the father I never knew.

I would like to see for myself what truly happened and then follow my father back to Ireland and see how his life panned out and did he ever think of me. (I had an awful non relationship with my mother - she went on to marry someone else, left me with relatives, raised her own family - I had no contact for the last 30 years of her life.)

Thankfully I've had a great life but would still like to know what really happened as I discovered I was told many lies over the years plus I only ever once saw a photograph of my father - I wasn't allowed to keep it - and the facial similarity between us was astonishing.

I wouldn't do it! 24 hours wouldn't be enough and what if I wanted to stay? I would just be counting down the hours until I had to come back 😕
I would rather not have the experience just to leave it behind.

I would go back to 16th November 1931 and spend time with my Mum on her 5th birthday. I would love to have spent time with her when she was a child and see her life and those in it.

Dinosaurs, I want to see what they 'looked like'.

Am aware the various famous dinosaurs lived millions of yrs apart, so would need some time which ones to get to observe. Maybe solve mystery why TRex had those puny little arms.

I'd like to go back and have a cuddle with my mum. She died when I was 4.

I'd like to spend some time as a fly on the wall in the early lives of all my grandparents. It might take more than 24 hours though.

I'd go to rendalsham forest or roswell and see if there really was a ufo landing

I’d go back to 5th April 1940 & be with my great aunt while she delivered her stillborn daughter in her back bedroom in Coventry,

She had no help at all, no pain relief. Baby died & she was left unable to conceive again. Understandably she never recovered and used to talk about “Anne” (her baby) until the day she died. She was more of a mother to my mum than my grandma was. She deserved to be a mother for real.

This is a great thread.

there are SO MANY I’d like to go to.

i would like to go back and see my family in Victorian time. Were we rich or poor? What sort of house did they have? I’d like to go and see what sort of people they were. I’d also like to find out what happened to madeleine mccann.

There's so many things that I'd want to see from Henry VIII, Pompeii, Jane Austen era, WW2, I honestly can't choose. But I think it would be mid WW2 in New York

You can’t touch anything or interact with anybody, you’re basically like an invisible ghost who can walk round and view events and people exactly as they happened without altering or interfering with anything. So it’s more about what you’d find fascinating to witness for real, as it happened, rather than having your own experiences in that time.

A lot of my ancestors emigrated from Britain and Ireland to Australia and New Zealand in the early 19th century by sailing ship. The journeys took two thirds of a year, living in close quarters. One family member was lost overboard as a young child. As early emigrants they arrived to nothing but bush and huts. So many questions. What they were leaving behind, what it was like on the ship, and what they thought when they arrived.