If you could go back in time and witness any big event in history, which one would it be

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For me it'd be the first commercial radio broadcast on 2nd November 1920. That's the best type of radio (even though it'd adverts every 15-20 minutes) but I'd love to see how it all began

Really not sure. There's too many to choose from but I'd love to see Henry 8th in action at the Tudor court and meet the famous Anne Boleyn, or the Roman Empire at its peak. I'd also love to meet Jane Austen whilst she was writing Pride and Prejudice. I'd love to know exactly who it was loosely based on.

It absolutely blows my mind that other humans existed and that we are all descended from just one type. When we say a certain behaviour is human nature we don't of course know if it's human nature of just homosapien nature. So I'd like to hang out with a different type of human, I think neanderthals were the closest to us. So its not witnessing an event as such, but I'd like to just be a fly on the wall in their daily lives.

Edinburgh. Just finished a great book. It was very specifically called the great mortality in Scotland.

The execution of Anne Boleyn - to witness her immense courage and fortitude, knowing that she was entirely innocent of the ‘crimes’ of which she had been convicted.

Oh fair enough, I didn't know that. I knew of the book title but only that it was about the Black Death.

I'll raise you the pyramids

Thoroughly recommend the book.

The execution of Anne Boleyn - to witness her immense courage and fortitude, knowing that she was entirely innocent of the ‘crimes’ of which she had been convicted.

J.S. Bach playing the organ, or Beethoven playing the piano.

It sounds great, I will definitely put it on my list, thank you. If you haven't read it - Ghost Map is a really good account of the Cholera Epidemic in London.

Can we share?!

I want to see what the dinosaurs actually looked like, and what happened to Madeleine McCann.

Of course, we'll go back and watch them both.

Thank you!

Not as highbrow, but I would’ve loved to have seen David Bowie live in the 70s. I did see him in the 80s though.

Perfect!

For me it would be seeing Norte Dame being opened for the first time for Christmas Mass. To see what it would have been like without any artificial light. I'm not religious at all but seeing it in person the first time over 20 years ago made me almost had be believing.

Or

To see the signing of the Magna Carta.

Or

Seeing the first pages come off a printing press and the changes it brought.

Or

Paris on VE Day 1945.

I mean, the big bang. If that's allowed.

Failing that, the Great Exhibition in Crystal Palace. I'd also like to see the Beatles play live and to see the dinosaurs!

The construction of Newgrange, Chichen Itza or the pyramids . When Europeans first arrived in the Americas.

Krakatoa (but from safe distance with binoculars)

The magnitude of it fascinates me.

In similar vein, I'd like to see them making Sacsayhuaman or similar Inca sites, as no one has been able to come up with a convincing explanation for how they were done.

If I could intervene: I'd go to 23 Fitzroy Road, North London at about 7.30 a.m. on 11 February 1963 and turn Sylvia Plath's oven off.

Oof, too much violence in your list, you must have a strong stomach!

I don't think that would be very safe! You might get put in the Tower of London and be unable to escape back to the future ....

I don't think the GreatFire of London would be very safe.