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

[MyPithyCat]

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

When Jane Austen wrote pride and prejudice. I'd get her to just pop my name throughout instead of Lizzy.

Yes! I read an article about this only yesterday and thought 'wow'!!

To go back and watch the comings and goings of posh people in Bath in the 17 and 1800's. To live a day in the life of an Earl's daughter but then also a ladies maid and scullery maid...the disparity!!)

To experience the opulence of 1st class travel on the titanic (from Southampton to cherboug only thanks very much! 😬)

And yes, defo agree with stonehenge, VE day in london, pyramids and the great exhibition!

I don't think I'd want to see the crucifixion, but I'd love to meet and talk with him, maybe the Sermon on the Mount if I could get near him :)

Yes!!
This is mine. I think about it far too much.

The Great Exhibition in Hyde Park. Beautiful.

The historical events that must interest me are battles. And I'm certain witnessing them would be awful so they are ruled out

So I'd like to go to 54 Berners Street, London. On the 27th November 1810

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berners_Street_hoax

I’d like to have watched the Titanic go down (from the safety of another boat!).
Possibly a bit morbid, but I have a fascination with large structures ‘failing’.

I remember the scenes on the TV, would have been incredible to have been there.

The Beatles final concert on the rooftop in London

Yes, same. I would not expect to see anything supernatural in the magical sense because my reading of the New Testament is that it's about faith and not showy displays. The real seismic change takes place in the soul.

My only memory of this on TV was David Hasselhoff performing there, it's just about the cheesiest thing and I'm sure it's on YouTube. I may have been focusing on the wrong thing but to be fair I was a kid and didn't really get the enormity of it. I have a friend now who grew up in East Berlin during that time and actually experienced the incomprehensible life change when the wall fell.

The Christmas night in WW1 where the two sides got together.
The Globe rehearsals and performances.
Watching Monet painting the Waterlilies.
Oscar Wilde's trial.

Right, miracles would be nice, but that is not what I would hope for - a conversation would be an incredible privilege.

Me too. I love seeing artists impressions of all the people skating and having fun. Mind you, I'd go back as an urchin and pelt all the posh folk with snowballs.

For some reason, I recall watching Timmy Mallet on whatever kid's show he was hosting at the time, going on about the BLERlin wall. I think the word 'bler' was some kind of in joke on the show. It was the one where he used to do Mallet's Mallet, if anyone remembers.

The resurrection!

I asked my partner and they said this too - ‘who was he’ Also that they’d like to know what he said to compare it to what we are told in the bible now.

I can’t make my mind up about what I’d want to witness. I’ve thought about just about everything from The Big Bang, to the salon of Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas in pre WW2 Paris.

That's my choice too. I would so love to have been there.

The Sermon on the Mount - and I am not religious in the slightest.

My cousin was!! Amazing for her.

Same. I’d love to have met or even seen Jesus. I’m not religious at all either but I’d be fascinated to hear him speak.

a few have mentioned the Berlin Wall- I was there, and yes, it was exciting. Exciting and tragic - all those lives lost trying to escape over the years, and all those lives lived in unimaginable circumstances. (I crossed over to east Berlin while it was still east Berlin, and I’ll never forget it.)

Another vote for the Great Exhibition 1851, the creation of Stonehenge and the pyramids but I'd also like to add to being in the vicinity on the day witnessing Mrs Pankhurst standing up and declaring enough of this bullshit....

The first atomic bomb test, as I've always been fascinated by defining moments in human history. Even though it had yet to be used on humans, would it feel like terrifying obscenity?

I wonder if people in 100 years will want to go back to witness the birth of AI. Will it be seen as another "loss of innocence" moment for humanity?

I’d like to see Sarah Bernhardt play Hamlet

Anna Pavlova dancing.
Darwin in the Galapagos Islands.