Some good answers so far!
Ancient Greece. I'd love to have a few rounds with those gits back then...
In general I would like to go back to see some ancient civilizations, so Greece, Rome and Egypt appeal to me. Would love to see how "democracy" started and would be interested to see gladiator battles and the ancient olympics too. Also - if Ancient Rome is ANYTHING like as raunchy as it is depicted in "Rome" on TV.......I'm there.
31st May, 1916 off the coast of Denmark. Just to see a line of British warships stretching for several miles, and scaring the bejesus out of the German fleet!
Thjat must have been quite a sight. Battle of the Somme and Flanders too. Would make you proud to be British, how times have changed!
I would like to go back to the early seventies and spend a day with my Dad when we were both 21......
Either that or maybe go back to 1939-1945 era and spend a day with my Grandad battling it out for queen and country. I am assuming I cant be killed etc during this time of course.
I'd like to go back to mid-seventies Leigh-on-Sea to see what being a teenager and young adult was like for my dad.
New York in the roaring 20s
Yes to this! Broadway, music halls, and the bright lights of a city which was years ahead of its time.
Sure we've done something of this type before on here....anyway, provided I'd be immune from beheading or anything, then the court of King Henry VIII
Less so his court, but I'd certainly love to see England and London in Tudor and Stuart times, to travel around on horse and cart, to use turnpikes and early roads, to witness London before the Great Fire of 1666. IN fact, bit of counter-factual history, I'd like to go back to prevent the Great Fire of London from ever happening and see how London would have evolved without the need to start building the city from scratch to the new building regulations brought in afterwards.
Two or three have always stuck out for me. First of all Victorian/Dickensian London. I love reading books set in 19th Century London and the descriptions of it. The cobbled streets, the dim glow of the gas lanterns lighting the streets, fog so thick that you can hear the sound of the horses hooves on the cobbles but can hardly see them. And I'd love to see a London Christmas market in the 19th Century and, believe it or not, I'd like to see the slums in the East End first hand to see just how awful they really were.
I'd like to go back to Colonial America too, when Britain was still in control and only the Eastern seaboard states existed, and see a proper colonial 17th Century township. I'd stay past the end of British rule and be there to see what tensions and Northern/Southern divisions were really like in the run-up to the Civil War. And I'd love to be there as the new Americans moved westwards and opened up the American frontier - always fascinated me.
Lastly, I'd quite like to be in the States in the 50s, the sort of thing you see when Marty McFly goes back to 1955. And then to be there for when the moon landings were on TV, and when JFK was assasinated.
