If you could be transported to any historical event or any time in the past, where/when would it be and why?

Question

Mine would be in either of these times/places - World War Two, Ancient Egypt or on the Titanic.

In answer to -
Do you want to go down with the Titanic too? No, I would want to get off in a lifeboat.

Would you like to be a slave in ancient Egypt? No, as one of the Egyptians....

How about in one of Hitlers concentration camps? No, as a normal person in England

Answer 1

In 1879 the British were fighting the Anglo Zulu War,and after Isandlwana where the Zulus gave us a bloody nose,
4000 of them attacked the small garrison at Rorke's Drift that's where i would have liked to be, maybe winning a VC alongside real hero's.

the first Christmas day when Jesus was born in Bethlehem

the 1966 world cup as Sir Geoff Hurst bliss

Answer 2

I'd go back to school (for as brief a visit as possible!) c 1955 and ask my old friend Donald Dewar whether he intended that devolution would lead to independence.

I know (because he told me) that it was expected to improve the governance of Scotland (it has) and to be a model for the improvement of Westminster (Robin Cook failed and they treated him like a bad smell) but I could make a good case that Donald wouldn't be too bothered if devolution led to independence and maybe he intended that it should.

The law assumes that you intend the natural consequence of your actions. If, with the benifit of hindsight, historians conclude that the natural consequence of devolution is to facilitate separation, then I will be certain that that was what Donald intended.

My SNP MSP admires the ambivalence of Donald's last speech in the UK parliament: If independence happens, then Donald predicted it; if it doesn't, nobody would say that he did.

My guess is that independence was his aim, and that Scotland will be independent sooner than the SNP government will find convenient.

I have not till recently supported independence, but do so now partly because of what I have said above, but also because I am ashamed to be British and afraid for my grandchildren growing up in a country where agents of the state in body armour break down doors in the middle of the night and take Scottish schoolgirls, still in their pyjamas, to jail because their parents are failed asylum seekers.

Fiona Hyslop, the Scottish education minister has sorted this out quietly. The previous Lab/ScotLibDem government tthought they had done so but were shocked to find that it didn't work. A parliament mindful of Scottish values, where 40% of the members sit down to pee is not going to let it go at that.

Ask for more if you want to know what Gordon Brown doesn't know about devolution.

Answer 3

Do you want to go down with the Titanic too? Would you like to be a slave in ancient Egypt? How about in one of Hitlers concentration camps?

No Thanks!!

If I went back in time, I'd like to go back to where I was 16 or so. Maybe. And maybe not. Hmmmmmmm........

Answer 4

When a horse called Billycan won the Irish Grand National at 33 / 1

Answer 5

I would choose to go back to when Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg address. It was one of the greatest speeches in history and I love people who have good speaking abilities another would be 1446 bc when God parts the red sea for Moses and the israelities I have always wonderedwhat it would look like walking with huge walls of water surrounding you.

Answer 6

Either when Stonehenge was built so that I'd know, the time of Jesus so that I could take pictures or 1985 so that I could really party.

Answer 7

I will go back to the time when my father was still alive, just after I turned 9, and try to stop him form getting sick or if I can't, maybe just get to know him better.

Answer 8

Only 2 answers with Jesus in them.. How about the Crucifixion?

Answer 9

Probably last week, to the bookies, the winning Euro Lottery numbers and at least £5 in my pocket. :)

Answer 10

1066 Battle of Hastings...I'd tell Harold to keep an eye out for those Normans