it looks like i asked in the right place, didn't i?SammyDroppedHisShorts wrote:BG
I teach History
you were off this week right, flash? i had a slight change of plans, mate. instead of taking one month vacations in september i'm gonna quit my job in march and spend april, may and june in europe. at least one month of those i'm definetaly staying in britain. i want to watch as many arsenal matches as possible, but there are a few other places i want to go for a couple of days in between games as well (dublin, galway, a few castles in scotland, lake district, etcetera).flash gunner wrote:bG when you come over in September will you be doing much travelling within Britain or will it just be a London/Arsenal thing? There are loads of historical places outside of the capital and i could give you some pointers.
Sorry this is off the topic of books but to see them with your own eyes is better in many ways
sorry mate, i didn't ignore it. in fact i laughed quite a bit with the page on walesMegaGooner wrote:OK
If I were travelling that distance to the UK, with your itinerary, I would go to an Irish wiskey distillery, Stonehenge, a few castles and Loch Ness...
Thanks for ignoring my previous post
for a second i thought it was real, when i got to the picture of the three guys i kinda wondered "hey, this must be where frank lives!" 
If there was a leprechaun in the links, would you have thought of Ireland? and DB10? I hear he got "problems" Coming too soon and all that jazz....brazilianGOONER wrote:sorry mate, i didn't ignore it. in fact i laughed quite a bit with the page on walesMegaGooner wrote:OK
If I were travelling that distance to the UK, with your itinerary, I would go to an Irish wiskey distillery, Stonehenge, a few castles and Loch Ness...
Thanks for ignoring my previous post
) bibliography. or i could just email you a pdf... 
Yes mate had a week on the south coast and that what it made me think of when you asked for history books. Luckily we only had 1 day where the weather wasnt too good and being a history lover we went to town called Battle and you can walk around the battlefield of the last time Britain was succesfully invaded and conquered which was in the year 1066 with a small phone style guide it points out all the points of the landscape and battle points and as you walk around eventually taking you to the point they believe the English King was killed. This part of our history is very famous and is taught in schools etc but to actually be there and listen to the story as you walk is quite amazing....brazilianGOONER wrote:you were off this week right, flash? i had a slight change of plans, mate. instead of taking one month vacations in september i'm gonna quit my job in march and spend april, may and june in europe. at least one month of those i'm definetaly staying in britain. i want to watch as many arsenal matches as possible, but there are a few other places i want to go for a couple of days in between games as well (dublin, galway, a few castles in scotland, lake district, etcetera).
i'm spending a few hours everyday planing the trip and reading about the places, and ended up falling in love with the history. that's the reason of my sudden interest in european history. i want to read a couple of books on the subject so that when i'm over i can really understand what happened and spot the important things
about pointing some historic sites outside london, i'm surely going to ask you to do that, mate. i want to see as much as possible in the short time that i'm over there
cheers, quartz. i really enjoy walking long distances, so i'll hope for good weather to meet as much as i can by foot.QuartzGooner wrote:Make sure you take different bus and walking tours of London. They have loads with different themes. Time Out magazine, a weekly magazine, will list these.
cheers, davey! i'll read a couple on early history like the 'dummy' ones and then i'll concentrate on 20th century. those two that you recommend have very good reviews on the web, looks great. thanks, mate!xDAVEYx wrote:Hobsbawm, E., Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991 (London, 1994)
Mazower, M., Dark Continent: Europe’s Twentieth Century (London, 1998)
both left wing writers, but written in a refreshingly thematic way, as opposed to a dull, chronological method.
if you would like to know why y** is censored i can point you in the direction of:
Holmes, C., Anti-Semitism in British Society 1876-1939 (London, 1979)
Payne, S. G., A History of Fascism, 1914-1945 (Wisconsin, 1995)
Thurlow, R., Fascism in Britain, A History 1918-1985 (Oxford, 1987)
if you're REALLY interested in British fascism and anti-Semitism let me know and i'll post the entirety of my dissertation (first class
but seriously, those 2 at the top are cracking books.
that sounds amazing, flash. i looked at it, the place looks terrific:flash gunner wrote: Yes mate had a week on the south coast and that what it made me think of when you asked for history books. Luckily we only had 1 day where the weather wasnt too good and being a history lover we went to town called Battle and you can walk around the battlefield of the last time Britain was succesfully invaded and conquered which was in the year 1066 with a small phone style guide it points out all the points of the landscape and battle points and as you walk around eventually taking you to the point they believe the English King was killed. This part of our history is very famous and is taught in schools etc but to actually be there and listen to the story as you walk is quite amazing....
