• Question: if you could go back in time and live in a time period to study the way things live which one would it be and why?

    Asked by sloshythrower92 to John, Laura, Luke, Rob, Ruth on 17 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: Laura Finney

      Laura Finney answered on 17 Jun 2016:

      I’d love to go back to the 80s as there were so many amazing things discovered. DNA was discovered then, windows 1.0 was shown for the first time, and technology advanced quite a bit. Also the 80s seemed fun and they had some fantastic films that came out!

    • Photo: Ruth Patchett

      Ruth Patchett answered on 17 Jun 2016:

      I’d quite like to go back to the 1800’s and go to the Galapagos Islands with Darwin!

    • Photo: Luke Williams

      Luke Williams answered on 19 Jun 2016:

      I’m going to wind the clock a bit further back.

      I’d like the Renaissance period, pretty hard to pick a date, so will just go with the Fall of Constantinople in 1453. The end of the Roman Empire, and perhaps one of the key sparks of the Renaissance (though my history is hardly perfect, the mass migration of scholars ahead of the fall of the city did help I believe).

      Living in a true age of (re)discovery, perhaps in an Italian city state where things are a bit more fluid, sounds like a great time to live. Perhaps working with the church, or with the patronage of a wealthy lord, a great deal of work could be done.

      The ties between religion, science and politics were probably at their height in this era, and the merchant republics might be an interesting political structure to live in. The spread of new and old ideas, the maelstrom of new advances and challenges to authority, whether it be the Papacy, monarchies or traditionally held wisdom, it sounds like a heck of a time to be alive!

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