On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
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The strange thing is, I picked up knowledge about the Romans and Victorians from *somewhere*. Maybe it was a form of osmosis from popular culture and museums and references in other books and from TV?
Doh! I studied Latin (and "Classical civilisation") at school! That explains it! :-)
And some of the memories of Victorian stuff from primary school, including learning about Florence Nightingale and Elizabeth Fry, are starting to resurface. OK, Fry (and Nelson) aren't exactly Victorian era, but it's close enough. And it seems that the focus was on people and events rather than broad eras and dates.
Carcharoth