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Inspired by last night when I asked Alex to pick out a medieval This Sceptred Isle for me. He read out the dates on the box and I said sleepily "So, Elizabeth I and James I probably" and he was very impressed that I actually knew that from the dates. I asked him which century Henry VIII reigned in and he found it hard. So am I weird for knowing this stuff, or is he unusual for not knowing it. I can't really remember where I got taught it, I just kind of picked it up. I can also name all the Kings and Queens since William I in order, given a little thinking time, which I know is weird.
Inspired by last night when I asked Alex to pick out a medieval This Sceptred Isle for me. He read out the dates on the box and I said sleepily "So, Elizabeth I and James I probably" and he was very impressed that I actually knew that from the dates. I asked him which century Henry VIII reigned in and he found it hard. So am I weird for knowing this stuff, or is he unusual for not knowing it. I can't really remember where I got taught it, I just kind of picked it up. I can also name all the Kings and Queens since William I in order, given a little thinking time, which I know is weird.
I'm pretty sure about those dates
Date: November 26th, 2009 08:01 am (UTC)From:I could still easily have done the century and had no doubt about that; the decade would have been a little trickier but I would have got fairly close.
My history knowledge is from reading non-fiction subsequent to school and university, and more than that, from reading historical fiction.
[ETA - Except! I mis-remembered the date when remembering it from the book above - instead of 1558 I remembered 1588. D'oh.]