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The British also have an ambivalence to their history. There is a very large and strong group of people who, every weekend in the summer, are re-enacting English Civil War battles, every bit as much as our American friends. There's a lot of self-sufficiency about it, making their own uniforms and weapons etc..... though I get the nagging thought that they're ordinary 'middle England' getting out for the weekend (usually with the whole family) and doing a lot of quaffing of the olde ale.
However, ask a Brit about Scott of the Antarctic and he will know a fair bit - ask him about the Franklin expedition (similar kind of thing, but looking for the Northwest Passage) and he will probably not know a thing. Worth Googling, by the way.
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British re-enactors sre an example of how military history ought to be taught to people....I beleive some of these people spend thousands of pounds on their equipment just to make it as authentic as possible!...now thats dedication to hjistory!, my hat goes off to all of them! They are keeping the essential essence of history alive and kicking for all to see and share. Miniature gamers do a similar service for history, as do Modellers....I saw a particularly good set of Models for the last Royal Air Force Show....Modellers were asked to construct from scratch scenes depicting squadron affairs at the time of the Battle of Britain....the results were not only historically accurate but fitting tributes to the scratch building skills of these modellers/historians....Britain has wonderful hobby pictorial and magazines to back up all this wonderful activity....I only wish Australians had this kind of enthusism for their own history, which is very dull and boring by comparison to the rich tapestry of history that Britain offers!
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Or maybe it's just that Aussies are like Alaskans and are still making their history. "Last Frontier" and all.British re-enactors sre an example of how military history ought to be taught to people....I beleive some of these people spend thousands of pounds on their equipment just to make it as authentic as possible!...now thats dedication to hjistory!, my hat goes off to all of them! They are keeping the essential essence of history alive and kicking for all to see and share. Miniature gamers do a similar service for history, as do Modellers....I saw a particularly good set of Models for the last Royal Air Force Show....Modellers were asked to construct from scratch scenes depicting squadron affairs at the time of the Battle of Britain....the results were not only historically accurate but fitting tributes to the scratch building skills of these modellers/historians....Britain has wonderful hobby pictorial and magazines to back up all this wonderful activity....I only wish Australians had this kind of enthusism for their own history, which is very dull and boring by comparison to the rich tapestry of history that Britain offers!
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Cheer up. Consider what it would be like in a continent where every villiage is a battlefield next time a petty street-terrorist with a little square mustache starts making odd speeches...
After all in Europe it happens every fifty years. It's a wonder it's waited this long.
Visiting places with a lot of history is grand. However there is something to be said for living in a place without history.
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Blessings on my beautiful-but-boring Oregon.Cheer up. Consider what it would be like in a continent where every villiage is a battlefield next time a petty street-terrorist with a little square mustache starts making odd speeches...
After all in Europe it happens every fifty years. It's a wonder it's waited this long.
Visiting places with a lot of history is grand. However there is something to be said for living in a place without history.
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