• Question: If you could go back in time and live in any place/country, where would you go and why?

    Asked by anon-258105 on 30 Jun 2020.
    • Photo: Tiffany Chan

      Tiffany Chan answered on 30 Jun 2020:

      I guess it depends if you’re talking permanently or not! If it was just for a day, I would be tempted to go back to the era before human life just to see what the world looked like then! Alternatively, I’d also be keen to visit the Roman/Greek civilisations because what they managed to build/engineer in those days fascinates me. (Not sure I would want to live anywhere permanently, unless we’re talking a few months ago pre-COVID – I think I’d miss modern day things like electricity and internet etc too much!)
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      What about you?

    • Photo: Katherine Haxton

      Katherine Haxton answered on 30 Jun 2020:

      Probably before the industrial revolution, but only just before. It would be fascinating to see how society has changed. I’d probably prefer to live in the countryside than in a city.

    • Photo: Rachael Hallam

      Rachael Hallam answered on 30 Jun 2020:

      There was a golden period of scientific discovery in the eighteenth century when many elements were discovered, advances in telescopes made new discoveries in space, and arguments around evolution began to take shape – that would have been an exciting time to be a scientist!

    • Photo: Tanya Batchellier

      Tanya Batchellier answered on 30 Jun 2020:

      Like Tiffany – I wouldn’t want to go back and live in a different time permanently, I’d miss mod-cons too much!
      I’d like to go back and experience WWII era Britain – might be a bit of an odd choice but I’ve always been really interested in this period of time.
      I know women were able to do jobs such as in the munitions factories, mechanics or roles in the armed forces that they weren’t usually allowed to due to the country being shorthanded as the men were off fighting – it’d be fascinating to get a first hand account of how this made them feel and also how it changed the country. Also as we’ve become more aware of the need to be more sustainable, I could learn a lot about making everything last longer with that “make do and mend” attitude and rations.

    • Photo: Andy Kowalski

      Andy Kowalski answered on 1 Jul 2020:

      I would go to Canada as have family over there too and probably would have made more of my career there than over here.

      Reason for that is that Technologists and Chemists more appreciated over there than here.

    • Photo: Zoe Ingold

      Zoe Ingold answered on 2 Jul 2020:

      I wouldn’t want to go to another time permanently but I would love to go to the Americas before it was colonised by Europeans. I would also like to go back to the African continent around the same sort of time. Both of these areas had amazing civilizations that worked quite differently to any culture I’ve experienced before and I would love to experience that. I have a bit of an endless list of times I’d like to visit actually….I’d recommend the Jodi Taylor novels if you’re into this sort of stuff, they’re brilliantly written!

    • Photo: Alex Ttofi

      Alex Ttofi answered on 3 Jul 2020:

      Me, I’d choose – all of them – Could I become a vampire and float through all times enjoying them as I go along. It would be great to meet all the famous people through time from all walks of life — scientists, politicians, medics, literature scholars and so on without telling them you already know what they contributed to the future.

    • Photo: Heather Walton

      Heather Walton answered on 6 Jul 2020:

      I quite fancy ancient greece because it sounds fascinating and they discovered so much! And it would be warm! But I’d also be tempted to give up on trying to learn things and just go and explore as part of a nomadic group/tribe, probably in mountains. However overall I think we’re very lucky to live when we do, we have a high quality of life and spare time, we are safe from a lot of violence and diseases and have electricity and the internet and can travel the whole world. So I’m not sure I’d choose to go back at all!

    • Photo: Julie Watts

      Julie Watts answered on 7 Jul 2020:

      Could I go forward and see what the future holds instead? Also, I could then check out what research topics would be worth pursuing!

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