Who would like to go back to the middle ages?

[slowmotion]

Ironically, the black death benefited the survivors and brought about social change due to the shortage of labour. Market forces meant that if conditions didn't suit a worker, there was plenty of competition for their services if they were prepared to move.

Norman Tebbit would have been correct......but the bike hadn't been invented for another 400 years or so.

 

[Andy in Germany]

The government would love it. They'd not need to pay old age pensions as few would live long enough.

I think I'm correct in saying that when state pensions were introduced to the UK, the government set eligibility to start two years later than the average male life expectancy.

 

[Andy in Germany]

If you survived the Black Death, then opportunities abounded to work fewer hours for more reward, and for the first time, a bit of social mobility to move into the Lord of the Manor's empty gaff.

This thread would make a passable Monty Python film script.

Illustrated well by the Horrible Histories team:

 

[Time Waster]

I bet there was more of sense of community then that there is now. Of course if not want to live in the middle ages. I'm m satisfied living the life I've got.

All the negatives listed but if you did live then it would be normal life. Chances are you'd just get on with it as it's normal. I'm sure you'll find your fun among it all. Possibly creating the large family for example!

 

[Poacher]

Essential reading for anyone seriously considering going back to the middle ages.
I'm only up to page 24 and learnt lots already!

 

[rikki]

I'd go back and pre-invent the bicycle. Riding them on well designed routes would be so ingrained in culture cars wouldn't get a look in by the time they got invented.

You could pre-invent a lot of things.
Some practical chemistry or engineering knowledge would make you a valuable person.
Care would have to be taken with some of your knowledge and ideas, else you are burnt as a heretic or witch.

 

[classic33]

You could pre-invent a lot of things.
Some practical chemistry or engineering knowledge would make you a valuable person.
Care would have to be taken with some of your knowledge and ideas, else you are burnt as a heretic or witch.

You mean like building a craft capable of flight with a man/woman on board?

Paint/dye it all black and take to the night skies.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

You could pre-invent a lot of things.
Some practical chemistry or engineering knowledge would make you a valuable person.
Care would have to be taken with some of your knowledge and ideas, else you are burnt as a heretic or witch.

I'd only go for visits. Park my time machine behind a bush . Then when the cry "Burn the heretic" goes up I'll be off in a noisy eeeh Aah eeeeh aaa BBC radiophonic workshop noise.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uwJ8BNL33c

 

[numbnuts]

I would be in great demand being a Blacksmith

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I would be in great demand being a Blacksmith

The horse wasn’t invented till 1567AD.

 

[Alex321]

The horse wasn’t invented till 1567AD.

Blacksmiths had plenty of work before horse shoes were invented

 

[Smokin Joe]

I wouldn't even want to go back to the sixties or seventies. I strongly suspect those who are nostalgic for even the fairly recent past would get a nasty shock if they had to live in it again.

And if you're black, female or gay, don't even think about it.

 

[classic33]

I would be in great demand being a Blacksmith

They used to do tooth pulling and amputations back then, as a sideline.

 

[tyred]

I wouldn't even want to go back to the sixties or seventies. I strongly suspect those who are nostalgic for even the fairly recent past would get a nasty shock if they had to live in it again.

And if you're black, female or gay, don't even think about it.

That's very true. There are certain things I do like or prefer but generally speaking I shudder to think about how narrow-minded and inward looking many people were like here in the 1980s when I was growing up. Sadly there are still certain parts where it is still like that.

 

[Teamfixed]

Two of my bikes have down tube shifters...