Development of a riverside village in England. From A Street Through Time, illustrated by Steve Noon.
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reddit.comPosted Aug 23, 2022, 3:50 PM UTC
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reddit.comJust stumbled across this at the library. Really fun. Kind of crazy when the dark ages came and the town basically reverted 3 pages..
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Totally! And then society stuck like that for 300 to 500 years before they had indoor plumbing again.
I totally didn't know that the "Renaissance period" was people, who only knew of the dark and middle ages, discovering ancient civilizations that existed before them. And these ancients had advanced societies, technology innovations, language and philosophical ideas that they never knew about. Then this created a rush of people who went to discover ancient civilizations and what secrets they knew. Bringing that to modern day, that frenzy of the Renaissance period is the source stories about forgotten knowledge of an ancient civilization.
Will future humans look back to a Nokia handheld phone and wonder what sort of secrets does it hold?
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That image is highly exaggerated. The people of the middle ages were absolutely aware of the civilisations that came before them.
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Not only that, but the contrast of pre-urban civilization to civilization, with all of the amenities depicted, to the supposed reversion back to a "primitive" lifestyle in the middle ages, is a fallacy.
The reality is that 95% of people throughout all those periods were peasant farmers living a very basic lifestyle. It's not like everyone was an urbanite living in a major Roman city with running water and advanced engineering.
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It's almost as if, it is an illustration, too illustrate a point.
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Books like this also are a big reason why I became a historian— but I never heard of this book! I’ll have to get it for my niece or nephew
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Try the cross section series I can’t remember who they are by but Cross Section of a Man O War was my favourite
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Loved this book as a child, always thought about that barrow being repurposed as a little bit sad. You should post the street with the plague rat catcher!
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I LOVE books like this when you get to glimpse into people's lives in the pic.
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Dammmnn this brought back memories. Thanks for posting
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I remember loving this book as a kid, or at least the medieval sections.
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I could not check this book out fast enough from the school library as a kid. Legendary book
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We need to know more about the what happened to the stone circle and ancient barrow
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Very cool! More of these sequences :P
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I love this book!
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I loved these. I had city through time, which I believe showed London from tribal times until today.
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Ah this ol' classic. If you want to buy it, make sure you get an original copy and not the newer one as some of it was needlessly altered.
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Was it? How so?
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Yeah a few things were swapped out or edited, I can't remember the details I'm afraid.
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This is great! Reminds me of 750 Years in Paris by Vincent Mahe, which focuses on just couple buildings through time.
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I bought this book for my kid but she's too young to really appreciate it. I've looked at it loads, even my mum likes it.
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When a new settlement is founded today, they still use the same progression. 😋
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This was one of my favorites as a kid!
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This book sparked my interest in history as a kid, and now I'm in grad school for ancient history. One of my all-time faves
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F for the ancient stone circle. It had a good run.
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I absolutely love this
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I had this book as a kid, and I think it was the origin of my love of paper towns and historical illustration.
I had it also, it was amazing ! Wimmelbilder with great educative interest
I had it too!
There were so many little Easter eggs of continuity over the timeframe!
Edit: as a kid, I could never find out when the chest was buried (pictured at 6 on page 3)
Someone help me solve this decades long mystery
The same illustrator also created ‘A City Through Time’, which the same basic idea with a broader perspective.
They’re a great pair of books, I particularly like that in this one a lot of objects from earlier eras end up in the city museum in the final image
I loved this book and so many like it as a Kid - was always fascinated by them!
I think I remember it being in the library corner at primary school, loved it!
I just bought it recently :) it's great
Steven Biesty’s Cross Sections books are very similar to this book. Highly recommend! Many of the bet ones are out of print but are available cheap in the used section of Amazon.
Same I LOVED THIS BOOK! Everyday at reading time I would bust this book out. Luckily the teacher never really noticed that I was grabbing the same book for multiple months lol
I still have that book, it's really cool
Just ordered it second hand for 5 bucks. Thanks.
Very nice.
Holy shit THANK YOU for reminding me of the name of this book! It was my favorite!!!