Menowercogitatus; Thinking Thursdays

Well... if you read last Thursday's post, you will recall that I mentioned the serendipitous nature of things turning up that I could add or gave further impetus to my project of creating a history thread on the blog this year. Quite often, one could put that down to the workings of mysteriousness and magicks in the cogs and electrons of the intermutts. However, there have been a couple of things that could not necessarily be generated thus. One example I will share here today.

I can be sure of it not pertaining to algorithms because it was simply an episode whose turn came in a long line of episodes on the History Hit podcast that I have pointed you to before. I hadn't listened over the first week of the month, so had some catching up to do, which I did on the Friday following my Thursday post two weeks back... the one about that survey of women's health. 

Thank you to those who commented and added to the narrative. In the final paragraph, I wrote that I felt there had been some regression in women's standing due to the re-emergence of antediluvian thinking. I also noted in one comment response that it is the nature of history to swing like a pendulum and that, at some point, there will be another couple of generations living the life of light and thinking they had sorted the negatives in the world. In last week's post, I also stated that all lives and history are given value in remembrance. Imagine my delight, then, when this episode of HH came to my ears... one in which the author Kate Mosse talks about her latest book, but also some very personal connection that inspired her to it. She also talks very eloquently about the purpose and need to maintain history... I don't mind admitting to you that as she spoke her last few sentences, it hit me right where it opened the tap, and I had a 'moment'. She could have been a fly on my inner wall, spying on my thoughts and sharing precisely what I have been thinking! Indeed, to be frank, there have been a few items come up at this start to the year which are picking up on similar themes that I have independently been following - and this says to me that there is an energy shift out there as more and more folk are starting to question the state of the world and are preparing for some level of change - which, if history holds faith, could be quite radical. I would go so far as to say we need something seismic to occur to properly get us back into the (mainly) positive groove that was the latter half of the 20th Century... but that's me digressing again!

Here it is, then, a most entertaining and interesting half an hour. If you prefer not to use Spotify, you may also listen HERE on the show's own website.