First things First


This is my first blog. This is certainly not my idea of an ideal topic for my first blog but my history lecturer thought it's an excellent idea to blog about a subject that I immediately stopped taking at school the moment I got that chance. 

Let me paint you a picture, seeing as I'm an artist rather than an historian.... you know that student at the back of history class who looks at the lecturer with no soul in their eyes while he's jabbering away about some gentleman like Joseph Niepce who produced the first photographic image or Friedrich Koenig who invented the first ever steam-powered printing press? That student that nods at the right times trying to seem, or even be, interested but epically fails by zoning out completely to topics like the drive to college that morning or why your lecturer always wears black? That student who, when they return from their zoning out trip, realizes the class progressed 5 pages in the textbook and then plays games with themselves trying to figure out where the lecturer is reading and then frantically starts highlighting even though the previous 10 pages are void of any highlighter marks? That student who, whilst experiencing all of the above, is fighting an intense internal battle trying to stay awake because they only had 3 hours of sleep the past two nights because they were slaving away on other assignments? That exact student... is me! 

See, I have enough of my own past to dwell on. I don't need to dwell on the past of the whole world as well. Rather teach me something that will make me strive for the future. The only history I'm really interested in is music in the 80s and the fashion in the 20s amongst a few others. So, needless to say, this won't be a blog for major historians where we debate about civil wars and controversial presidents who were mysteriously assassinated in the same way and enthusiastically discuss the aesthetic appeal of all the alphabets that contributed to the Latin alphabet we utilize today. No. This blog will be for those people who feel like their soul dies a little in every history lesson but HAVE to fight the focus battle because it's a compulsory subject. I'll share the bits and bobs I picked up during each lesson and the new terms I was told to define as well as the dead people I learnt about but don't care much for, may they rest in peace. Hey, I might even throw in a time line or two just to clear things up for those who zoned out a little harder than I did ;) 

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