Tales From the Crypt

[blahflowers]

Yesterday, on reading one of the schoolkids (13 y.o.) piece of imaginative writing about life during Elizabethan times I had to explain that they didn't have newsagents, gasoline, cans of gasoline and barbecues. I did let pass the Scottish neighbours in pre-James IV-London and didn't have time to read the whole thing, so don't know what other anachronisms existed. I know that children believe that history doesn't really start before their birth, so everything before that point smooshes together.

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[beebarf.livejournal.com]

There would have been Scots in both Elizabethan and James IV London (although I'm assuming you mean James VI) - just because we weren't one nation didn't mean that there wasn't migration for certain trades, and there was a lot of intermarriage between English and Scots nobility - I'm reading about Arbella Stuart atm, her family being a case in point

At the time, Scotland had four universities to England's two, so clerics, medics and the like were quite often Scottish. Plus ca change...

I've read 'professional' fiction with more anachronisms...

PS my anorak is hanging by the door...

[cherielabombe.livejournal.com]

I kind of like imagining an Elizabethan London with newsagents, cans of gasoline and barbecues. Did ol' Bill Shakespeare stop off at the Tesco Express for some fags?