Imagining reality

 A little book that inspired me was where realism and fantasy meet, it is infact a book for artists and although I'm not good at art  some of my finer unseen moments reside within this catagory. Think about the characters that are in stories, Jane Austen for example, whilst studying english Pride and Prejudice, I noticed that there was a soldier and a clergy man. It seems as though inspiration could have come from two men that lived two centuaries before, Edmwnd Prys a clergy man and Thomas Prys a sailor and he was also a soildier (and poet). This may not seem like any great revelation to most that have studied history and Austens works. Neither then should it surprise anybody that Edmund Burke lived in Austen's time and so did Thomas Clarkson. I went about looking for patterns of pairs or groups of people throughout history and alive in the modern world. This novel was written in the rough period of 200 years ago. A pattern that appears to be repeating itself, although there is no reference to people alive today most of us can think of examples that further support this cycle being repeated a third time throughout history. An example of this could be that in the modern world (end of the 19th centuary and the start of the 20th centuary) there is a James Edward Williams and a James Thomas Williams. My side mission is to see if there is a connection between these cycles of society and the natural cycles of the planet. 

This little project involves me gathering as many persons from each of these eras and and seeing if I can paint a picture of society in the 1500s and in the 1700s. That being local societies and the well known of their time. An assessment can then be made as to how society changed, progressed and remain the same over the vaguely 200 year period. Then I plan on looking at what has changed and what has stayed  the same from  the 1700s until now again a vaguely 200 year period. My interests in water and coastal related engineering play a useful and somewhat significant role in understanding industries and professions of the eras that if you like are points in timelines of history. To get a full picture of a society it's vital to have an understanding of my fields of study and I therefore seem to flitter between topics learning in bursts of relevance. Then of course whilst studying history there are all the  significances that came before the era of study or reside within the timespans of relevance. When a story or picture comes to mind it will be published on my primary website Lisa's Water Cycles. 

The progression of this post when returned to in future is based around history from fiction. Giving a fuller picture of society than non-fiction and course guides typically provide. This may seem like  information that is straight foreward to many but the more that is studied of each society the more complicated that picture becomes.

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