A few decades too late...

While revising I have realised a few things, most of which I knew already but have come closer into focus the past view days.

I really dislike postmodernism and literary therory, particularly how it and all it's jargon has been applied to history

I prefer social history to cultural history

I prefer women's history to gender studies
(though some day I do want to write a paper about cross dressing in literature and art in premodern china)

I am a feminist.

Oral history is not all that.

Historians today focus entirely too much on the modern, their is far too much of an "interdiscplinary" approach to everything. As a result everything gets confused, theory becomes more important than practice, and lots of bad history gets written.

Plus if I had been born a couple decades earlier I would have gotten to see Bowie when he was young and cute and covered in glitter and Iggy when he was totaly insane.