Wednesday 13 April 2011

A beginning...





















Well I guess we all have things that influenced our coming into the hobby and even our love of certain periods. For me it was a heady mix of Airfix 20mm plastic Romans and Britains, Trojan 54mm figures and our local post office owner spending time with me happily when I hummed and hawed over which 54mm figure I would buy with my pocket money...

Then there were the Ladybird books- colourful,exotic engaging especially these above. I loved the picture of the Gordian Knot being sliced and the attack on Hadrian's wall- a place I visted from early school age with my parents for day trips. Not to mention the fiction by the likes of Rosemary Sutcliff and Henry Treece and of course those inimitable characters in the Asterix books too!


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  1. I still have my Ladybird 'Alexander The Great'. It was a big influence on me as a kid; he was one of my heroes.

    I actually wanted to name our first child Alexander, but my wife didn't like the name :(

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    1. It's a great book for an occasional browse still .
      A shame re name :(

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  2. Most of (90%) my own knowledge of classical history come from reading Asterix!

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    1. And an excellent primary source it is too. By the way have you seen the new one out about Asterix and the picts? I have yet to see it in the flesh,sorry paper...

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