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When the author was in school during the 1960's, history class was usually little more than a horrendous mixture of boredom and stress. It was often taught by someone who had no love for the subject and consisted of an exercise in memorization of an endless list of dates and arcane facts. Images in books were small, in black and white, and were of some statue or ruined building. As the author has little talent for memorizing random collections of facts, exam scores were rather dismal. History only became interesting when we were fortunate enough to have a teacher who loved the subject and punctuated the lectures with humourous anecdotes.

All this began to change in the late 1970's with the rise in popularity of living history events such as American Civil War battle reenactments and Renaissance faires.