*sigh*

[fenderlove]

I had a rather off night last night what with realizing that I have completely misplaced a fanfic file... Still can't find it nor any of my notes on paper about it... and, apparently, I never saved any of my research links, and now that I've gone looking for them again, I can't find any of them. Christ on an effin' bike

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[gillo]

You might be amused to note that the first Headmaster of City of London School was a Mr Giles.

Lecturers at Oxford at the period were known as Dons (still are, actually) and were required to be clergymen and celibate. It wasn't until late in the Victorian period that any College permitted married dons.

If I might suggest, you could put Spike's father into King's or University, both Colleges of London University technically but actually separate universities. Both started in the early 1830s, so would have been going strong by the time William's father was an undergraduate. He might well have secured a job teaching Classics at Westminster or one of the day schools (St Paul's, KCS or CLS for example) then secure a post at one of the London Colleges, which were new and lacked the social cachet of Oxford or Cambridge; that would make him, however affluent, socially slightly less secure.

Assuming William was born in about 1852, his father would have been a student in the 1840s or thereabouts. He might have dies in one of the cholera outbreaks which hit London mid-century.

Yes, I over-think this stuff way too much. *g*

[fenderlove]

You might be amused to note that the first Headmaster of City of London School was a Mr Giles.
Hee! XD

Lecturers at Oxford at the period were known as Dons (still are, actually) and were required to be clergymen and celibate. It wasn't until late in the Victorian period that any College permitted married dons.
That is very good to know. :D

one of the day schools (St Paul's, KCS or CLS for example) then secure a post at one of the London Colleges
I did write him at one point at KCS, so I feel better about my research skills on that one.

Yes, I over-think this stuff way too much. *g*
Don't worry, so do I. I've started posting my epic still-in-progress BtVS/Ats timeline, including my own not-quite-the-best-researched fanon material.

I'm getting my M.A. in history, and while I would love to do the Victorian Era as my first area of study, I am engaged to the French Revolution... but I keep being drawn back to 19th century London, particularly. It's endlessly fascinating.

[gillo]

I've been very tempted by a cross-disciplinary MA in Victorian Studies, though my first love is literature. However, I did History until the year before my final year at university and have read hugely in that period since - it's one of my favourites, though I can well understand the draw of the French Revolution. In my last year at school I did a research project on St-Just. Fascinating and repellent young man. I wonder of Angelus vamped him? I feel sure he and Darla were in Paris during the Terror, don't you?

[fenderlove]

I can imagine that Angelus probably would have vamped him! Nothing like adding "the Angel of Death" to the family! Darla and Angelus would have loved the Terror. All that blood in the streets, the chaos, sticking it to the real Aristocrats...

The Tales of the Slayers comic actually did have an English vampire named St. Just rather than Saint-Just. XD