I’ve commented before that I have a jackdaw mind: I love shiny facts, and will follow the hint of one for miles through books and around the internet, until I can get my beak on it and carry it away into the recesses of my overstuffed memory.
It might amuse you to know the books and videos currently feeding this obsession (mostly Georgian and British focused, but a few reaching into other places and other eras):
Taste: Kate Colquhuon
Smallpox, Syphilis and Salvation: Sheryl Pearson
The Enlightened Economy: Joel Mokyr
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World: Peter Frankopan
The Secret History of Georgian London: Dan Gruikshank
Crown and Country (TV series on DVD): Edward Windsor as narrator
Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit (TV series): Mary Beard as narrator
The Story of China (TV series): Michael Wood as narrator
I’m intending to read (and have on my bedside table):
Redcoats Against Napoleon: Carole Divall
Europe under Napoleon: Michael Broers
In these Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon’s Wars: Jenny Uglow
(Bit of a theme, there)
The Fortune Hunter: Peter James Bowman
Magpie, Squirrels and Thieves: Jacqueline Yallop
The Unruly Queen: Flora Fraser
Wilful Impropriety: Edaterina Sedia
Unquiet Lives: Marriage and Marriage Breakdown in England: Joanne Bailey