I've always loved History - the whole continuum really, right up to the modern day - the sense of awe and wonder at all those people stretching out behind and (hopefully) ahead of me is almost overwhelming, deafening even (if that makes sense). And I do love to analyse and interpret historical events/archaeological evidence as I believe it is all contestable. If you add a love of myth, legend and folklore, and the fact that I grew up just 15 minutes walk from Stonehenge, you can probably see where I'm coming from.
I do think that part of my own politicisation came from the Stonehenge free festival and the govt/police reaction - all the sites we love do exist in the here and now, and they do belong to us all - so I guess that informs some of my opinions too.
Although I'm a sceptic I quite enjoy some of the more "esoteric" contributions we get as I'm very interested in the culture that produces that kind of stuff (I mean this from the perspective of someone standing outside of all that) and I really think if some of us didn't have such a violent reaction to all that, we'd probably have far less in the way of long acrimonious threads. =;o)
Finally, I always was a big fan of Copes music, and I was really pleased and intrigued when I discovered that he was really into a lot of stuff I liked - I'd been on the whole neolithic trip since I was a kid, and I really thought nobody else really cared about all that. It's great to read all the contributions here (and over at Meg Portal) and realise that so many other people are into this and have so much to share.