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Lions!
The unexpected fruits of obsessive habits
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Rebecca Darley
Serendipity, sunshine and a sea view
Going back to places I saw before I was a historian!
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Old knowledge and new information in a funny story about a hapless traveller
And an announcement...
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March 2024

'It was as though I saw a wondrous tree'
The Dream of the Rood, c. 8th century
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Rebecca Darley
Hiding in plain sight
Hidden gems and gentle reminders
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Does history evolve?
‘Many of them can, even in the dark, distinguish between several kinds of money’
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So, what’s your favourite time in history?
Can I show you some stuff, instead?
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Life may be a cabaret, but the law can be a circus
The on-going conversation between what people think should be the case and what people actually do
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Rebecca Darley

February 2024

'Invalided home'
Making sense of 'home' and 'away' in the learned societies of 19th-century Asia
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Rebecca Darley
Finding Jesus...
...in the Ravenna mosaics
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Men looking at women looking at men in a story about women reflecting men
Mary of Egypt, the male gaze and the historian’s challenge
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Dispatches from Venice
The laughing post boxes of accountability
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