Archive - Coffee with Clio

November 2024

Serendipity, community, and becoming what we do...

Nov 29 •

This is the oldest history newsletter in the world!

(On Substack, about the global, deep past, written in Yorkshire, by me)

Nov 22 •

Oh deer-y me...

Sometimes history is very funny (and always tells us things)

Nov 15 •

Of sea and stone and the far horizon: metaphors matter

Fernand Braudel, the 'Anthropocene' and rooting deep in time

Nov 8 •

Tinker, tailor, soldier, cheesemaker...

Or, if you can't trust a cheesemonger, who can you trust?

Nov 1 •

October 2024

Trust yourself!

Except if you're a dodgy con artist. Then trust other people's trust.

Oct 25 •

'We praise the past, but live in our own times'

An early modern fantasy of times gone by

Oct 18 •

(Do) We Have to Talk About the Romans(?)

The ancient world was, thankfully, not all like the Roman Empire but there's a good reason we often think it was

Oct 11 •

ReOrienting the Sasanians

A little book about big things (with a hidden bonus feature!)

Oct 4 •

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