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October 2024

Trust yourself!
Except if you're a dodgy con artist. Then trust other people's trust.
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Rebecca Darley
'We praise the past, but live in our own times'
An early modern fantasy of times gone by
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Rebecca Darley
(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
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Rebecca Darley
4
ReOrienting the Sasanians
A little book about big things (with a hidden bonus feature!)
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Rebecca Darley

September 2024

The challenge of the obscure
(Or how I read a totally brilliant book with a title that didn't deliver what I expected then realised I couldn't have done any better)
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Rebecca Darley
Judge not, lest we be judged?
Common sense and common courtesy
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Rebecca Darley
They barter, we swap
Trading up by trading terms
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Rebecca Darley
2
Medieval Basket Weaving
The coolest class you’ll probably never take
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Rebecca Darley
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August 2024

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