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Finding Lost Cities: Part Three

Finding Lost Cities: Part Two

Finding Lost Cities: Part One

Why Byzantium?

This is the oldest history newsletter in the world!

Oh deer-y me...

Of sea and stone and the far horizon: metaphors matter

Tinker, tailor, soldier, cheesemaker...

Trust yourself!

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

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

ReOrienting the Sasanians

The challenge of the obscure

Judge not, lest we be judged?

They barter, we swap

Reading Suggestions

Medieval Basket Weaving

Tax or tribute?

The romance of lice

Swords, spears, elephants

A song of kings and poets

How common is common sense?

The heroic hound of Eduthanur

Reasons to be cheerful

We are gathered here today…

A transferred touch

The HAL Airport Hoard

Translating the Past

Back to Hyderabad

What is a nation?

Books I wish I hadn’t read?

Bilingual coins...

An ode to a place like home

What the Romans tell us about being modern

‘We can’t go back the way we came’

A problem of subterranean pigeons

Lions!

Serendipity, sunshine and a sea view

Old knowledge and new information in a funny story about a hapless traveller

'It was as though I saw a wondrous tree'

Hiding in plain sight

Does history evolve?

So, what’s your favourite time in history?

Life may be a cabaret, but the law can be a circus

'Invalided home'

Finding Jesus...

Men looking at women looking at men in a story about women reflecting men

Dispatches from Venice

Straits Branch!

History and the unreliable witness

Teleology and Presentism

What makes primary sources primary, anyway?