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Episode 61: Dust

6, 4, 2018 - ‘Pelvis et umbra sumus’  (We are but dust and shadow – Horace, The Odes (23BC))   Welcome .... Read More

Episode 60: Our Books

6, 4, 2018 - “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”   (Winston Churchill) Welcome to .... Read More

Episode 59: The Book

14, 11, 2017 - . “The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading old ones.”  .... Read More

Episode 58: Codes

7, 11, 2017 - “Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech .... Read More

Episode 57: Handwriting

31, 10, 2017 - Welcome to Histories of the Unexpected where you will discover the history of things that you .... Read More

Episode 56: How to be a historian – Episode 5

24, 10, 2017 - “Good historians…have the future in their bones”   (Edward Hallett Carr, What Is .... Read More

Episode 55: Clocks Update

17, 10, 2017 - ‘The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure’ (William .... Read More

Episode 54: How to be a historian – Episode 4

10, 10, 2017 - ‘The historian without his facts is rootless and futile; the facts without their historian are .... Read More

Episode 53: Gloves Revisited

4, 10, 2017 - ‘See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand that I might .... Read More

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