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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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