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Episode 63: Snow
6, 4, 2018 - “A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.” Carl Reiner .... Read More
Episode 62: Christmas 2017
6, 4, 2018 - “What if Christmas…perhaps…means a little bit more!” (Dr Seuss, How the Grinch Stole .... Read More
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
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