Historical change tends to happen in big leaps, rather than by gradual evolution.
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History’s ‘The Vikings’ at Comic-Con 2013
History's original scripted series Vikings focuses on a period of time and place rarely explored in series television.
Read More »Interview with Catherine Astolfo, Author of ‘Sweet Karoline’
"I am fascinated by evil, by the psychopathology that leads people to harm others."
Read More »Book Review: ‘Food in Medieval England: Diet and Nutrition’, edited by C.N. Wollgar, D. Serjeantson and T. Waldron
Sixteenth-century Cornish ale, made from oats, was said to be "lyke wash as pygges had wrestled dryn".
Read More »Book Review: ‘The President And The Provocateur’ by Alex Cox
Charting more than reasonable doubts when it comes to the official versions surround the assassinations of Kennedy and Oswald.
Read More »FreeRice and the Korean War
The age of the Internet has created new ways to be a humanitarian hero every day. FreeRice is one.
Read More »Book Review: ‘How The Light Is Spent’ by Gail Sidonie Sobat
This is history as it should be, told through the pen of a poet with an eye for the important details of life.
Read More »Book Review: The Gordonston Ladies Dog Walking Club – by Duncan Whitehead
A maelstrom of emotion hidden in small town America.
Read More »Book Review: The Barbed Crown – by William Dietrich
What would have been the outcome had Napoleon understood the the lengths the British would go to, in order to come out on top?
Read More »Book Review: Confronting the Classics: A Provocative Tour of What is Happening Now in the Classics by Mary Beard
A fine collection of essays that started life as book reviews.
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