Sunday, 26 January 2014

Encounters with a Lower Power: The Prehistoric Flint Mines of Norfolk

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Close to Thetford, in Norfolk, is a heathland surrounded by pine woods. From a distance, the heath seems un-remarkable: it is covered, depen...
Sunday, 19 January 2014

Jews and Christians in 1st Century Rome

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By the middle of the 1st Century AD, Rome was at the centre of an empire that encompassed the whole of the Mediterranean world, extending no...
Saturday, 11 January 2014

The "First Age of Sail" Revisited - Long Distance Sea Voyaging in European Prehistory

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In September last year ( http://mark-patton.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/the-first-age-of-sail.html ), I considered the evidence for long-distance...
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Monday, 6 January 2014

The Polarities of Historical Fiction: Choices that Define a Genre

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In an earlier blog-post (29th July 2013), I took issue with the American academic, Rachel Teukolsky, and her insistence that "historica...
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Monday, 30 December 2013

Great Books of 2013: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century

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Fourteen years into the 21st Century, it seems that some of the most interesting new work in historical fiction is concerned to make sense o...
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Thursday, 26 December 2013

Great Books of 2013: The Struggle for Freedom in Historical Perspective

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In the year in which the world said goodbye to the great icon of the struggle for freedom in the modern age, it seems appropriate to turn to...
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Sunday, 22 December 2013

Gifts and Greetings for Saturnalia

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As promised, here are some of the specific gifts that were offered for Saturnalia, together with the greetings that accompanied them. They a...