Ernest Hemingway: A man with nine lives.
Have you ever heard of the saying ‘a cat has nine lives’? Well, picture a cat that walks effortlessly alongContinue Reading
Category: Great Writers
Nancy Marie Brown reveals some interesting truths about the Lewis Chessmen, Viking history and Margret the Adroit.
Medievalist and author, Nancy Marie Brown just might be Iceland’s hardest working advocate. She spends a part of each summerContinue Reading
History’s Willing Advocate: Q & A with The Freelance History Writer.
The revival in the interest in history has exploded over the last ten years since the advent of amazing blog/websiteContinue Reading
A conversation with Byzantine luminary Averil Cameron.
Averil Cameron is one of the leading English-speaking scholars of late antiquity and Byzantium. She has made Byzantium, in particular,Continue Reading
Five important history books of 2015.
Great empires and war have a strong presence in this list for 2015. First of all, Mary Beard’s SPQR: AContinue Reading
In the beginning there were 12 Byzantine Rulers: Lars Brownworth speaks candidly about podcasting, Justinian and history.
From humble beginnings, Lars Brownworth’s love for history would in my opinion revolutionize how we learn and in fact evenContinue Reading
Amongst the ruins of Isca Augusta you may just find Adrian Goldsworthy.
The Isca Augusta was once a Roman legionary fortress and settlement. Why is it that over the centuries historians, fromContinue Reading
History, writing, storytelling, poetry and my conversation with a good friend.
An overwhelming part of our human history is unrecorded. It is quite sketchy for us to know exactly what peopleContinue Reading
Narrative History’s Man of the Moment.
“History is taught, I believe, by one thing only- sparking interest. This means telling a good story, of which thereContinue Reading
This is Miroslav Sasek
It was about four years ago that I first came across an illustrated children’s book entitled This is New YorkContinue Reading
Rearview Mirror 