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Load More...Flaming pigs always seem a thing of pure historical fiction. We ended up checking the evidence for #BadAncient, and were delighted that @WingedBookWyrm wrote it up for us (rating: half true):
https://t.co/j6nAbySCHY https://t.co/T2MPPmHb4IAdrienne Mayor@amayorFlaming pigs always seem a thing of pure historical fiction. We ended up checking the evidence for #BadAncient, and were delighted that @WingedBookWyrm wrote it up for us (rating: half true):
https://t.co/j6nAbySCHY@alice_radley Proud to say it was my 2003 book #GreekFirePoisonArrows
on ancient biological warfare
that brought flaming war-pigs to pop culture
and war gamers eg Total War
@ProfMakins @hypsipyle 2
Category Archives: Family History
What’s in a Name?
Book being read: A. K. Bennison, The Great Caliphs: The Golden Age of the ‘Abbasid Empire, (2011) On the 15th of July, at 4.15 in the morning one of the most important things to happen in a person’s life, happened … Continue reading
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Competition in Irony
Competition time! As some of you may know, I work at Shakespeare’s Globe to fund my PhD. In said Globe, there is a poster written by Bernard Levin called ‘Quoting Shakespeare’, all about the impact of Shakespeare on the English … Continue reading
A Family Historian’s Dream
Like real people, Historians are all different. They all have different areas of interest, different time periods and different things they like about history. For me, I study Ancient History mainly (for which there is minimal evidence) and I specialise … Continue reading
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First World War Scotland
The University of Edinburgh has a virtual history archive project that is bringing together and making available lots of information about different areas on Scottish life during the First World War. You can find it at http://www.edinburghs-war.ed.ac.uk/ It is definitely … Continue reading
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Tagged Blog, Family History, First World War, Historian, History Source, Nottingham University, Owen Rees, PhD, Scottish History, UCL
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