War Classics – Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War
Graham Goodlad recalls one of the great works of military history.
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Gloucestershire
The Cotswolds these days have a reputation as a playground of the rich and famous. The Roman occupation of this area certainly had its social high society too.
Access & Navigating Nature
Much that is done in the name of access is admirable: lectures are now broadcast to the world; collections can be searched online; journals and academic papers can be read free of charge
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Christopher Catling, Contributing Editor for CA, delves into the eccentricities of the heritage world.
Stone tools, space dust, and sacramental ash
Hiding in plain sight Look carefully at Renaissance paintings and you will see all sorts of fascinating cultural details, from the most obvious – the clothing that was fashionable at the time
What the emissary saw
In 1296, the Chinese Emperor Temür Khan despatched a diplomatic mission to Angkor. Zhou Daguan was a member, arriving in August 1296 and leaving the following July. On his return, he wrote
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Christopher Catling, Contributing Editor for CA, delves into the eccentricities of the heritage world.
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Christopher Catling, Contributing Editor for CA, delves into the eccentricities of the heritage world.
Revisiting research and challenging conclusions
We all enjoy stories about new discoveries, and it is these that tend to grab the news headlines, but there is another kind of story that gets far less coverage: those that
Affluent hunters
Ever since the redoubtable Madeleine Colani explored the wonderful karst country of Hoa Binh Province, west of Hanoi in northern Vietnam, a century ago, the hunter-gatherers of Southeast Asia have received rather
War Classics – Thermopylae: The Battle for the West
Fred Chiaventone recalls one of the great works of military history
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Christopher Catling, Contributing Editor for CA, delves into the eccentricities of the heritage world.
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Christopher Catling, Contributing Editor for CA, delves into the eccentricities of the heritage world.