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Burnley girl in 🇩🇰, PhD in early Abbasid visual language & relationship to Rome, general geek. "Stealthily whimsical". I want to live on a boat again. She/her. *All Roads Lead to Rome* out May 2025 with Aurum Press.
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EXCITING SPECIAL OFFER FROM @waterstones.bsky.social KLAXON: Until Monday, Waterstones are offering 25% off pre-orders of the UK paperback of A History of the World in 47 Borders, out in five weeks. Order online using the promo code "PREORDER25". www.waterstones.com/book/a-histo...

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Really important and moving account of state failure in this weekend's @financialtimes.com that is free to read for all here:

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I would get the history of the witch panics right before posting saccarine dross like this. going-medieval.com/2023/10/20/y...

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Simcha Gross closes our panel celebrating his recent book by offering an inside look at his revisionist goals for rethinking the role of minorities in the Sasanian Empire.

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A Brief History of Kids Today Have Too Much Freedom 🧵

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If you have GCSE/sixth formers in your lives interested in a taster day about studying with @rhulclassics.bsky.social, our next taster day on Normal People: Life and Love in the Ancient World will be on Thursday 10th July. More details, including talk titles, here:

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