In September 2012, archaeologists started digging in a parking lot in Leicester, England. On their first day of work, they found a skeleton. The bones belonged to a man in his thirties who had died violently — a large bladed weapon had struck the back of his skull. He had been buried in a simple […]
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The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey: On Richard III, Tudor Propaganda, and How History Gets Written
2026-03-29 · by · Leave a Comment
Book Review | The Field of Blood by Joanne Freeman
2026-03-23 · by ·
The elevator pitch for this book is easy: it is all about the violence in Congress during the decades leading up to the Civil War—a period marked by intense turmoil. Through Benjamin Brown French’s eleven volumes of diary entries, Joanne Freeman vividly brings to life a chapter of history I was previously unfamiliar with, and […]
