Ancient cities — the kind we know of more through archaeology than written history — tend to have a bunch of features that set them apart from smaller, less ambitious settlements. Most of these are st...
10.13.2026 Bigthink.com
Although Hilaire Belloc and J. R. R. Tolkien had much in common, not least of which was their shared and impassioned Catholicism, it is intriguing that they should differ so profoundly on the importan...
10.14.2026 Theimaginativeconservative.org
Y ou’re one of the judges of this year’s Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize . Before we get to the books that have been shortlisted, can you tell us a bit about your qualifications as an adventurer?...
10.18.2026 Fivebooks.com
Between war and plague and famine, the 14th century was surely the grimmest on record. Yet towards its end, when history books tend to deal mainly in the deeds of kings, archbishops, and other bigwigs...
10.17.2026 Unherd.com