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A Tumult at the Other End of Town
A Tumult at the Other End of Town
In Restoration London uneasy relationship between licentiousness and Puritanism was accompanied by the threat of violence. At Easter 1668…
Mike Noble
Oct 8
The Buttonhole Wormhole
The Buttonhole Wormhole
A Norwegian student wore a hidden camera as he walked the streets of 1890s Oslo. 130 years on, we can still look into the eyes of the…
Mike Noble
Oct 1
In the Month of Simanu an Eclipse of the Sun Took Place
In the Month of Simanu an Eclipse of the Sun Took Place
We have a solid grasp of events close to us in time, but for the worlds of the distant past or far future, we need some help from the…
Mike Noble
Sep 24
Travelling Through Antique Lands
Travelling Through Antique Lands
Today we encounter the ancient world through ruins and fragments, but antiquity had its own relics to examine, and its own archaeologists…
Mike Noble
Sep 17
The Paleogene Will Begin on Thursday
The Paleogene Will Begin on Thursday
The Chicxulub impact event is perhaps too large for us to truly imagine, but it happened at the scale of a single day.
Mike Noble
Sep 10
Back to the Futurology
Back to the Futurology
The end of the nineteenth century saw a flourishing of predictions for the future. A future that has since become the past. What do these…
Mike Noble
Sep 3
The Roots of a Radical
The Roots of a Radical
When George Eliot looked at the reforming spirit of the 1860s, it reminded her of an episode from her childhood and the violence of an…
Mike Noble
Aug 27
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