Collections: Bread, How Did They Make It? Part IV: Markets, Merchants and the...
Thanks to our helpful volunteer narrator, this entire post series is now also available in audio format! As the fourth and final part (I, II, III) of our look at the basic structure of food production...
View ArticleCollections: Iron, How Did They Make It, Addendum: Crucible Steel and Cast Iron
This week, as an addendum to our four(and a half)-part (I, II, III, IVa, IVb) look at pre-modern iron and steel production, we're going to look at two alternative regional processes, where they fit...
View ArticleCollections: Clothing, How Did They Make it? Part IVb: Cloth Money
This post is also available in audio form, thanks to the efforts of our volunteer narrator. This is the second half of the fourth part of our four part (I, II, III, IVa, IVb) look at the production of...
View ArticleCollections: Teaching Paradox, Europa Universalis IV, Part III: Europa...
This is the third part of our series (I, II, III, IV) examining the historical assumptions of Paradox Interactive’s grand strategy computer game set in the early modern period, Europa Universalis IV...
View ArticleCollections: Rome: Decline and Fall? Part III: Things
This is the third and final part (I, II, III) of our series tackling the complicated and still debated question of 'how bad was the fall of Rome (in the West)?' In our first part, we looked at the...
View ArticleFireside Friday, January 12, 2024
Fireside this week! The semester has started up in earnest and I am pushing hard to try to finish a draft of something I have promised by the end of the month (so this may not be the only Fireside this...
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