History nerd. IC spare part. Currently researching escaping POWs and SOE in occupied Crete. And the Ancient and Medieval world. And historical food. And..
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1/ The use of writing in the Minoan and Mycenaean worlds reflects two entirely different sociopolitical and religious structures. Although Linear B' is an evolution of Linear A', the manner and purpose for which the two societies used these systems present profound contrasts.
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Your day will be like...
a horse, proud and happy to be free from its stall, it gallops off to pastures fresh and to a stream to bathe.
Iliad 6.506-14
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The Thanksgiving Service on the Field of Agincourt
- Edmund Blair Leighton, c. 1909
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I have a #question. If a book calls itself a #biography, & uses conversations or recollections of their subject that are not backed up by archival research or primary source evidence, is that biography still a biography, or is it fair to say it is semi fictionalised? 🤔
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I've just done a Bayeux Tapestry talk at a local primary school as part of the outreach for the fab @cirenhistory Festival. Their questions were A-MAZING. Here are some - feel free to offer your own answers...
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Today is World Champagne Day, and we're reminded of this quote from Casino Royale.
Whilst Bond is famous for his martinis, both he and Ian Fleming were partial to a glass of fizz. 007 actually drinks more Champagne in the books than he does martinis. We’ll raise a glass of ‘cheerful wine’ to that!
#WorldChampagneDay #JamesBond #IanFleming #CasinoRoyale
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Just a really perfect owl on a fragment of a classical Athenian vase now in the Metropolitan Museum to brighten up your day. Too-whit, too-whoo to you!
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Your day will be like...
the brilliance of light, brought by Zeus, flashing through the dense clouds of a mountain top to light the land.
Iliad 16.297-302
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Sometimes a Greek vase takes my breath away. This vase-painter depicts a stone statue of Heracles, his lionskin being painted encaustically by an artist with pigmented hot wax melted by an attendant on a brazier. Heracles comes to inspect, his dad Zeus and a winged Victory aloft.
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The Roman kiln is being fired again this Saturday (24th Oct) at #Vindolanda as part of a fund raising project to raise money for Breast Cancer charities, pottery will be sold and a percentage will go to this vital work #Archaeology
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In April 1944, British SOE officers and Greek resistance fighters captured General Heinrich Kreipe, the German commander on Crete, and spirited him off the island in a daring operation:
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Looking for an online lecturer or guest speaker for your next event?
I specialise in talks on the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and its training, F Section, cryptography, and espionage during the Second World War.
My presentations also explore the lives and missions of remarkable wartime agents, including Noor Inayat Khan, Denis Rake and Virginia Hall.
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There’s a brand new blog post up! All about why I still use traditional methods to sculpt miniatures.
You can find it at the link below
paulhicksminiatures.com/blog…
#paulhicksminiatures #traditionalsculpting #28miniatures #baronswar #halflings
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Missing German WW2 U-boat found 82 years on bbc.in/4jybFFO
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33 years ago today, Homer Simpson ate 64 slices of American cheese in one sitting.
#TheSimpsons episode “Rosebud” first aired October 21, 1993.
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Behind Britain’s famous victory at Trafalgar were sailors spanning six decades in age.
Thomas Wilcott, just 8 years old, serving as a third-class boy aboard HMS Neptune. At the other end of the age spectrum was John Adams, aged 68, serving aboard HMS Royal Sovereign.
#OnThisDay
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Massimiliano Sforza (1493–1530) ruled Milan from 1512 to 1515 amid the Italian Wars. After his Swiss allies fell at Marignano, he surrendered his claim to Milan to Francis I of France in exchange for a pension, spending his remaining years in exile.
