1-2 times a month, I am going to be posting a round up of all of the historical news happening in the world! I will try my hardest to make sure that they are interesting to the general public, and not only specialist historians with […]

Winnipeg has a lot to do, but not *that* much and when you’ve lived here for 20+ years, you’ve usually done most of it. The Canadian Museum for Human Rights opened in fall 2014, and is quickly becoming known for worldwide. It examines many issues […]

I was first introduced to Lucy Worsley in March 2013 when, after visiting Kensington Palace, I was looking for books on the Georgian kings and came across her Courtiers (which I wholly recommend to everyone). After visiting Hampton Court Palace with M in July 2013, I […]

As a historian of early medieval Ireland, I spend a lot of my time with dead people. Bishops, monks, kings, warriors. Factor in my love of royal biographies, and that’s a whole whackload more of dead people. Until science advances or magic makes a solid comeback, I will just keep reading books about them.

People I want to meet when time travel becomes a thing:

Chapter 2, “The Island and the World: Irish Responses to Literacy c. 600-850″ covers the progression/development of both Latin and Old Irish texts- both on the island and on the Continent. **By texts, I mean written texts.** It is important to note that this period sees […]