Month: September 2010

 

Eighteenth Century Britain was one of the main cauldrons in which the ideas of the Enlightenment were bubbling, and Gibbon was one of its leading figures.  The enlightened view of the world that was being pioneered then is still with us, shaping how we think to this very day.

Animal Farm was one of the earliest animations of a novel.

Disney it isn’t.

I have been beavering away on this project and I have a couple more Gibbon's lined up now.  I haven't posted them yet because I want to catch up on…

Would Stonehenge survive a thermonuclear attack? The intense heat of a direct hit would certainly be hot enough to melt solid rock, but Salisbury Plain is not a key military…