Month: November 2010

I promised a fuller review of this paper at the beginning of the month when I just pulled out the currency data (See http://historybooksreview.blogspot.com/2010/11/quantitative-easing-roman-way.html). Did Rome fall because it was…

Peter Hennessy is having an exciting year.  Not only has one of  his books been reviewed here on the History Books Review, yesterday he also became a member of the…

So the senate was now resolved to do battle with the upstart Maximin.  Everyone's hopes were invested in the Gordians, who they felt represented the best of the traditions of…

Empress Theodora in a Byzantine Mosaic This series ran on UK television a couple of years ago.  The photography is truly stunning.  I am going to be reminding myself with…

When someone finds a Roman coin in a field, they often imagine that they have stumbled across something of great value.  It is after all old, rare and made of…

If you want to follow this series it starts with the reign of the first Roman emperor Augustus.  The previous episode is covers the reign of Alexander Severus the last…

I am very grateful to the lay preachers at Frenchgate Chapel in the nineteen sixties for being just about the worst advocates for their religion I can imagine.  They not…