One of two books I remember reading in honor of the millennium; the other was Stephen Jay Gould's Questioning the Millennium. So one look back and one look forward. The look back was fascinating. Although I know more about the history of the British isles than any place outside the US it remains imp...
As I said above, this book was quite fun to read. It was an interesting angle to use archaeological evidence and historic documentation to extrapolate an ethnography of the early English people. The division of the chapters to reflect aspect of culture based on what the common man of the day would h...
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A series of interviews with serving members of the silent service and some of their partners. Danziger interviews all levels of staff from captains to the lowly but vital cooks. Gives you a good insight of the mental strength that a man need to serve on these boats. The only tragedy of this is that ...
Quick, skimmy overview. Highlight is the smutty riddles.
I debated over the rating to give this book. On one hand, I ended up really liking it. On the other, it also turned out to not exactly be what's on the tin.I went in expecting precisely what the subtitle promise: a behind the scenes look at the Met. And I got that, sort of. Actually, the book is bas...
Pretty cool. Gives a really clear sense of what life was like for the 13th-century English, from peasants to kings.
If you like social history, I think The Year 1000 deserves to be a general reader's classic.
Spotted on Susanna's profile.Read by Derek Jacobi
Much of what we know about the first millennium comes from a book written around 1020 called The Julius Work Calendar. It is the earliest surviving example of the English daily routine, "the schedule of the earth, and the life of the spirit." The ink used to put the characters on paper is interestin...
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