bookshelves: dip-in-now-and-again, ancient-history, skoolzy-stuff, history, ttc, winter-20122013, roman-civilisation, slaves, under-50-ratings, spring-2014, autumn-2015, nonfic-nov-2015, nonfiction, tbr-busting-2015

36 half hour lectures.

4. The Roman Way of War
5. Celtic Europe and the Mediterranean World
6. The conquest of Casalpine Gaul
7. Romans and Carthaginians in Spain
8. The Roman Conquest of Spain
9. The Genesis of Roman Spain
10. Jugurtha and the Nomadic Threat



Constantine, Algeria

11. Marius and the Northern Barbarians



12. Rome's Rivals in the East
13. The Price of Empire
14. Julius Ceasar and the Conquest of Gaul
15. Early Germanic Europe
16. The Nomads of Eastern Europe
17. Arsacid Parthia
18. The Augustin Principate and Imperialism
19. The Roman Imperial Army

Whipped through these last few lectures, so am now on a mirroring timeline with Trajan re Portus.




4* The Vikings (Great Courses, #3910)
TR Secrets of Sleep Science: From Dreams to Disorders
TR Turning Points in Modern Times: Essays on German and European History
4* Myth in Human History (Great Courses, #2332)
3* History of Russia: From Peter the Great to Gorbachev (Great Courses, #8380)
TR Classic Novels: Meeting the Challenge of Great Literature (Great Courses, #2310)
4* Rethinking Our Past: Recognizing Facts, Fictions, And Lies In American History
OH A History of England from the Tudors to the Stuarts (Great Courses, #8470)

 

In readiness for my course on Scottish Independence from Edinburgh university I'm taking notes: the opening round was about filthy lucre and needless to say it was heated AND the live streaming from STV failed.

 

 

Scottish independence advocates are “deluding” themselves if they believe that the country would be allowed to remain in a currency union with the UK whilst controlling its own financial affairs, one of Europe’s major banks has said.