Category: History
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Channel 4 Cancels Time Team
[I]n last week\’s edition of Radio Times (March 23rd-29th), I was extremely saddened to read that Channel 4 has scrapped their excellent and popular archaeology series, Time Team, which has graced UK television screens for the past twenty years. As a big fan of archaeology and history, this news has come as a huge disappointment…
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Reading History: The Invention That Changed the World by Robert Buderi
[I]\’ve always been fascinated by history, and in my other (non-SF geek) life I\’m actually an historian by profession (I used to be a history teacher, believe it or not). So, for a change, I\’m going to recommend not an SF book, but this really fascinating technological history book that I picked up a few…