It's More Fun to Be Jack of All Trades than Master of One
Reviews & recaps of media I've consumed
This is an index and summary of the things I’ve talked about over the last month. Links for multi-post subjects go to the first post (even if it’s before this month), you can follow the internal navigation links from there.
Ancient Egypt Transformed: The Middle Kingdom – exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Total: 1
“Howard Carter: An Alternative View of the Man Through His Art” Lee Young – talk at the July EEG Meeting.
Total: 1
This is an index and summary of the things I’ve talked about over the last month. Links for multi-post subjects go to the first post (even if it’s before this month), you can follow the internal navigation links from there.
“The Burning Stone” Kate Elliott. Epic fantasy set in an analogue of medieval Europe, part of the Crown of Stars series. New.
Total: 1
“The Middle East: The Cradle of Civilisation Revealed” Stephen Bourke. Part of the Thames & Hudson Ancient Civilisations series.
Total: 1
Celts: Art and Identity – an exhibition at the British Museum about historical Celts and modern Celtic identity.
Total: 1
P v NP – In Our Time episode about P v NP problems.
Total: 1
“Seeking Senenmut: Statues, Status and Scandal” Campbell Price – talk at the June meeting of the Essex Egyptology Group.
Total: 1
This is an index and summary of the things I’ve talked about over the last month. Links for multi-post subjects go to the first post (even if it’s before this month), you can follow the internal navigation links from there.
The Empire of Mali – In Our Time episode about this African empire which flourish in the mid-2nd Millennium CE.
Total: 1
“Historical Egypt in Photographs” Marcel Maessen – talk at the May EEG meeting.
Total: 1
This is an index and summary of the things I’ve talked about over the last month. Links for multi-post subjects go to the first post (even if it’s before this month), you can follow the internal navigation links from there.
“The Middle East: The Cradle of Civilisation Revealed” Stephen Bourke. Part of the Thames & Hudson Ancient Civilisations series.
Total: 1
Holbein at the Tudor Court – In Our Time episode about the court painter of Henry VIII’s court.
Total: 1
“The Mechanisms and Practice of Egyptian Tomb Robbery: A View from Ancient Thebes” Nigel Strudwick – talk at the April meeting of the EEG.
Total: 1
A Week in New York, October 2015.
Total: 1
This is an index and summary of the things I’ve talked about over the last month. Links for multi-post subjects go to the first post (even if it’s before this month), you can follow the internal navigation links from there.
“Darkover Landfall” Marion Zimmer Bradley. Part of the Darkover series, a combination of space colonisation, lost colonies and pyschic powers. Part of Read All the Fiction, boxed up.
“Stormqueen!” Marion Zimmer Bradley. Part of the Darkover series, a combination of space colonisation, lost colonies and pyschic powers. Part of Read All the Fiction, boxed up.
“Hawkmistress!” Marion Zimmer Bradley. Part of the Darkover series, a combination of space colonisation, lost colonies and pyschic powers. Part of Read All the Fiction, boxed up.
“Prince of Dogs” Kate Elliott. Epic fantasy set in an analogue of medieval Europe, part of the Crown of Stars series. New.
Total: 4
“The Middle East: The Cradle of Civilisation Revealed” Stephen Bourke. Part of the Thames & Hudson Ancient Civilisations series.
Total: 1
Akhenaten. In Our Time episode from 2009 about Akhenaten and his religious and political changes to Ancient Egypt.
The Etruscan Civilisation. In Our Time episode about the Etruscans who were the dominant culture in (modern-day) Tuscany for 8 centuries from around 800 BCE.
Perpetual Motion – In Our Time episode about perpetual motion machines and why they’re impossible.
The Roman Republic – In Our Time episode from 2004 covering the broad sweep of the history of the Roman Republic.
Total: 4
“Living in a Liminal Zone: The ‘Town’ of Queen Khentkawes at Giza” Ana Tavares – talk at the March EEG Meeting.
Total: 1
This is an index and summary of the things I’ve talked about over the last month. Links for multi-post subjects go to the first post (even if it’s before this month), you can follow the internal navigation links from there.
“King’s Dragon” Kate Elliott. Epic fantasy set in an analogue of medieval Europe, part of the Crown of Stars series. New.
Total: 1
“The Middle East: The Cradle of Civilisation Revealed” Stephen Bourke. Part of the Thames & Hudson Ancient Civilisations series.
Total: 1
Magna Carta: Law, Liberty, Legacy – exhibition at the British Library to mark the 800th anniversary of the original issuing of Magna Carta by King John.
Painting Paradise: The Art of the Garden – exhibition in The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace. Representations of gardens through history.
Total: 2
Aesop. In Our Time episode about both Aesop’s fables and whether or not the man himself existed.
The Augustan Age. In Our Time episode about the reign of Augustus as Emperor of Rome.
Extremophiles. In Our Time episode about extremophiles and what they till us about the search for extraterrestrial life.
Frederick the Great – In Our Time episode about his life.
Total: 4
“At the Gate of the Ancestors: Saint Cults and the Politics of the Past at Abydos” Janet Richards – the 2015 Sackler Lecture, given at the British Museum.
“The Sacred Site of ‘Quesna’: Multi-disciplinary Investigations and Analyses in the Cemetery and Falcon Necropolis” Joanne Rowland – talk at the February meeting of the Essex Egyptology Group.
Total: 2
This is an index and summary of the things I’ve talked about over the last month. Links for multi-post subjects go to the first post (even if it’s before this month), you can follow the internal navigation links from there.
“Reflections on the Dendara Zodiac: Addressing the What, When and Why” Rosalind Park – talk at the December EEG meeting.
Total: 1
This is an index and summary of the things I’ve talked about over the last month. Links for multi-post subjects go to the first post (even if it’s before this month), you can follow the internal navigation links from there.
“The Middle East: The Cradle of Civilisation Revealed” Stephen Bourke. Part of the Thames & Hudson Ancient Civilisations series.
Total: 1
Prester John – In Our Time episode about this mythical Eastern Christian King.
The Science of Glass – In Our Time episode about glassmaking, both the science of it and the history.
Total: 2
“New Light on the Narmer Palette with Advanced Digital Imaging” Kathryn E. Piquette – talk at the November EEG meeting.
Total: 1
Egypt Holiday 2014: Site at el Kab.
Total: 2
This is an index and summary of the things I’ve talked about over the last month. Links for multi-post subjects go to the first post (even if it’s before this month), you can follow the internal navigation links from there.
Josephus – In Our Time episode about the 1st Century AD Jewish Roman historian Josephus.
Total: 1
“Understanding Egypt: Language, Layers and Meaning in the Nile Valley” Carl Graves – October EEG meeting talk.
Total: 1
Total: 1
Armada: 12 Days to Save England – series about the Spanish Armada presented by Dan Snow.
Total: 1
Egypt Holiday 2014: Deir el Bahri.
Total: 1
This is an index and summary of the things I’ve talked about over the last month. Links for multi-post subjects go to the first post (even if it’s before this month), you can follow the internal navigation links from there.
The Lancashire Cotton Famine – In Our Time episode about the effect that the US Civil War had on the cotton industry in Lancashire.
Total: 1
“Rescuing History: ARCE Recording Sheikh Abd el-Gurneh” Andrew Bednarski – September EEG meeting talk.
Total: 1
Doctor Who: The Magician’s Apprentice.
Doctor Who: The Witch’s Familiar.
Total: 2
The Greatest Knight: William the Marshal – programme presented by Thomas Ashbridge about the life & times of William the Marshal.
Total: 1
Egypt Holiday 2014: Deir el Medina.
Egypt Holiday 2014: Medinet Habu.
Total: 2