Camouflaged truth
It’s not always easy to sort out fact from falsehood.
Articles Tagged with history
time and tide
Teaching complexity
Almost every subject is complicated if you go deeply enough into it. Where do you stop teaching?
New books and old
The prudent mariner
Blast from the past
History and pre-history
We ponder a very old story, and something that could have been an old story.
Push or pull?
Historical fictions
Common sense
The lateen rig
A misunderstood sail
We consider a number of mistakes connected with a particular piece of old technology.
At long intervals
Building on the floodplain
The most dangerous things are those that don’t come often enough.