Thanks for the flattering angle 🤣

Yes! Always a sign your are raising them right

Last time Reform canvassed in Denton they snuck up to our doors, pushed through a leaflet and - I kid you not - ran away as fast as possible to jump into the back of their van. They did not stop to chat.

Thanks! I really enjoyed chatting it through with @partialhistorians.bsky.social. They were one of, if not maybe *the* first interview I did about the book!

Sketches of nine places in the liminal spaces between cultures. So far it is excellent and a surprisingly fast read.

I am glad to be in good company

One day I will make a post which does not have typos in it, but today is clearly not that day!

If people want a shorter version to read through - the same author wrote up her findings for Bad Ancient:

www.badancient.com/claims/drunk...

Two excellent ancient world books that are totally different from one another.

Owen Rees’s The Far Edges of the Known World: A New History of the Ancient Past

Jane Draycott’s Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome

5 stars each. Loved them both so much.