Oliver Clarke

I once got a shouted ‘whatthefuckyuhthinkyerdoin?’ From an upstairs window of a house. ‘Your house got bombed on the 27th April 1942, I’m recording the evidence.’ ‘Oh, did it? blimey, that didn’t come up in the survey.’

the final cultural victory of these guys

Excellent correction already at the bottom "This article was updated on Feb. 13 to amend the nature of one relationship."

Don't know if you've come across this interview, but it may help (archive.org/details/know...)

very easy to use, have done so at various points in the past when bringing my car to Oxford and not needed it close to home. Right now the bus is free as well with the new congestion charge.

I hadn't thought about this in years.

Thankless task, really, especially as the fandom snowballed. Lucky really that he was a scholar himself and could see the work to be done in the right way.

YouTube video by FinalZephyr Indohyus, my brother

Need the dramatization of this along the lines of youtu.be/oaxNhgVVYh4?...

hey man. me and a few of the guys were thinking about attempting the transition from seasonal foraging to early sedentary city-state status later if you're down ?

The final stage of the combined boss after you have separately defeated Victoria and Albert

Yes, it's always appreciated to see job ads on the timeline: it has certainly brought jobs onto my radar that I might have missed otherwise (especially beyond the UK).

But, and this is the most important thing (as you well know), is that he wrote his fanfiction after decades of writing of poetry and learning the craft etc. You get to steal Hercules' club only after plenty of practice.

"You can ask these questions once you have read and watched a dozen other genres and filmmakers"

"My whole career is dedicated to justice [for 18th and 19th century PMs]"

I like the idea of building an entire political career, wokling for decades, simply to ensure that there are statues of both Pitts by the time one retires.

I always suspected that Rilke was a chaos agent

I'm not saying that the layout is broken on a basic level, but the fact that after literally a decade of operation the average user finds it confusing/ends up going the wrong way suggests that the wayfinding is not up to scratch.

My favourite bit of NS is that there are people who tell you that if you learn this one simple trick you can easily navigate it (if changing, go up at the B end so you don't have to go through the gates) and my only response is "why is your key national interchange reliant on one simple trick"?

I might adopt a rigorously strict pronunciation of the two in English now.

Two-leg competition, I hope. To ensure fairness the pies you make are randomly reallocated

Ha, sorry to deliver a mini-tirade. Comes from teaching both the Thucydides-based fifth century paper, and the Athenian Democracy paper, this year

Indeed, there are good arguments to be made that what we see is a version of Ath. Dem. and its institutions spreading quite impressively in the 4th and 3rd centuries to the cities of the wider Greek world ("the Great Convergence" of @nakhthor.bsky.social )

And even in the Hellenistic period, there are substantial periods where the democracy is quite clearly functional (to compress an extremely complex and debated set of affairs into one post)

Yeah, this is, bluntly, a mad take. One, the democracy is restored in full in 410 after the first oligarchic revolution and then again in 403 after the fall of the Thirty. Indeed the 403-322 period is in many ways the peak, institutionally, of Ath. Dem.

? What date are you saying for the end of Athenian Democracy?

I am, sadly, professionally required to sigh at the abuse of that Thuc. quote.

Coinage and a Conference in the City of World's Desire: Istanbul, Part 1 open.substack.com/pub/astrocla...

(Egypt, as always a partial exception, but is Egypt Normal? - the greatest debate in the history of journals, stopped by an editor after 12,239 pages of heated debate)

Yeah, the whole textiles chain is an enormous part of the economy, but quantifying where and on what scale different parts of the Greco-Roman world were the centres is a pain, since the evidence is almost all either broadstrokes literary stuff, or scanty archaeology

"Finn Conway MA (Oxon) MC, 1898-1916, colourized picture, taken during his pioneering tour of the Ionian cities in 1912, of which only his notes were published in 1920. Missing, presumed dead, during the Battle of Bazentin, 16th July 1916, while leading his men of the 1st Battalion of the Glosters"