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There’s a thread going round promoting visits to Morocco’s Roman ruins. Hardly surprising, Syria is out of bounds, Libya inaccessible, Tunisia possible, and Algeria not so, meaning that the Roman history geek wanting some warm climate ruins to visit in … Continue reading →

At the start of February we went down to Tathra on the south coast for a few days and then on to Harrietville in Victoria for a couple of days with the intention of doing some walking, which in fact … Continue reading →

A few days ago I came across an article in the Irish Times about how a British researcher has argued that the wall of Genghis Khan is part of the Great Wall of China assemblage. Fair enough. Unfortunately some people … Continue reading →

Someone is claiming that some ancient greek seafarers made it to New Zealand. Well it’s possible. Extremely unlikely but possible. We know that there were Roman settlements in India – not formal settlements but groups of merchants clustered together trading … Continue reading →

From an internal email (names etc removed): Dear %%%%%%%%%% This problem was created by  incorrect network configuration inside the Dodo ISP network. Essentially Dodo received the global Internet table from Telstra then proceeded to advertise this to OPTUS. Since our … Continue reading →

Letter writing and the stamp of history | Kathryn Hughes http://gu.com/p/35jfx Postal services are dying. Few if anyone sends letters or bills by post, and have you tried to buy adsend a postcard recently? What’s not been discussed is the … Continue reading →

I was surfing the web checking out cheap 7 inch tablets when I happened across this Wholesale – Macbook Air 13.3 N450 Laptops Notebook Computer 1.67G CPU 1GB DDR2 160GB XP Systerm sample | DHgate.com. Of course it’s not a … Continue reading →

The first typewriters were in the main women, who were paid to operate the fiendish machine and act as some sort of amanuesis, as the great man dictated his thoughts. This of course had all sorts of implications for society, … Continue reading →

Bruthen Post Office, a photo by moncur_d on Flickr. Wonderful example of mid twentieth century official architecture looking as if it had been transported from the English Home Counties to somewhere in the middle of Gippsland in Victoria …

As part of the ‘not just travel writers’ strand I was reading Darren Wershler-Henry’s history of typewriters over the weekend and he makes the point that in Dracula – written in 1897 – the protagonists make extensive use of typewriters … Continue reading →