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**Indo-European Interfaces: Integrating Linguistics, Mythology and Archaeology**

"_With this book, we want to apply a multidisciplinary approach that combines historical linguistics, archaeology, and comparative religion in order to improve our understanding of the early speakers of Indo-European._"

Larsson, J., Olander, T. and Jørgensen, A.R., 2024. Indo-European Interfaces: Integrating Linguistics, Mythology and Archaeology. Stockholm: Stockholm University Press. DOI: doi.org/10.16993/bcn

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**The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae**

"_200 years after the Persian Wars, Greece faced another massive assault. This time, the threat came not from the east but from a Celtic invasion._"

Middleton, Neil. "The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae" TheCollector.com, thecollector.com/celtic-invasi (accessed July 2, 2024).

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**Discovering the North: Francesco Negri’s and Giuseppe Acerbi’s journeys to Norway in the 17th and 18th centuries**

"_Their narratives provide valuable insights into the cultural and societal landscape of the North during their time, illuminating a region largely undiscovered by other European travellers. By documenting their experiences and observations, Negri and Acerbi contribute to a broader understanding of Northern Europe, challenging prevailing narratives._"

Miscali, M. (2024) ‘Discovering the North: Francesco Negri’s and Giuseppe Acerbi’s journeys to Norway in the 17th and 18th centuries’, Scandinavian Journal of History, pp. 1–25. doi: doi.org/10.1080/03468755.2024..

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**2,000 years of German history in 200 pages**

"_Before the dawn of the Common Era two thousand years ago, Julius Caesar gave the land its name, Germania. But it was nineteen hundred years before the land became a country. That happened only in 1871 when the ruthless and brilliant Prussian Chancellor Otto von Bismarck united twenty-five independent kingdoms, grand duchies, duchies, principalities, and free cities in a new German Empire._"

malwarwickonbooks.com/german-h

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**Anglo-Saxons may have fought in northern Syrian wars, say experts**

"_These finds put the Anglo-Saxon princes and their followers centre-stage in one of the last great wars of late antiquity. It takes them out of insular England into the plains of Syria and Iraq in a world of conflict and competition between the Byzantines and the Sasanians and gave those Anglo-Saxons literally a taste for something much more global than they probably could have imagined._"

theguardian.com/science/articl

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**Independence Day Reading List 2024**

"_Our Independence Day Reading List highlights the important role of Indigenous Peoples in the evolution of modern America, forgotten stories from America’s past, and revelatory biographies of the country’s founders._"

yalebooks.yale.edu/2024/07/04/

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**Every meteorite we saw falling down to earth**

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<strong>Five common English words we don’t know the origins of – including ‘boy’ and ‘dog’</strong>

"_The English lexicon includes some terms known as “proper words”, which today apparently exist only in English. Cognates for them cannot be found in any other language._

_These are very simple and common words but being unique, we cannot apply the comparative method to them and therefore cannot reconstruct their origins._"

theconversation.com/five-commo

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**Evidence of Large Vessels and Sail in Bronze Age Scandinavia**

"_This study suggests that the Bronze Age boat imagery in southern Scandinavia depicts plank-built vessels of a type that belonged to the same boatbuilding tradition as the c. 350 BC Hjortspring boat. More importantly, aspects of this boat imagery can be directly related to the contemporary ship-settings, suggesting use of sail and the existence of boats that from stem to stem (excluding horn projections) might have been in the region of up 20–30 metres or perhaps even larger._"

Bengtsson, B., Artursson, M. and Wehlin, J. (2024) ‘Evidence of Large Vessels and Sail in Bronze Age Scandinavia’, Norwegian Archaeological Review, pp. 1–26. doi: doi.org/10.1080/00293652.2024..

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<strong>What is Fascism and Where does it Come From?</strong>

"_Fascism prospered from a paralysis of the state’s capacity for dispatching its key organizing functions, whether in the economy or for the larger tasks of keeping cohesion in society. At the worst points of the crisis, that paralysis encompassed the entire institutional machinery of politics, including the parliamentary and party-political frameworks of representation._"

Geoff Eley, What is Fascism and Where does it Come From?, History Workshop Journal, Volume 91, Issue 1, Spring 2021, Pages 1–28, doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbab003

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<strong>Great science, uncomfortable history: Sir Gustav Nossal and the long tail of eugenics </strong>

"_Dhoombak Goobgoowana has revealed the extensive influence of Nazi apologists, racists and massacre perpetrators in the history of the university – not referring to Nossal. It outlines how eugenic ideas about white superiority denigrated First Nations people, as well as non-white immigrants._"

theguardian.com/science/articl

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<strong>World's First Mobile Phone?</strong>

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<strong>The return of long-lost Sumero-Akkadian heritage and modern disorders: rediscovering Gilgamesh, Victorian tension, and aftermath</strong>

"_The rediscovery of the Mesopotamian epic complicated centuries-old and on-going debates about time and history: The major archaeologists of the period utilized it to return the field to its earliest arguments and better understand what time and history meant at the end of the nineteenth century, the Historians, Hebraists, and Biblicists began to question the originality of the Bible and verify its reliability, and figures specialized in literature and/or the arts got access to the primary sources of prehistory to update existing literature or create new fictional arts._"

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<strong>Olmsted, The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler</strong>

"_Kathryn Olmsted’s work provides a timely and incisive analysis of four American and two British press lords, united in their isolationism, appeasement towards fascism, and proclivity to use their media apparatus and larger-than-life personalities to forcefully promote their politics._"

journalism-history.org/2023/05

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<strong>A Brief History of English Numeracy</strong>

"_The people of late medieval and early modern England were almost universally numerate. Is our ability to count the thing that makes us human?_"

historytoday.com/archive/histo

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<strong>In Need of a New Myth</strong>

"_Where do national myths originate? They do not emerge by happenstance. Rather their creation and spread are an exercise of power. Influential historical actors, from antebellum slaveholders to the moguls of Hollywood and those Slotkin calls the ‘political classes’, have attempted to develop and disseminate broadly acceptable myths to serve their own interests._"

lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n13/er

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<strong>Episode 300 – The 10 Greatest Byzantine Emperors</strong>

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<strong>Royal Society exhibition revives 18th-century debate about shape of the Earth</strong>

"_Some members of the French Academy of Sciences interpreted measurements taken in Paris by scientists including Jacques Cassini as supporting the idea that the Earth was elongated at the poles, resembling a lemon or a melon._

_By contrast, Isaac Newton had proposed that the centrifugal force caused by the Earth’s rotation would result in the planet being flattened at its poles, thus having a similar shape to an orange._"

theguardian.com/science/articl

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<strong>5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About</strong>

"_Gerardus Mercator is perhaps well-known for all the wrong reasons. His last name evokes the infamous Mercator projection, which depicts the world in a distorted way. The projection has been criticized for putting Europe at the center of the world and favoring the northern hemisphere by making countries there appear bigger than they are in reality._"

Perpuli, Francisco. "5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About" TheCollector.com, thecollector.com/famous-cartog (accessed Jun 24, 2024).

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<strong>The Ghosts of Max Weber in the Economic History of Preindustrial Europe</strong>

"_References to Weber in the literature on preindustrial Europe published by economists during the last fifty years show that the more economists have rehabilitated culture as an autonomous force of economic change, the more they have heralded Weber as a precursor of their endeavors. The casting of Weber in such terms, moreover, has gone hand in hand with a decline, rather than an increase, in conversations between economists, sociologists, historians, and other humanists and social scientists interested in the role of culture in the formation of modern economic life._"

Trivellato, Francesca. "The Ghosts of Max Weber in the Economic History of Preindustrial Europe." Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics 4, no. 2 (2023): 332-376. doi.org/10.1353/cap.2023.a9176.

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