The Blog That Time Forgot

Books dealing on Scottish history were easier for me to obtain than those dealing with Irish history, so in my childhood I knew infinite...

The depiction of dinosaurs as monsters has long been a bit of a double-edged sword. On the one hand, dinosaurs-as-monsters has kept them...

Urgh. How very unrealistic . I love realism in my speculative fiction, but I am by no means beholden to it. I can enjoy realistic scien...

Let me speak first of all about her prayerfulness. In church no one was so silent and composed as she, no one so wrapt in prayer. Whilst ...

The principal of these were Constantine the Bald, son of King Culen, and Gryme, son of Kenneth, son of King Duff; and, plotting unceasin...

Earl Sigurd made himself a mighty chief;  he joined his fellowship with Thorstein the red, son of Olaf the white and Aud the deep-minded,...

While the Roman Invasion left an indelible mark on these isles, it was far from the last great assault from overseas: four centuries afte...

Good the day when Óengus took Alba, hilly Alba with its strong chiefs; he brought battle to palisaded towns, with feet, with hands,...

WHAT we are about to relate concerning the plague, which in our own time twice visited the greater part of the world, deserves, I think...

Men went to Gododdin, laughter-inciting, Bitter in battle, with blades set for war. Brief the year they were at peace. ...