Stories by benbreen

Post-postal: What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?

What Makes Good Historical Fiction?

The Roman Catholic War on Wigs

Deep learning-based detection of qanat water systems using spy satellite imagery

On 17th century "cocaine"

Age of Invention: The Coal Conquest

Bronze Age cheese reveals human-Lactobacillus interactions over history

Yasuke

The User Manual for the Oldest Surviving Computer in the World (2020)

Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri

Aliens and the Enlightenment

How to make 3k-year-old beer

Excuse this ghastly handwriting: When letter writers become self-conscious

Sure and Certain Methods of Attaining a Long and Healthful Life (1722 Edition)

Persian Silver in Early Medieval Scotland

Caftan (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Forensic toxicology backdates the use of coca plant in Europe to the early 1600s

Early Scenes: Remembering a Childhood in the South Bronx

'The Cheese and the Worms': Carlo Ginzburg Launches Microhistory

King John's Lost Treasure

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