Stories by benbreen

Reconstructing England’s Intoxicants Trade, 1580-1740

'Gerbils replace rats' as main cause of Black Death

Why Dowries? (2002) [pdf]

Netherlandish Proverbs (1559)

How an American sergeant’s journey through Russia inspired historical fiction

Australia's Temple of Weird

Mummies and the Usefulness of Dead Bodies

Cracking Codes in Medieval Books

Language change: slowly does it

3D printing produces a perfect replica of a sixth-century sword

The Boys Who Loved Birds: After the Iron Curtain

Boomtown, USA: An Historical Look at Fracking

Too Many Worlds

Our Lost Cousins, the Neanderthals

What's Wrong with Public Intellectuals?

Dying beauties: the wooden buildings of Istanbul

Don’t like Valentine’s Day? Blame Chaucer

Happy Lupercalia (2011)

Love Tokens from the Thames

From Grad School to 'The Atlantic'

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