Historian on the Edge
The Historical, Philosophical and Political Musings of an Autistic Historian
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history as irony
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Tuesday, 13 May 2014
Getting the point of pointlessness (Or, Back on the piste again. ... In which I dabble in philosophy)
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[ This is the paper which I gave at the 49th International Congress of Medieval Studies, in Kalamazoo MI last Saturday. It went through at ...
Thursday, 19 July 2012
Gaps, Ghosts and Dice, Version 2.0
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[ Here is the text of a key-note paper I gave yesterday to this conference, under the title of 'Each thought is a throw of the dice: Tr...
Wednesday, 30 May 2012
Gaps, Ghosts and Dice: More inchoate musings on the nature of history (in which Julius Caesar meets Stéphane Mallarmé): Part 1
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[ Brace yourself for more ill-informed, half-thought-through pseudo-philosophical waffling about what history really is. Ill-informed, etc....
Wednesday, 22 February 2012
Changing Minds around 600
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[ I was very kindly invited to give one of the once-a-term York Medieval Lectures yesterday (in-house speakers are not often invited), which...
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