04-23-2004, 01:48 PM
<em>Of course I was first surprised that Mike knew about novels</em><br>
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Does this mean all my efforts to push good historical novels are falling on stoney ground? Eheu!<br>
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<em>the Pubs part explaining (at least to my mind) how he might have learned about a non-scholarly non-scientific written work..</em><br>
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The only pubs I go in are ones that serve scrumpy from the wood (there is a very nice one at the end of Lendel Bridge in York, which (it has been suggested) partly explains why my RB trips visit there;-).<br>
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As for novels, I learnt far more about the Julio-Claudians in my formative years by reading <em>I Claudius</em> than I ever did from Scullard, Garzetti, or any of that ilk.<br>
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Mike Bishop <p></p><i></i>
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Does this mean all my efforts to push good historical novels are falling on stoney ground? Eheu!<br>
<br>
<em>the Pubs part explaining (at least to my mind) how he might have learned about a non-scholarly non-scientific written work..</em><br>
<br>
The only pubs I go in are ones that serve scrumpy from the wood (there is a very nice one at the end of Lendel Bridge in York, which (it has been suggested) partly explains why my RB trips visit there;-).<br>
<br>
As for novels, I learnt far more about the Julio-Claudians in my formative years by reading <em>I Claudius</em> than I ever did from Scullard, Garzetti, or any of that ilk.<br>
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Mike Bishop <p></p><i></i>
