Month: October 2017
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Demography, Statistics, and the Cultural Historian
These days if I’m forced to put myself in a sub-disciplinary box, I usually say that I’m a cultural historian. This is less because I’m an adherent of the Burkean New Cultural History (or any other theoretical agenda, for that matter) than because it seems to offer a comfortable basket into which I can fit […]
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Kayaking and Epigraphy: A Match Made in Heaven?
A few months ago, the Historian and I were on holiday in Mull, bouncing along sheep-strewn single-track roads in our aging but faithful Honda Jazz in search of whatever antiquities we could find. We found plenty, including a possibly unrecorded boat graveyard, dozens of pre-Clearance settlements, and a Victorian country house with a particularly delectable […]
Kelsey Jackson Williams 