In Our Time is a weekly BBC R4 conversation hosted by Melvyn Bragg with usually three top scholars or academics in their field of study. ...

It's a wonderful conversation although for me, there are two exceptional moments in this 2008 Southbank production. Baron Bragg says he...

It's an exceptional presentation and sometimes hallucinogenic in its Damascene honesty.  Unforgettable.  What was the name of the colle...

A lot of history is biased, which is why Diocletian requires more attention. A lowly born Roman emperor. Did some amazing things, made some...

The Silk Roads commences a little bumpy, and ends premature. Other than that it's a great educational journey. Horses...

I still like the idea of Flavian dynasty creation of the gospels because frankly I'm damn sure all religious texts are copied, m...

The Romans started to come together for me while watching I Claudius  some years back but only in a chronological kind of way. To ...

If Caesar is the rock star of Roman history, Caligula is the Charles Manson.  Real name Emperor Gaius, Caligula is the dimin...

I'm not very comfortable using the holocaust word in a post title, as it props up a terrible lie with a grain of truth in it. ...

The lecturer Henry Abramson is too conflicted in this presentation to offer much value on the subject of Josephus ben Matityahu ...

I do have questions such as why are there Roman writings that nod towards the Flavian dynasty creation of Jesus to dissipate the ...

Earlier today, Richard Dawkins tweeted about Joseph Atwill's work on the synthetic creation of Jesus by the Flavian dynast...

This is very good though I can't help but be suspicious of Portillo since the gossip of his taste in young boys has emerged f...

Caesar's Messiah: The Roman Conspiracy to Invent Jesus - Flavian Signature Edition The thing that intrigued me most when I fi...

  From time to time I'll listen to this argument. I haven't heard or seen the concrete evidence I want and I've never ...

I've posted interviews with Joe Atwill before over here . He asks a great question. In an area where Qumran, Jericho and Jerus...

The late Chalmers Johnson points out that Eisenhower's Military Industrial Complex speech was meant to be Military Industrial C...

Claudius was one of the most capable, yet unlikely emperors. Shunned as an idiot by his family due to a limp and embarrassing ...

There is much to be learned from Robert Graves' I Claudius . Who the States deems too stupid and insufficiently polished to pa...