Records
Every institution that has ever held power has also held the record of that power and made decisions about what that record would say. The Church, the guilds, the fraternal orders, the financial systems, the calendars that were reformed and the timelines that were compressed. This category examines the keepers—and what they chose to do with what they held.
Before the Canon: Walking the Line
Before the Canon III Tertullian wrote in 200 AD that Christ's name had already reached parts of Britain inaccessible even to Rome. Eusebius of Caesarea...
London: 600 Years as the New Troy
For roughly six hundred years, London was described, celebrated, and physically built upon as a Trojan city, believed in as one by men writing...
Cornwall of Troy: The Real Prize the Legend Handed to a Second Son
Every schoolchild in England once knew the name Brutus of Troy. He was Britain's first king, the great-grandson of Aeneas, the man who crossed...
Producing Human Beings By Incubation Fifty Years Hence
Editorial Note In 1905, The Washington Times ran this piece of speculative journalism on the manufacture of human life, built around the work of Dr....
When Jesus Walked in Britain
Before the Canon II Between the age of twelve and the age of thirty, the canonical Gospels say nothing about Jesus. A single scene in...


