A pedant notes: JKR has almost certainly never said anything that anyonr but a fringe lunatic would find controversial. She's onoy controversial because fringe lunatics have declared her so (View Post)

Just woken from an intense dream in which Victoria Coren was trying to persuafe me to take over the running of Pinner Post Office because the previous incumbent, (who in my dream was a man who my ex-… (View Post)

So have I. Several. Max Adams - the First Kingdom - being the most recent. Interested in your book - tag me when you find it. I'd have thought Dark Ages history quite a niche interest. But I fin… (View Post)

Possibly. The thing about the Dark Ages is that the sources we have are very sketchy. It was certainly an awful time for the history-writing people. Evidence of how life was for the masses of peasant… (View Post)

That's a fair point, but that would also probably have been true at the time of the Luddites. (View Post)