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The Ghost Fleet of Chuuk Lagoon
How War Created an Incredible Underwater World
Jul 28
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Neil Jopson
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The Libraries That Burned
Cultural Memory, Deliberate Destruction, and the Gap Between What Civilisations Made and What Survived
Jul 21
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Neil Jopson
4
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The Making of The Tarn
How I wrote a ghost story
Jul 14
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Neil Jopson
2
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The Ship That Never Left the Dock
The SS Eastland and the deadliest disaster in Great Lakes history
Jul 8
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Neil Jopson
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June 2026
The Green Children of Woolpit
Medieval England's Strangest True Story
Jun 30
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Neil Jopson
3
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The Lighthouse Keeper’s Last Entry
The Flannan Isles mystery and the three men who simply ceased to exist
Jun 26
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Neil Jopson
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The Prophet Business
A short history of the people who have always known the end is coming
Jun 23
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Neil Jopson
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The Bones of the Mary Rose
What Henry VIII's warship tells us about Tudor seafaring life
Jun 16
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Neil Jopson
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What Collapse Looks Like From the Inside
Why civilisations rarely know they are falling until it is too late
Jun 9
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Neil Jopson
2
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The Man Who Walked Out Into The Ice
Heroism, tragedy and national identity
Jun 9
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Neil Jopson
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The Last Voyage of the SS Waratah
The ship that disappeared
Jun 2
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Neil Jopson
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May 2026
The Books That Made Me Write This
A (rather good) reading list
May 29
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Neil Jopson
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