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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
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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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Cunning Folk and Wise Women
The Magic That Wasn’t Superstition
May 26
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Neil Jopson
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The Fells at Dusk
Walking, Dread, and the Romantic Inheritance
May 25
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Neil Jopson
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Richard Jefferies’ After London
The First English Apocalypse
May 24
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Neil Jopson
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Sheridan Le Fanu and the Irish Ghost
What England Borrowed and What It Didn’t
May 23
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Neil Jopson
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Blood in the Field
Sacrifice, Ritual, and What Folk Memory Preserves
May 21
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Neil Jopson
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