Peter Sandham @HKSandham
Historical Fiction Author. Porphyry trilogy from @sharpebooks set in 15th century #Byzantine #Venetian #Ottoman Empires. bylines @Excvbitor #history #histfic porphyryand.blogspot.com Kuala Lumpur City Joined May 2017-
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So many fascinating historical mysteries surrounding herbalism in past cultures.
So many fascinating historical mysteries surrounding herbalism in past cultures.
I think you need to adjust those GDP figures for inflation if you are making the comparison over various centuries. And that is setting aside the flaws in GDP as a financial metric.
I think you need to adjust those GDP figures for inflation if you are making the comparison over various centuries. And that is setting aside the flaws in GDP as a financial metric.
The mob came for the Emperor but his Varangians stood firm in the doorway.
The mob came for the Emperor but his Varangians stood firm in the doorway.
I love this about history and it is what can make historical fiction so rich. Most of the time the drama is already there waiting to be uncovered.
I love this about history and it is what can make historical fiction so rich. Most of the time the drama is already there waiting to be uncovered.
Ada Kaleh was an island on the Danube. Once an important fort for the Ottomans, it was populated by Turkish population. It was a long isolated enclave of Turkish culture. But it doesn't exist anymore. It was submerged in 1970 during the construction of the Iron Gates dam. 🧵
Thread on 20th century disaster propagated by an Austrian names Adolf.
Thread on 20th century disaster propagated by an Austrian names Adolf.
@HKSandham He was a young itinerant student from Kyiv, who was tonsured a monk by the Patriarch of Antioch. He is the elder brother of my 5th great-grandfather - the architect of Ukrainian churches Ivan Grigorovich-Barsky.
Greek fire, invented by the Greaco-Levantine Kallinikos of Heliopolis, was shot out of Cheirosiphon like this reconstruction. Below is an episode of Ancient TVs reconstruction
As with all things, it traces back to Byzantium. Even Lionel Messi 😂
So I just saw the Woman King, and yeah from a historical perspective the movie was pretty reprehensible. The way that the movie depicts the King of Dahomey's participation is so far removed from reality that it borders on unethical disinformation.
For some reason this corner (Jimmy Choo’s first shoe workshop) reminded me of Nafplio in the Morea.
Georgetown is one of the most photogenic cities in Asia. Old Imperial mixed with even older imperial mixed with local flavour.
theguardian.com/books/2022/dec… Vlad back under the microscope.
The Stato da Mar, Venice’s maritime empire, was founded on the territory it gained from the Fourth Crusade. But the success of this empire owed to the Venetian constitution, which had just undergone many important changes by 1204. Thread.
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A few days ago I had the opportunity to visit Ponte Milvio on the River Tiber in Rome. This was the location of the famous battle between Maxentius and Constantine in October 312, when Constantine triumpherd over Maxentius who drowned in the Tiber while retreating with his army.
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'Ahead' in terms of festooning boats and buildings with lights?!
Chinese cities are decades ahead of US cities
@voiceofhellas This one is still the tops
Did you hear the one about the Greek monk who was really a British spy? Thread. 👇
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Sunrise over the Marble Tower in January.
After centuries of cruel chattel slavery, African slaves rise up to massacre their oppressors. A protracted & bitter war ensues, the rebels taking refuge in the marshes & rivers that surround the now-charred plantations. This is Iraq.
Who are the people making these decisions? And why does their mental fragility give them the right to re-shape the world and re-write an author’s work? telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/1…
Edward III of England is descended from the Roman Emperor Romanos III and Harold Godwinson, King of England Genealogy Thread >
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Starting a sentence with ‘So’.
What word or phrase makes you cringe?
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