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The Settlers (2023) Visually stunning revisionist western from Felipe Gálvez Haberle (his debut film), but don’t think it packed the punch it should have. Set in 1901 along the Chile-Argentina border, Tierra Del Fuego to be precise. We are on land owned by José Menéndez, an incredibly wealthy...

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Recently finished Thirty Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape by Manchán Magan I really wanted to love this book. However, while I can appreciate a lot of what Magan has to say, overall it was just a bit too light and ‘wish-washy’ for me. The book sets out to provide an...

Just recently finished this: The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe's History by Peter H. Wilson image.png Long overdue reading this behemoth, published in 2016. At nearly a thousand pages it is a hefty tome and I certainly wouldn’t claim it was the briskest or easiest of reads. It...

Actually not familiar with Berlanga at all. Some of his stuff sounds really interesting though, maybe I'll follow suit and watch a few.

A lot, because I am a historian by training and have a huge interest in history. It is a fascinating, complex period spanning early antiquity to early modernity which has had huge signficance for the history of Europe and the Near East. Most "Romaboos" - when not being ironic and meta about it...

Impossible to pick just one. The Drunken Boat of course, Sensation and My Bohemian Life are two favourites as well.

Maestro looks awful, haven't bothered. Ferrari was unfortunately very poor, didn't bother with a review but saw it in the cinema because a mate dragged me over Christmas.

Napoleon (2023) Incredibly disappointing. Napoleon is a bloated, muddled mess which races from one event of Napoleon’s life to the other without providing so much as a modicum of context or depth. Narratively it is extremely disjointed, and well...boring. The film tries to cover the entirety...

Anna Keay’s The Restless Republic: Britain without a Crown Having just recently read Jonathan Healey’s new history of revolutionary England, I thought it would be good to tackle this one next. I was impressed with Healey’s, which provides a well-written overview of the whole century. Not dry...

Pretty much nail on the end right there. Couldn't have put it better.

Boring shite

The Beasts (2022) Was really really impressed with this Franco-Iberian thriller. The Beasts follows a French couple who have settled in a remote corner of Galicia. Painstakingly restoring abandoned farmhouses and practicing organic farming they have seemingly adopted this rural lifestyle in...

Recently finished: Jonathan Healey’s, The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England The seventeenth century is one of my favourite periods of history to study. My own research was focused on the Irish events of this period, though I was always particularly fascinated by the...

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Haven't actually read that one in particular, but his Early Christian Ireland was a key text for some courses I did at undergrad. It's a brilliant resource. And his Wales and the Britons, 350-1064 is also excellent. That book I would imagine would be a good synethsis of a lot of his research.

The sub-roman period in particular can be very tricky to reconstruct for sure. Thomas Charles-Edwards would be one of the best historians of that period, both from an Irish and British point of view.

Interesting I could see that definitely, sounds like you were remembering a certain element that was right anyway. It's certainly possible that the term might never made its way into English (which was evolved from the language brought by later Germanic settlers after all) only to be borrowed in...

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<Huh2> This is one hilariously garbled version of history. Like I honestly wonder where you have gotten this stuff from. The lasting influence of the Romans on Britain is up for debate amongst historians (ie. a rotation of elites at the top level of society, or whether there was any deeper...