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Postcards from the Past

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December 2025

Flavius Cerialis was Prefect of the ninth cohort of Batavians, who lived with his family in the praetorium at the small fort of Vindolanda, just south…

Dec 31, 2025 • James Coverley

Why is New Years Day on January 1st?

As the year comes to a close, one sees the cold, crisp memories of the twelfth month fade behind us, and we look forward to a gentle year, one full of…

Dec 30, 2025 • James Coverley

Postcards From the Past

Dec 27, 2025 • James Coverley

Why is Christmas on December 25th?

The BBC comes in for all sorts of criticism, some harsh, some justified, and all of it largely centred around the idea that the great British public has…

Dec 23, 2025 • James Coverley

Postcards From the Past

Number Fourteen

Dec 20, 2025 • James Coverley

Dec 18, 2025 • James Coverley

How Did Saint Nicholas Become Santa Claus?

In Wales, there are all sorts of idiosyncratic little hoops through which one quickly learns to jump in order to blend in.

Dec 16, 2025 • James Coverley

Postcards From the Past

Number Thirteen

Dec 13, 2025 • James Coverley

Dec 11, 2025 • James Coverley

What Was The Saturnalia?

It’s not that the weather in the little archipelago that contains Great Britain and the island of Ireland is awful, per se - it really isn’t!

Dec 9, 2025 • James Coverley

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