Mary Beard recently posted on this blog advocating a greater place for the specialist historian in writing and presenting historical documentaries. Nowhere is her point more pronounced than in relation to under-represented periods of history.
Phil McCluskey
'Turkish village becomes latest doomsday hotspot', ran one headline last week. This is the news that 60,000 people are descending on a small Turkish village, where it is thought the Virgin Mary ascended to heaven: