Historiai

After far too long a hiatus, I’m back. To the 20 or so people who continuously check in on this blog every day waiting for an update, I don’t know who you are, but I love you from afar! Chances are these might just be bots though, in which case: 01001001 00100000 01101100 01101111 01110110 01100101 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101.

Some update and justification are probably needed here, so here we go. For the last few years, I’ve been fighting a continuing battle with depression as well as taking on quite a lot of work all at once. I moved to the other side of the world, started my PhD at a new university, started and finished a whole new series for Kings and Generals, and more on the side. As a result of that, I’ve just not had a lot of time where I’ve felt comfortable sitting down and writing about history for my own pleasure. Every time that I’ve tried to that voice in the back of my head appear to whisper about how I should really be focusing on more ‘serious’ work. I’m at a point now though where I feel more on top of my workload and more grounded in myself and so I’m keen to get back to producing history for myself, and for the small but wonderful group of people who ever bother to read these things.

Anyone who is in that tiny cohort and has seen this site recently will notice that a lot of previous posts have been removed. Upon rereading them, I don’t think they worked too well: there was a lot of sloppy grammar and spelling, and some ideas that I just never quite managed to communicate clearly enough. I’ll be revising and adding to them in the near future and uploading improved versions of them. So, never fear, if you hate Troy: Fall of a City it will be dismantled in every detail once again soon!

To give some idea of how I see this all playing out, the aim of the game will be to post something weekly. That will either be something about how ancient history is being used (often abused) in popular media, or something that is more rooted in the academic research that I’m doing. Don’t worry, I’ll always try to keep it light and accessible, it won’t be overly scholarly. I’ve also finally decided to start a Patreon after multiple people enquired about it (I’d be lying if I said it took a lot of people to convince me though, I’ve gotta pay the bills somehow!). You can find it here: peter voller | Making ancient history modern | Patreon

I can’t stress enough that supporting me there is by no means a necessity or expectation. If you appreciate the work I’ve done/do there are loads of way of supporting me, Patreon is just one of those avenues. Equally valuable is people commenting on posts here or sharing these around to others (word of mouth is basically the only form of ‘marketing’ here).

That’s about all I have for now. The first post of this new era will be appearing this weekend, probably Sunday, so keep an eye out for that!