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Favourite sentences and paragraphs from stories I read this year

Vernacular/Nostalgia: spent Santa

Issue 54: the anatomy of Christmas

Mini issue: recycled ephemera in the Bodleian Library

Issue 53: how ancient Libyan ruins ended up in the grounds of Windsor Castle

Mini issue: the Roman wall in an underground car park

Issue 52: a witch’s cauldron

Issue 51: a social history of 1920s London (part 3)

Issue 50: how the Romans kept bad luck at bay

Issue 49: the Pearly Kings and Queens of London

Vernacular/Nostalgia: QWERTY sampler

Issue 48: the Cosmic House museum

Vernacular/Nostalgia: behind the scenes at the museum

Issue 47: the most important publication in science was paid for in fish books

Vernacular/Nostalgia: cedar trees

Issue 46: ornamental hermits

From the archives: X marks the spot

From the archives: of multi-generational migration fame

From the archives: the crucial role of women in the birth of the Bronze Age

From the archives: Goodbye Gary Arber

Issue 45: the tree that time forgot (for a few million years)

Issue 44: the influence of medievalism on the Suffragettes

Issue 43: a pause; the semi-colon

Issue 42: a social history of 1920s London (part 2)

Issue 41: not Venusian surface features, but retinal veins

Issue 40: the forgotten success and status of English cider

Issue 39: a social history of 1920s London (part 1)

Issue 38: how a unique native Australian animal is like a classical Greek character

Issue 37: the ‘extinct’ wonder plant of the ancient world, rediscovered

Issue 36: the man who democratised the colour purple

Issue 35: the academic origins of an alleged occult image

Issue 34: there’s a universal pattern in profanity, but it’s not what you probably think