Paul Cooper
@paulmmcooper.com
Novelist & podcast maker｜Wrote River of Ink (2016), All Our Broken Idols (2020), Fall of Civilizations (2024)｜Creator of the Fall of Civilizations Podcast @fallofcivilizations.com
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⛰️🏔️ Episode 20 is now available for all subscribers! 🏔️⛰️
In this episode, we look at the amazing story of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.
With readings in Old Persian and Ancient Greek, find out how the world's largest empire rose, flourished, and finally fell in ash and flame.
In this episode, we look at the amazing story of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.
With readings in Old Persian and Ancient Greek, find out how the world's largest empire rose, flourished, and finally fell in ash and flame.
20. Persia - An Empire in Ashes **Now available for subscribers!** | Fall of Civilizations Podcast
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November 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
⛰️🏔️ Episode 20 is now available for all subscribers! 🏔️⛰️
In this episode, we look at the amazing story of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.
With readings in Old Persian and Ancient Greek, find out how the world's largest empire rose, flourished, and finally fell in ash and flame.
In this episode, we look at the amazing story of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.
With readings in Old Persian and Ancient Greek, find out how the world's largest empire rose, flourished, and finally fell in ash and flame.
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The first episode of my new series Truly Tradly Deeply is here! We dive into the evolution of the tradwife subculture, how hyper-feminine aesthetics are weaponised by the European far right, and why Phyllis Schlafly was a Lean In Girlboss 💅💖
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Truly Tradly Deeply Episode 1: Introduction — “All I Think About Is Buying Cows”
The first episode of Annie Kelly's 6-part podcast miniseries Truly Tradly Deeply. Cursed Media subscribers have access to the first two episodes right now, plus each new episode as they are released w
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October 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The first episode of my new series Truly Tradly Deeply is here! We dive into the evolution of the tradwife subculture, how hyper-feminine aesthetics are weaponised by the European far right, and why Phyllis Schlafly was a Lean In Girlboss 💅💖
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My favourite stretch of the Antonine Wall, the Roman frontier in Scotland, can be found at Dullatur. Here the Wall's enormous ditch is remarkably well preserved, tangible evidence of the impressive scale of this 38-mile-long monument.
#RomanSiteSaturday
#RomanSiteSaturday
October 25, 2025 at 7:53 AM
My favourite stretch of the Antonine Wall, the Roman frontier in Scotland, can be found at Dullatur. Here the Wall's enormous ditch is remarkably well preserved, tangible evidence of the impressive scale of this 38-mile-long monument.
#RomanSiteSaturday
#RomanSiteSaturday
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Little Holy Island retreat. Hiked for hours in the dunes. Prayed in the ruins. On the outcrops. By the sea.
Watched the sunset. Waited for the stars to open up. Saw the milky way. Saw a comet fall from the sky. Split into two. Burn up over the land. Red and white coals in the darkness.
Watched the sunset. Waited for the stars to open up. Saw the milky way. Saw a comet fall from the sky. Split into two. Burn up over the land. Red and white coals in the darkness.
October 24, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Little Holy Island retreat. Hiked for hours in the dunes. Prayed in the ruins. On the outcrops. By the sea.
Watched the sunset. Waited for the stars to open up. Saw the milky way. Saw a comet fall from the sky. Split into two. Burn up over the land. Red and white coals in the darkness.
Watched the sunset. Waited for the stars to open up. Saw the milky way. Saw a comet fall from the sky. Split into two. Burn up over the land. Red and white coals in the darkness.
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Took an extended lunch break today to enjoy the #autumn colours before the coming winds and rain blow the foliage away.
The river Wear in the #Durham area is lovely in any season, but particularly so in elusive autumn sunshine. 😊
#FinchalePriory
The river Wear in the #Durham area is lovely in any season, but particularly so in elusive autumn sunshine. 😊
#FinchalePriory
October 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Took an extended lunch break today to enjoy the #autumn colours before the coming winds and rain blow the foliage away.
The river Wear in the #Durham area is lovely in any season, but particularly so in elusive autumn sunshine. 😊
#FinchalePriory
The river Wear in the #Durham area is lovely in any season, but particularly so in elusive autumn sunshine. 😊
#FinchalePriory
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I’m going to have to go back to the Hafod y Porth copper mine high on the slopes of Cwm y Bleiddiad (valley/hollow of the wolf), Eryri for a more detailed look as I didn’t have time yesterday. I passed a powder store on the miners track, the managers house & smithy & a nice circular powder magazine
October 18, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I’m going to have to go back to the Hafod y Porth copper mine high on the slopes of Cwm y Bleiddiad (valley/hollow of the wolf), Eryri for a more detailed look as I didn’t have time yesterday. I passed a powder store on the miners track, the managers house & smithy & a nice circular powder magazine
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After threading the razor-thin cornwall roads, got to Treyarnon & caught the Winecove Point Complex at sunset
Not clear if this was always 2 promotory forts or one which has eroded clean down the middle
Incredible either way
#HillfortsWednesday
After threading the razor-thin cornwall roads, got to Treyarnon & caught the Winecove Point Complex at sunset
Not clear if this was always 2 promotory forts or one which has eroded clean down the middle
Incredible either way
#HillfortsWednesday
October 15, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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After threading the razor-thin cornwall roads, got to Treyarnon & caught the Winecove Point Complex at sunset
Not clear if this was always 2 promotory forts or one which has eroded clean down the middle
Incredible either way
#HillfortsWednesday
After threading the razor-thin cornwall roads, got to Treyarnon & caught the Winecove Point Complex at sunset
Not clear if this was always 2 promotory forts or one which has eroded clean down the middle
Incredible either way
#HillfortsWednesday
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The vaulted undercroft at Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire. The abbey was originally established by Benedictine monks from St Mary's Abbey in York in 1132 and became one of the largest Cistercian houses in England. 📸 My own. #MedievalMonday #FountainsAbbey #Yorkshire
October 13, 2025 at 6:38 AM
The vaulted undercroft at Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire. The abbey was originally established by Benedictine monks from St Mary's Abbey in York in 1132 and became one of the largest Cistercian houses in England. 📸 My own. #MedievalMonday #FountainsAbbey #Yorkshire
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damn. hoping it at least signifies something
It is a tale
Told by an idiot
Told by an idiot
October 10, 2025 at 4:09 AM
damn. hoping it at least signifies something
Sitting down today to record for Fall of Civilizations Episode 20!
October 10, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Sitting down today to record for Fall of Civilizations Episode 20!
Really proud Fall of Civilizations has been named a Waterstones paperback of the year. Get it at your local Waterstones!
LINK: www.waterstones.com/book/fall-of...
LINK: www.waterstones.com/book/fall-of...
September 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Really proud Fall of Civilizations has been named a Waterstones paperback of the year. Get it at your local Waterstones!
LINK: www.waterstones.com/book/fall-of...
LINK: www.waterstones.com/book/fall-of...
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One day, nearly 2000 years ago, a cat dashed across some drying tiles, somewhere near Hadrian's Wall.
It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?
It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?
September 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
One day, nearly 2000 years ago, a cat dashed across some drying tiles, somewhere near Hadrian's Wall.
It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?
It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?
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St Catherine's Hill, Winchester, rising high above the Itchen Valley floodplain. On the summit of then iron age hillfort is a beech clump and nearby buried remains of a Norman chapel.
September 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
St Catherine's Hill, Winchester, rising high above the Itchen Valley floodplain. On the summit of then iron age hillfort is a beech clump and nearby buried remains of a Norman chapel.
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Not sure any work of art haunts me like this one
September 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Not sure any work of art haunts me like this one
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Holy smokes, FASCINATING thread about Caligula's "pleasure barges" and their attempted recovery by Mussolini.
Some of the most remarkable lost artefacts from the ancient world were the titanic wrecks of the Nemi ships, built for a Roman emperor.
In their first-century heyday they held gardens, palaces and baths in a floating wonderland. But barely a decade after their recovery, they were lost forever.
In their first-century heyday they held gardens, palaces and baths in a floating wonderland. But barely a decade after their recovery, they were lost forever.
September 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Holy smokes, FASCINATING thread about Caligula's "pleasure barges" and their attempted recovery by Mussolini.
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A Moment In The Ruins
September 5, 2025 at 11:18 AM
A Moment In The Ruins
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September 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Ruins of Eldena Monastery near Greifswald, 1825, by Caspar David Friedrich, born OTD 1774. Love the little house nestled safely among the huge ruins!
September 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Ruins of Eldena Monastery near Greifswald, 1825, by Caspar David Friedrich, born OTD 1774. Love the little house nestled safely among the huge ruins!
Maybe @lukeoneil47.bsky.social is the poet laureate of our times...
September 6, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Maybe @lukeoneil47.bsky.social is the poet laureate of our times...
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Near Beetham you’ll find the Fairy Steps. Carved into limestone rock, local tradition says that if you can negotiate them without touching the sides, fairies will grant you a wish!
more in: "Folklore of the Lake District"
bardofcumberland.com/folklore/
#bookologythursday #booksky
more in: "Folklore of the Lake District"
bardofcumberland.com/folklore/
#bookologythursday #booksky
September 4, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Near Beetham you’ll find the Fairy Steps. Carved into limestone rock, local tradition says that if you can negotiate them without touching the sides, fairies will grant you a wish!
more in: "Folklore of the Lake District"
bardofcumberland.com/folklore/
#bookologythursday #booksky
more in: "Folklore of the Lake District"
bardofcumberland.com/folklore/
#bookologythursday #booksky
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Little meander around the ruins of St Mary’s York this afternoon
August 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Little meander around the ruins of St Mary’s York this afternoon
Some of the most remarkable lost artefacts from the ancient world were the titanic wrecks of the Nemi ships, built for a Roman emperor.
In their first-century heyday they held gardens, palaces and baths in a floating wonderland. But barely a decade after their recovery, they were lost forever.
In their first-century heyday they held gardens, palaces and baths in a floating wonderland. But barely a decade after their recovery, they were lost forever.
September 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Some of the most remarkable lost artefacts from the ancient world were the titanic wrecks of the Nemi ships, built for a Roman emperor.
In their first-century heyday they held gardens, palaces and baths in a floating wonderland. But barely a decade after their recovery, they were lost forever.
In their first-century heyday they held gardens, palaces and baths in a floating wonderland. But barely a decade after their recovery, they were lost forever.