Catherine Fletcher
@cathfletcher.bsky.social
Writing history, usually in Manchester, when possible in Italy. 'Renaissance skulduggery' - The Guardian. THE ROADS TO ROME out now. Coming April 26: THE FIREARM REVOLUTION.
Okay folks, what helpful advice is ChatGPT going to hallucinate for Brad and Janet here?
October 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Okay folks, what helpful advice is ChatGPT going to hallucinate for Brad and Janet here?
Well the breakfast will easily absorb several of these
October 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Well the breakfast will easily absorb several of these
At a conference and the hotel is offering Breakfast Cocktails and you know, with the state of academia today...
October 10, 2025 at 11:47 AM
At a conference and the hotel is offering Breakfast Cocktails and you know, with the state of academia today...
I'm not usually one to post my lunch but I need to alert frequenters of Bloomsbury libraries to this delicious cheesecake at Honey & Co on Store Street.
October 2, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I'm not usually one to post my lunch but I need to alert frequenters of Bloomsbury libraries to this delicious cheesecake at Honey & Co on Store Street.
Only two days left to snap up this offer. Here's another throwback photo from my trip: the Via Appia near Frattocchie, not far from Rome.
September 29, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Only two days left to snap up this offer. Here's another throwback photo from my trip: the Via Appia near Frattocchie, not far from Rome.
You see I reckon actors of that period were definitely plucking away. Look at King James here: those brows are not natural.
September 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
You see I reckon actors of that period were definitely plucking away. Look at King James here: those brows are not natural.
Three years ago I visited Ostia Antica as I researched The Roads to Rome. Here's a spot of Roman road: you can just spot a few paving stones beneath the pine needles, and imagine the scent. #ThrowbackThursday
September 18, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Three years ago I visited Ostia Antica as I researched The Roads to Rome. Here's a spot of Roman road: you can just spot a few paving stones beneath the pine needles, and imagine the scent. #ThrowbackThursday
Facebook reminds me that eight years ago today I was just getting started on my firearms project.
September 17, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Facebook reminds me that eight years ago today I was just getting started on my firearms project.
so I mentioned Rome while drafting my lecture slides and the AI design widget gave me Florence 👀
September 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
so I mentioned Rome while drafting my lecture slides and the AI design widget gave me Florence 👀
Three years ago I was exploring the incredible Furlo tunnel (1st century CE), which leads the Via Flaminia through a cliff along the side of this gorge. When it was first built it was halfway up the cliffs: the reservoir you see here is modern. #RomanSiteSaturday
September 13, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Three years ago I was exploring the incredible Furlo tunnel (1st century CE), which leads the Via Flaminia through a cliff along the side of this gorge. When it was first built it was halfway up the cliffs: the reservoir you see here is modern. #RomanSiteSaturday
My flight is delayed and I was idly wondering what a gun with transgender ideology might look like, so here for your edification is an actual First World War hermaphrodite tank.
September 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
My flight is delayed and I was idly wondering what a gun with transgender ideology might look like, so here for your edification is an actual First World War hermaphrodite tank.
Starting the day at @qubhistory.bsky.social public history conference by crafting some commonplace books
September 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Starting the day at @qubhistory.bsky.social public history conference by crafting some commonplace books
Three years ago I was in Rimini. Here's its Arch (really a gate) of Augustus. The inscription records the Emperor's improvements to the Via Flaminia. Its current setting dates to the Fascist period (see the buildings in the background).
September 10, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Three years ago I was in Rimini. Here's its Arch (really a gate) of Augustus. The inscription records the Emperor's improvements to the Via Flaminia. Its current setting dates to the Fascist period (see the buildings in the background).
And into Belfast with plenty of time for a nice pre-conference breakfast.
September 9, 2025 at 6:51 AM
And into Belfast with plenty of time for a nice pre-conference breakfast.
Moonlight over Liverpool as I head off to tomorrow's public history conference at @qubhistory.bsky.social
September 8, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Moonlight over Liverpool as I head off to tomorrow's public history conference at @qubhistory.bsky.social
A reminder that THE ROADS TO ROME is still on Kindle sale. Three years ago I was in Genoa, thinking about the arrival of the train and how it changed the experience of travelling to Rome.
September 7, 2025 at 7:31 AM
A reminder that THE ROADS TO ROME is still on Kindle sale. Three years ago I was in Genoa, thinking about the arrival of the train and how it changed the experience of travelling to Rome.
Writing about Leonardo da Vinci today and I've nearly got my head around the difference between the Virgin OF the rocks (a painting) and a Virgin ON the rocks (a non-alcoholic cocktail on ice).
September 4, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Writing about Leonardo da Vinci today and I've nearly got my head around the difference between the Virgin OF the rocks (a painting) and a Virgin ON the rocks (a non-alcoholic cocktail on ice).
I needed a good laugh this afternoon, so here is the AI description of Machiavelli's Art of War that now pops up automatically on ProQuest Ebook Central.
September 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I needed a good laugh this afternoon, so here is the AI description of Machiavelli's Art of War that now pops up automatically on ProQuest Ebook Central.
Three years ago today I was exploring the Alyscamps in Arles, a Roman road lined with tombs.
September 3, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Three years ago today I was exploring the Alyscamps in Arles, a Roman road lined with tombs.
Three years ago today I was on my big research trip for this book, visiting the splendid Arc d'Orange in southern France, which celebrates various Roman victories.
September 2, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Three years ago today I was on my big research trip for this book, visiting the splendid Arc d'Orange in southern France, which celebrates various Roman victories.
SEPTEMBER SPECIAL!
Back to work today, but with the happy news that THE ROADS TO ROME is only 99p on Kindle all month so you can get away from it all in virtual fashion and enjoy the ancient routes.
www.amazon.co.uk/Roads-Rome-H...
Back to work today, but with the happy news that THE ROADS TO ROME is only 99p on Kindle all month so you can get away from it all in virtual fashion and enjoy the ancient routes.
www.amazon.co.uk/Roads-Rome-H...
September 1, 2025 at 7:07 AM
SEPTEMBER SPECIAL!
Back to work today, but with the happy news that THE ROADS TO ROME is only 99p on Kindle all month so you can get away from it all in virtual fashion and enjoy the ancient routes.
www.amazon.co.uk/Roads-Rome-H...
Back to work today, but with the happy news that THE ROADS TO ROME is only 99p on Kindle all month so you can get away from it all in virtual fashion and enjoy the ancient routes.
www.amazon.co.uk/Roads-Rome-H...
Now here's a bit of green ecclesiastical history I did not know: monks built the first public electricity scheme in the Highlands - and it was hydropower.
August 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Now here's a bit of green ecclesiastical history I did not know: monks built the first public electricity scheme in the Highlands - and it was hydropower.
Last day at work until September, and I made some good progress on my early modern gun history teaching materials, which you'll soon be able to download for yourself thanks to colleagues at Pittsburgh.
August 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Last day at work until September, and I made some good progress on my early modern gun history teaching materials, which you'll soon be able to download for yourself thanks to colleagues at Pittsburgh.
Just finished this excellent spy novel from the 70s where the main character is a First World War historian and now I want to know if all you #FWW people have read it and if so what do you think?
August 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Just finished this excellent spy novel from the 70s where the main character is a First World War historian and now I want to know if all you #FWW people have read it and if so what do you think?
Anyway, I have (nearly) got all the pictures sorted. Here's Cardinal Borromeo miraculously surviving an assassination attempt.
August 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Anyway, I have (nearly) got all the pictures sorted. Here's Cardinal Borromeo miraculously surviving an assassination attempt.