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The H Files by Helen Castor
Helen Castor
Historian, writer, broadcaster: Blood & Roses, She-Wolves, Joan of Arc, Elizabeth I, The Eagle and the Hart
The H Files by Helen Castor
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The towers rise, the wheel of history turns…
This (and the whole series) is free to read - come build Notre-Dame with me!
Building Notre-Dame #4
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This is precisely why I love when I find my favorite writers, like Helen Pluckrose , Helen Castor , Henry Oliver and a host of others on Substack.
This, as noted by my AI scheduler, really is the difference between how I typically write on Substack and how I write for external outlets.
Substack is where I think out loud about whatever has seized my interest. I often don’t know where a piece is going to end up. Writing is thinking. This saves my friends from getting thousand word te…
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I would like to create a “Couch to 5k” programme for reading. Starting with small amounts of daily reading, building our stamina up. Ending, I think, with ‘reading a book in a day’ as our version of the 5k. Do let me know if you’re interested - I want to run something and then iterate on it. I think this isn’t the kind of thing one can w…
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Actually: I have been thinking that I might try to put together a “Couch to 5k” programme for reading. Please do let me know in the comments or by PM if you’d like to be involved in trying such a thing out or have ideas for it?!