Writer
Tim Flight
I am a freelance historical and literary writer based in West Yorkshire, UK. I read for a funded PhD in English at the University of Oxford (Magdalen College) and graduated in 2016. I am a former lecturer in Medieval English Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. My publications include peer-reviewed articles in academic publications, and pieces in mainstream magazines such as History Today and Fortean Times. For more information, please see www.drflight.co.uk
Latest by Tim Flight
American History
Utah Beach’s Lowest D-Day Casualties Began With a Navigation Mistake
Middle Ages
Saladin Sent His Dying Enemy Richard I Ice and Fruit Mid-Battle
Middle Ages
Crusaders Set Out to Fight Muslims — Then Sacked Christianity’s Greatest City
Middle Ages
Charlemagne Couldn’t Write His Name Yet Rewrote Medieval Europe
Ancient History
Pompeii’s Ash Preserved the Smell of a Roman Home for 2,000 Years
Ancient History
Cleopatra Seized Power at 18 and Outlasted Everyone Before Dying at 39
Literature
9 Enlightenment Thinkers Who Risked Everything to Print Forbidden Ideas
Entertainment
French Revolution Musicals Keep Staging a Marie Antoinette Who Never Existed
Ancient History
Pax Romana Killed Millions in Judea While Rome Called It Peace
American History