Greetings, fellow time travellers.

It's lovely to have you with me.

History is all around us.

It's buried beneath her feet, literally, as I've experienced when I was a working archaeologist.

We can't tell what the future holds, but we can look back at the past as a kind of a user's manual, as a bit of a guide.

And we can be inspired, if if nothing else and that's what this

series modestly humbly attempts to do and it's a pleasure to be doing it with all of you

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Okay, it's now time to strap into the time machine and set the coordinates as we hurtle off towards the next stop in my love letter to the world. Recuous, lovely, long brown hair, dark eyes.

Europe's last witch is led in chains through the little town of Glaris in Switzerland to a square pact with people.

As science, reason and the Enlightenment are flourishing across the rest of the continent,

a swordsman swings his blade and cuts off the witch's head.

She's a powerful man's discarded mistress and can speak no more.

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