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M. E. Rothwell

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M. E. Rothwell writes Cosmographia, a personal blog at cosmographia.substack.com about history and culture. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “The Black Death is far older than we thought”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.

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2024–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2024

A traveller in an antique land. Click to read Cosmographia, by M. E. Rothwell,

Most-linked posts?

  1. The Black Death is far older than we thought
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-16

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted Photographs of 19th Century Japan as a story · 452 points

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  2. Submitted Photographs of the Old West as a story · 183 points

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  3. Submitted The First Atlas as a story · 5 points

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  4. Submitted The Black Death is far older than we thought as a story · 5 points

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  5. Submitted Sam Altman is the Christopher Columbus of our time as a story · 4 points

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  6. Submitted Photographs of 19th Century Persia as a story · 4 points

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  7. Submitted The Black Death is far older than we thought as a story · 4 points

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  8. Submitted Istanbul in Paint as a story · 2 points

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  9. Submitted A Short History of Geocentrism as a story · 1 points

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