Plate 3 The ‘antiquitisation’ of Skopje, the Republic of North Macedonia 2017.

Dared try fly, we, these impassible trees, whose drive-capturing crests communicate failed shots to yesterseason's leafy cache …

Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.

[Father Roman] had shriven many simple souls on the battlefields of the Republic, kneeling by the dying on hillsides, in the long grass, in the gloom of the forests, to hear the last confession with the smell of gunpowder smoke in his nostrils, the rattle of muskets, the hum and spatter of bullets in his ears.