<p>Travel through time and enhance your vocabulary with some of our favourite old words. Agnoiology, bartitsu, blackguardiana, palimpsest, telectroscope... what do they all mean?</p>

Travel through time and enhance your vocabulary with some of our favourite old words. Agnoiology, bartitsu, blackguardiana, palimpsest, telectroscope... what do they all mean?

A Time Traveller's dictionary

<p>Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough presents a collection of quirky tales gathered from the corners of history by an intrepid band of time travelling correspondents, with a new theme every week.</p>

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Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough presents a collection of quirky tales gathered from the corners of history by an intrepid band of time travelling correspondents, with a new theme every week.

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