The Ancient Technology Centre (ATC) began over 25 years ago as a school project.  Jake Keen, a teacher working at Cranborne Middle School, designed and led the building of an Iron Age roundhouse based on archaeological evidence. Uniquely, Jake’s ethos demanded the construction and material gathering to be undertaken by school children. The harvesting of materials took place in local woodlands and reed beds and after 6 months, the children began work on building the structure.  A year of hard work saw the completion of the roundhouse and marked the beginning of the Ancient Technology Centre.

The British Iron Age lasted in theory from the first significant use of iron for tools and weapons in Britain to the
Romanisation of the Southern half of the island, a period from circa 800 – 600 BC up to circa 50 AD

JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW

Hour One

Saturday 26 April 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts by Graham Robb  (1 of 4)

Saturday 26 April 2014 / Hour 1, Block B: The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts by Graham Robb  (2 of 4)

Saturday 26 April 2014 / Hour 1, Block C:  The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts by Graham Robb  (3 of 4)

Saturday 26 April 2014 / Hour 1, Block D: The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts by Graham Robb  (4 of 4)

Hour Two

 

Engraving, below: Peter Withorne's 1573 translation of The Art of  War, by Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli.   "He mancipated politics from theology and moral philosophy. He undertook to describe simply what rulers actually did and thus anticipated what was later called the scientific spirit in which questions of good and bad are ignored, and the observer attempts to discover only what really happens." —Joshua Kaplan, 2005

virtu – from vir, man; the qualities of manliness: fortitude, courage, boldness in action, resolution.

fortuna  -  fortune is fickle, favors the bold, the young; is unpredictable.  Fortune is identified with change. 

ordini –a constitutional order; how statues are applied; the legal and social attributes that constitute a legal order.  Can virtu overcome fortuna?  Ordini solve it by collective virtu – society at large can collectively overcome limitations of individuals.

See: A Treatise on Principalities.  See: Hour 3: The Garments of Court and Palace: Machiavelli and the World That He Made by Philip Bobbitt. 

Saturday 26 April 2014 / Hour 2, Block A: Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World (Hinges of History) by Thomas Cahill (1 of 4)

Saturday 26 April 2014 / Hour 2, Block B: Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World (Hinges of History) by Thomas Cahill (2 of 4)

Saturday 26 April 2014 / Hour 2, Block C: Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World (Hinges of History) by Thomas Cahill (3 of 4)

Saturday 26 April 2014 / Hour 2, Block D: Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World (Hinges of History) by Thomas Cahill (4 of 4)

Hour Three

Saturday 26 April 2014 / Hour 3, Block A: The Garments of Court and Palace: Machiavelli and the World That He Made by Philip Bobbitt (1 of 4)

Saturday 26 April 2014 / Hour 3, Block B: The Garments of Court and Palace: Machiavelli and the World That He Made by Philip Bobbitt (2 of 4)

Saturday 26 April 2014 / Hour 3, Block C: The Garments of Court and Palace: Machiavelli and the World That He Made by Philip Bobbitt (3 of 4)

Saturday 26 April 2014 / Hour 3, Block D: The Garments of Court and Palace: Machiavelli and the World That He Made by Philip Bobbitt (4 of 4)

Hour Four

Saturday 26 April 2014 / Hour 4, Block A:  Daniel Henninger, WSJ WONDER LAND, in re: Two New Saints. Now What?  Seeking an answer to messianic secularism and homicidal Islamic fundamentalism.  [more]

Saturday 26 April 2014 / Hour 4, Block B: Markos Kounlakis, Hoover, in re:   Warm Water, Cold Reality, New Frontier for Exploiting Resourcesby Markos Kounalakis. Admiral Gary Roughead.

Saturday 26 April 2014 / Hour 4, Block C: A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment by Philipp Blom (1 of 2)

Saturday 26 April 2014 / Hour 4, Block D: A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment by Philipp Blom (2 of 2)

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Hour 1 - Lord of The Rings: Fellowship of The Rings

Hour 2 - Knight & Day

Hour 3 - Inception

Hour 4 - Immortals, Battleship, Noah.