Tom Fordham

“For he was a gentle heart and a great king and kept his oaths; and he rose out of the shadows to a last fair morning.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Our visits to museums, to gaze on such human remains, are a form of ancestor worship.”
― Alice Roberts

“The unwise man is awake all night,
and ponders everything over;
when morning comes he is weary in mind,
and all is a burden as ever.”
― Hávamál

“Perhaps the Romans were right to be wary of the formidable females of Britain -wise women, prophetesses, priestesses, Ladies, Queens; we'll never capture exactly how they saw themselves and how their communities saw them, but they appear charismatic, formidable, powerful even in death.”
― Alice Roberts, Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials