Robert Poole
Reader in History at St Martin's College Lancaster and author of Time's Alteration, Calendar Reform in Early Modern England
1 episode
Covers topics in categories such as:
The Calendar
Melvyn Bragg discusses the Roman, Babylonian, Egyptian and Jewish origins of our Gregorian calendar. Who named the concepts of days, weeks and months, and through them shaped our lives so absolutely?
19 December 2002
Also featuring: Kristen Lippincott, Peter Watson