M. R. Kessell

@mrkessell.bsky.social

Weird Artist. Writer and Illustrator of Comics. Thinks he’s funny. https://mrkessell.com

If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it. Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22

long stretch of worked roman stone on Hadrian's Wall.

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