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How to achieve (historical) immortality - on a budget
Posted on: 14 October 2022
What we do in life echoes in eternity... So said Maximus in the film Gladiator way back in the year 2000. The trouble is that for most of us these echoes are going to be pretty feeble, lasting (at...
opinion
Cartooning China - review
Posted on: 7 October 2022
These half civilised governments such as those in China Portugal and Spanish America all require a Dressing every eight or Ten years to keep them in order... They care little for words and they must...
β β β ββ (2022)
review
New history books in September 2022
Posted on: 1 October 2022
Thirteen new history books identified this month. No doubt they are all good but to pick out a few: Olando Figes does his bit to enlighten us all with his The Story of Russia. As I had noted earlier...
new books
In the Reign of King John - review
Posted on: 23 September 2022
Nowadays we suffer from deforestation. In the 13th Century England had an afforestation problem. More and more of the country was being forested and people were - literally - up in arms about it. What...
β β β β β (2020)
review
Happy Dreams of Liberty - review
Posted on: 11 September 2022
Their freedom papers will only be a pass to want and misery... they have happy dreams of liberty... but if they could realise, as clearly as I do, how much more happy they would be back on an...
β β β ββ (2022)
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New history books in August 2022
Posted on: 1 September 2022
I was pleasantly surprised by the selection of history books over August 2022: expecting a summer holiday month lull, there are actually quite a few good 'uns, as you can see from the covers...
new books
Dominion - review
Posted on: 12 August 2022
Lady Elizabeth of Hungary was a young lady who had it all. Daughter of King Andrew II of Hungary, she had been successfully married off at 14 to a German Duke - a husband she seems to have been...
β β β β β (2019)
review
New history books in July 2022
Posted on: 1 August 2022
Not so many new history books this month, but no doubt the quality is still up there! A few which have piqued my interest are: Two Houses Two Kingdoms: A History of France and England, 1100β1300...
new books
Book reviews and culture wars - an interview with Suleiman the Magnificent
Posted on: 8 July 2022
We were recently lucky enough to talk to Suleiman the Magnificent who I was particular keen to quiz on the subject of negative βculture warβ book reviews on Amazon. The recording itself got corrupted...
opinion
New history books in June 2022
Posted on: 1 July 2022
What's new this month? We've got 14 history books on our 'just published' list, four of which have picqued my interest... A History of Delusions: The Glass King, a Substitute Husband and a Walking...
new books
Making History - review
Posted on: 24 June 2022
The study of history is a funny beast: on the one hand everything is history, given that by the time we put fingers to keyboard, we are commenting on the past. On the other hand βhistoryβ can mean an...
β β β ββ (2022)
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The Ottomans - review
Posted on: 17 June 2022
How did an obscure thirteenth century Anatolian beylik emerge as a vast continent-spanning Ottoman empire? How then did it come to wither away in the nineteenth century, with its eventual replacement...
β β β β β (2021)
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