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Georges Duby's The Age of the Cathedrals is a classic work that shows how the development of feudalism transformed the sacred art of ...

The first part of Nick Ashton-Jones projected six volume study of the British landscape and the way it has been shaped and used by various...

Dark Emu is a remarkable book that deserves to be widely read and discussed. Firstly it is a fascinating discussion of the history and cu...

With The Institute  Stephen King makes a big return to his classic form. The novel is a page-turner, building up from an unassuming start ...

Many people have recently re-read W.H. Hudson's book A Shepherd's Life because it is mentioned early on in James Rebanks' mor...

After the Flood is the latest bestseller inspired by the contemporary environmental crisis. The novel is set in the near future when a cat...

Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth is one of the most popular novels around today - a blockbuster that grew famous through word o...

This charming account of a campaign of local people to stop Shell building a refinery and gas pipeline through the glorious coastal landscap...

For those of us brought up on a particularly British history education the Normans were something that happened to England in 1066 and ver...

An ambitious and unusual novel, The March is set during General Sherman's march across the southern states of America towards the end ...

In this exciting new book Rosamond Faith sets out to answer an important, but often neglected question - why did peasants in the middle ag...

The end of 2019 has seen a growing " global revolt " in countries as varied as Hong Kong, Chile, Iraq, Ecuador, Catalonia and Le...

The parallels between the rise of the far-right in Europe in the 1930s and today, with far-right and fascist figures and organisations gai...

I was motivated to re-read Class Struggles in Eastern Europe by two anniversaries. The first was the 30th anniversary of the fall of the ...

The Searchers is an iconic Western which, in many ways, has come to exemplify the myth of the West itself. A land of huge open spaces, of...

Walt, the last surviving bodyguard of King Harold, roams Europe in the aftermath of William the Bastard's invasion of England in 1066....

Say the word "Viking" and most people in Britain will immediately think of raids. murder and pillaging, and possibly, rememberin...

In this wide-ranging history authors Peter Ackerman and Jack Duvall attempt to demonstrate that nonviolent strategies are the most success...