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In late 1940 Julia White arrived in a small village in Wiltshire. She was as old as the century and she had dreamed for most of her life of ...

The American war in Vietnam was, says author Joe Allen, the "greatest military defeat ever suffered by the United States". In the ...

The idea of a secret world adjacent to our own is a compelling one in fantasy. In Alan Moore's new book, The Great When , the first of a...

The first time I went to the United States in the very early 1990s, when I told anyone I was a space and astronomy enthusiast, everyone want...

I don't often review academic journals on this reading blog, but this special issue of History of the Present caught my eye. Despite t...

In 1968 Enoch Powell made an odious speech in which he predicted "rivers of blood" if immigration to Britain was not halted. In t...

I must admit that I picked up Sally Rooney's book Normal People because of the reaction from some quarters about her comments on suppor...

In the late nineteenth century Germany was straining at the boundaries of its borders. Most of the Global South had been carved up by Europe...