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Monday, February 16, 2026

Alyssa Battistoni - Free Gifts: Capitalism and the politics of nature

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In 1875 Karl Marx wrote a devastating critique of the programme of the United Workers’ Party of Germany. In its opening paragraph he dismiss...
Saturday, February 14, 2026

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - Not A Nation of Immigrants: Settler colonialism, white supremacy & a history of erasure & exclusion

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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a leading historian of settler colonialism in the Americas and the history of indigenous people and their struggles....
Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Brian W. Dippie - Custer's Last Stand: The anatomy of an American myth

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In 1876 George Armstrong Custer's forces attacked a Native American village. In the battle that followed around half of his troops, incl...

Claire North - Slow Gods

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Claire North has a gift for unusual stories that usually meld fantastical elements (humans who relive their lives over and again; people who...
Friday, January 30, 2026

Charlie Kimber & Judy Cox - Revisiting the General Strike of 1926: When workers were ready to dare

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On day in May 1926 when my grandfather was on his way home from school in Plymouth, he was astounded to see a tram tipped over by a crowd of...
Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Len Deighton - Horse Under Water

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*** Spoilers ***  Len Deighton's follow up to The Ipcress File begins in the same seedy post-war Europe that the first novel did. The an...
Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Ivan Doig - Ride With Me, Mariah Montana

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Ride With Me, Mariah Montana is the final volume in Ivan Doig's English Creek trilogy. It's a sweeping history of Monata set in Do...
Thursday, January 22, 2026

Sheldon Krasowski - No Surrender: The land remains Indigenous

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Between 1871 and 1921 a series of so called "numbered treaties" were signed between the First Nations of Canada and the (settler) ...