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In January 1848, Francesco Bagnasco, a radical Scilian who believed in the "universal regeneration" of society in the face of ineq...

Everything that I have written about the first three volumes of Jonathan Sumption's epic history of the Hundred Years War is also true o...

This little book is simultaneously a piece of art and a historical document. Of the 108 pages, just forty or so are given over to the piece ...

In the year to June 2023 Britain saw around 4.1 million strike days . Traditionally these days are described by the media and the government...

Outside of the radical left  The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte is not one of Karl Marx's best  known works. This is a shame, b...

Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray was a participant in the revolutionary Paris Commune of 1871. He is popularly supposed to have been "the las...

In March 1871 the workers of Paris seized control of their city and declared the Paris Commune. It was an event that through its radical, de...

This collection of essays by Henry Heller builds, and in part incorporates, his earlier work on the French Revolution. In previous books and...

Volume three of Jonathan Sumption's epic history of the Hundred Years War deals with a neglected period of the conflict. This is the per...

Reading Jean Froissart's Chronicles of the Hundred Years War recently I was struck by the vehemence with which he describes participan...

Until reading Organic Resistance I had a crude explanation for why it is that the food culture of European countries like France was so muc...

There is a famous quote from Hegel from 1806 when he saw the Napoleon Bonaparte after his capture of Jena. "I saw the Emperor – this w...

Trial by Battle is the first book in a multi-volume epic history of the Hundred Years War between France and England. It's a detailed h...