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The events of the 1926 British General Strike aren’t an issue for abstract historical discussion; they are, more importantly, an example of...

I don’t normally carry reviews of journals that I read on this blog, as they don’t really fit the general theme of the site. However the Jul...

When I first looked at this book, I thought that it was a classic case of a journalist with a bit of knowledge about one part of the world, ...

Something struck me towards the end of this classic crime novel - no one in James Ellroy's world is "good". Everyone has a fla...

Early on in this new book on the Taj Mahal, the author makes the point that the building has reached a level of recognition in the popular c...

There is an oft quoted rhetorical question from Monty Python's Life of Brian, which goes something like "So, apart from the aquedu...

How was it that Winston Churchill described the former Soviet Union? "A riddle wrapped up in an enigma". That is a very good desc...

This, the most recent addition to Bookmarks' "Rebel's Guide" series, is slightly different than the earlier books. Rather ...

The title Conquered City is a multi-layered one. It refers, in the most, to the great city of St. Petersberg, conquered in the first success...

Cuba is an enigma for many people. For some, it is a socialist country, dedicated to the world revolution. For others it is simply a beautif...

One of my favourite science fiction novels, is Earth Abides by George R. Stewart. His book imagines the way the world develops as the an u...

For all revolutionaries, being able to imagine a future society is very important. This isn't simply because we need to have something t...

There is a narrow sub-genre of Science Fiction that I love - archaeologists in space I like to know it as - this is the type of Science Fict...

The aftermath of the Second World War brought a plethora of memoirs of wartime experiences. Popular amongst these where books about the exp...

Unusually for an MP, or indeed a local government councillor, Phil Piratin didn’t believe that political change came from Town Halls or even...

As with the other books in the " Wonders of the World " series, Simon Goldhill concentrates on a single building from history, and...

Volume two of Stephen King's seven part "Dark Tower" series is a very different beast to volume one. This is a good thing, as ...

The idea that the humble planet could change the course of Earth's geological history is difficult to imagine. That plants have changed ...

There are few classic works of science fiction written in the 1960s that survive so well into modern times as “The Stars My Destination”. Th...

Few readers can have failed to have heard the basic tenets of Gulliver's Travels. Written in the 1700s, it follows the voyages of Lemue...