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Fernand Braudel is one of those historians whose work looms large over his area of specialty. Braudel however was a historian whose work k...

As readers of this blog may well have gathered over the years, I am an active member of the British Socialist  Workers Party. I've bee...

Eduardo Galeano's classic history of Latin America, is not a cheerful book. Its subtitle, "five centuries of the pillage of a con...

Stephen King's recent novel, Under the Dome , is a fairly monumental piece of work. At well over 800 pages, it is a hefty book to read...

Harry Harrison's novel A Transatlantic Tunnel Hurrah! (also known as Tunnel Through the Deeps ) is a forgotten classic of steampunk a...

There is a particular literary tradition in England, of books that recount life in the countryside, or on farms. Some of these are justifi...

Christopher Hill's biography of Oliver Cromwell is less of the history of the man, and more a history of the world that shaped him and...

The idea that there is an alternative, hidden, secret London just out of sight of the tourist filled streets is not a new one. In fact, th...

Produced by the National Museum of Wales, this is a lavishly illustrated, short but comprehensive guide to a distinctive period of Welsh h...

Partly because of its setting, this is an unusual detective story. Set in the midst of the ruins of Berlin in the immediate aftermath of t...

The Battle of the Little Bighorn is one of those historical events that inspires endless books, articles and obsession. Towards the end o...

Peter Fryer's history of prudery begins by pointing out that the Roman Cicero advised his friends not to say, "little pavements...

First published in 1978, this book by John Molyneux helped convince a layer of socialists that they needed to be part of a revolutionary par...

In the introduction to my edition of this novel, Chandler's biographer tells us that the author was drunk and depressed for most of th...

There will probably never be an end to the publication of books about World War Two. The sheer scale and horror of the conflict, combined ...

The election of Lula as President of Brazil in 2003 was one of a series of left wing shocks that shook Latin America in the early to mid-...

Charles Darwin is one of those people whose lives inspire in all sorts of ways. His work on evolution is one part of this, his insights an...