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The Tomb Builders is a companion book to Shadowland . Both deal with very distinct, but linked periods of ancient history. They concentra...

Taking it's title from Frederick Engels' description of Salford, The Classic Slum is part social history, part autobiography and ...

Richard Morgan is best known for his gritty, violent, near-future novels, usually set in a universe where Earth's multinationals hold ...

In December 1912, Charles Dawson and Arthur Woodward announced an enormous scientific discovery to a packed lecture room. Hundreds of scie...

When groups of environmental campaigners gather together, it does not take long for China to come up in discussion. Frequently this is in ...

Stella Gibbon's Cold Comfort Farm is one of those novels that has outgrown the object of its lampoon. Who today reads Mary Webb? Her p...

Unnoticed to the vast majority of people in the world, there is an enormous "grab" of land taking place. Much of the reason for ...

Raymond Challinor was a long standing British revolutionary socialist. He was also an accomplished historian, and a brilliant writer. Sadl...

Somehow I'd missed Richard Morgan's science fiction novel Black Man. Perhaps this was because his previous book Market Forces did...

Early in the 1800s, just after the French Revolution, Benjamin Thompson who was know as Count Rumford created an ingenious experiment to ...

Volume four of Philip José Farmer's Riverworld series begins with a short author's forward, "Now ends the Riverworld series, ...

Here in western Europe we are apt to forget that both World Wars took place over a vast expanse of the globe. In particular World War One ...

Part history and part biography, The Soap Man is an impressive account of the clash of two modes of production. Lord Leverhulme the indus...

Capitalism is a fossil fuel system. For historical as well as economic and physical reasons fossil fuels have fuelled the system's acc...

Regular readers of the blog will know that I've recently fallen in love with the novels of Neil Gaiman. I certainly rank American Gods...

After reading Stalingrad it seems inadequate to describe the battle in the way so many military histories do. While it was "the turn...