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2014 is the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War. It is also the 75th anniversary of the start of the Second World War. Unl...

How does the peculiar lump of grey matter in our head think? How does it store memories? How does it enable us to breathe and swallow, to h...

Robin Blackburn 's book The American Crucible is a brilliantly accessible account of the rise and fall of New World slavery. It is enga...

Steven Mithen is one of today's foremost popularisers of ancient history.  Thirst is first and foremost a book about how ancient societ...

Science fiction novels rarely retain their power after nearly a quarter of a century. Yet Gibson and Sterling's The Difference Engine re...

A 2012 report funded by the Irish Department of the Environment made the astonishing claim that earthworms contribute €723 million annually ...

2014 marks the 30th anniversary of one of the defining British struggles of the 20th century. The Miner's Strike was to determine the c...

*** Spoiler Warning *** Volume two of Robert Harris' trilogy about ancient Rome's most famous senator, lawyer and orator is a dif...

This book deals with the ideas of Revolutionary Syndicalism, ideas that were in part responsible for mass movements involving millions of wo...

The history of the British Isles has been shaped by its island nature. Yet for much of the period covered in this book, there was no formal ...

The end of the Roman Republic and the transition to the Imperial era is a fascinating period of cultural and social change, civil war, and p...

Perhaps the first thing that strikes readers of this history of the Canadian First Nations peoples, is the sheer variety of ways of life tha...

Finishing Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle feels akin to completing a long voyage. This is not simply because the trilogy weighs in at nearl...

Paul Burkett, along with John Bellamy Foster has been at the forefront of both rescuing the ecological core of Karl Marx's work and de...

While reading recently about real life pirates, I decided to read R.L. Stevenson's classic novel Treasure Island . Reading it was a f...

Karl Marx's work is often decried as being difficult or inaccessible. While it is true that some of it requires careful reading, the bas...

I suspect that most people's knowledge of the Anglo-Zulu wars consists of watching the film Zulu . In that movie, a heroic band of white...