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One of Pieter Breugal's most memorable paintings is Het Luilekkerland , known in English as The Land of Cockaigne . It portrays a myst...

There are some surprising insights in Keith Thomas' study of how English attitudes to nature changed over time. One of them is that th...

I am very surprised that it has taken me this long to discover and read this truly unusual science fiction novel. Perhaps this is because I ...

George Macaulay Trevelyan's English Social History is a classic work. Finished in the years leading up to World War Two it reflects t...

A few years ago someone produced a red t-shirt in the style of a star trek uniform, the word expendable written across the chest. The run...

Over a quarter of a century after it was first published, and despite repeated re-readings, Silence of the Lambs still has the power to grip...

David W. Anthony has produced an important, stimulating and very detailed book. It is likely, for those interested in the origins of languag...

This fascinating collection of writings and speeches is the perfect antidote to those that want to downplay the anti-war feelings that exist...

In his introduction to this classic historical work, Rodney Hilton makes the point that a precondition of the existence of peasantry "a...

Until I picked up this old autobiography, I knew nothing abut Dick Gregory. Today he is relatively well known in the United States for his c...

The UK's commemoration of the centenary of the start of World War One has so far mostly focused on the same old tired stereotypes of a c...

The cowardly murder of Wat Tyler 15 June 1381 Philip Lindsay and Reg Groves' 1950 history of the 1381 Peasants' Revolt is a clas...

Peter Linebaugh has been one of those historians who over the last few decades has rescued the history of some of the most marginalised an...

At the outset, I should say that this is a challenging book. It deals with debates and polemics within the academic world of social theory t...

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...