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The common perception of Medieval society is of an unchanging, backward economy, dominated by a peasantry who had little influence or desire...

There have been few contemporary works that have dealt in detail with the Jack Cade rebellion of 1450, which makes I.M.W. Harvey's book ...

A Paradise Built in Hell ought to be read widely. All the latest climate change science suggests that the world is going to experience incre...

If one theme dominates David Green's history of the Hundred Years War above all others, it is change. Changes to the lives of those who ...

John Wyndham is perhaps best known for his book The Day of the Triffids. But equally popular when first published in 1953 was another disa...

The struggle of workers to be in unions, or to have the right to form unions, has never been an easy one. Employers through the ages have fo...

I once heard the veteran British Marxist Chris Harman point out, that despite Bourgeois rhetoric, nation-states were flexible things. The e...

Having thoroughly enjoyed Karen Maitland's novel The Owl Killers I thought I'd try her earlier book,  Company of Liars,  set during...

Marx and Nature is a challenging, but very important book for all those concerned with developing and acting on the ecological insights in ...

The 1871 Paris Commune represented a new stage in working class struggle. For the first time ordinary people had taken control of a city a...

Its been a while since Neil Gaiman has written a novel for adults and while The Ocean at the End of the Lane  is a great read, it lacks some...

This is a superb book and a must for anyone trying to understand the dynamics of medieval history in Europe. Jean Gimpel rescues us from the...

Barrington Moore Jnr's Social Origins  is one of those books that always seems to pop up in bibliographies. It is a sweeping work, that ...

The historical development of agriculture fundamentally transformed human societies. The surplus generated by farming could, for the first t...