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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Paul McGarr & Alex Callinicos - Marxism and the Great French Revolution

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This book is actually a reprint of a special edition of the International Socialist Journal . Published near the 200th anniversary of the Fr...
Thursday, June 11, 2015

Jean Jaurès - A Socialist History of the French Revolution

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The French Revolution was a profoundly important historical event. But just saying this can underestimate its impact. The Revolution didn...
Tuesday, June 02, 2015

Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine

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Naomi Klein's recent book This Changes Everything has helped reignite the climate movement and radical discussion of the environment and...
Saturday, May 23, 2015

Antonia Fraser - The Six Wives of Henry VIII

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This meticulous study of Henry VIII's six wives is a fascinating examination of the position and role of ruling class women in Tudor soc...
Wednesday, May 06, 2015

Mark Everard - Breathing Space: The Natural and Unnatural History of Air

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Mark Everard's new book covers a neglected topic in environmentalism. Given the importance of air to us personally, as well as wider eco...
Sunday, April 26, 2015

Eamon Duffy - The Voices of Morebath: Reformation & Rebellion in an English Village

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Eamon Duffy's classic book The Voices of Morebath is an extraordinary and unique study of Tudor society undergoing dramatic transformati...
Thursday, April 16, 2015

Gregory Benford & Larry Niven - Shipstar

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Some sort of compulsive behaviour drove me to read  Shipstar after I had denounced the first part of the two volume story. Its predecessor,...
Sunday, April 12, 2015

Geoffrey Moorhouse - The Pilgrimage of Grace

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The Pilgrimage of Grace in 1536-7 was one of the most important Tudor rebellions. It is relatively unknown, yet the tens of thousands of reb...
Saturday, April 11, 2015

Foster, Clark & York - Critique of Intelligent Design: Materialism versus Creationism, From Antiquity to the Present

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Intelligent Design has yet to make a significant impact on politics in the United Kingdom. But it has an acceptance in the United States w...
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Monday, March 30, 2015

Thomas Keneally - The People's Train

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This fictionalised account of the life of Russian Revolutionary Fyodor Sergeyev is one of the best portrayals I have read of the experience...
Friday, March 20, 2015

Frederick Taylor - Dresden: Tuesday 13 February 1945

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After reading this detailed, balanced and incredibly well written account of the destruction of Dresden in 1945, I am left with no doubt in ...
Thursday, March 12, 2015

Anne Alexander & Mostafa Bassiouny - Bread, Freedom, Social Justice: Workers & the Egyptian Revolution

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The overriding image that many people have of the Egyptian Revolution that began on January 25 2011 is of the thousands of people gathering ...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Gregory Benford & Larry Niven - Bowl of Heaven

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Larry Niven's Ringworld was the original Big Dumb Object of science fiction. In that eponymous novel his characters explored a giant ri...
Monday, March 02, 2015

Juliet Barker - Agincourt

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The Battle of Agincourt has been much mythologised by the English. Part of the fault is Shakespeare's who used it to create an image of ...
Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Christopher Dyer - Making a Living in the Middle Ages: The People of Britain 850-1520

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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...