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In 1889 nearly 3,000 workers at Silver's, an enormous factory in East London, in Silvertown went on strike. The men and women who walked...

Despite it's short length, John Sturt's Revolt in the West gives an excellent over-view of the events that took place in South-Weste...

One of the surprising things I found while reading Aurora, is that all the reviews I had read managed to not give away the central plot twis...

Throughout much of the 19th century the British government was fearful of revolution. In every dark corner, every working men's pub and ...

Flora Thompson's account of her childhood and early adult years in the semi-fictionalised hamlet of Lark Rise and then the village of Ca...

The election of the socialist Jeremy Corbyn to the leadership of the British Labour Party in September 2015 should have made every revoluti...

In reading and writing about the various historical rebellions that have taken place in the British Isles in the pre-capitalist era, it is n...

Judith Orr's new book is an answer to a conundrum. As she asks on the very first page, Why are women, half the human race, still dis...

There's little to cheer the reader of Solzhenitsyn's account of a single day in a Soviet gulag. It's a stark, brutal tale of a d...

Touch follows Claire North's brilliant and extremely successful novel,  The First Fifteen Lives of  Harry August , which played delightf...

In recent years there has been a intense discussion about the ideas of the Russian revolutionary Lenin. Some of this has its roots in the cl...

The finches of the Galapagos Islands are the poster animals for Charles Darwin's ideas. On Darwin's voyage he shot and identified a...

*Warning Spoilers*  To what extent are those that do not speak out guilty when atrocities happen? This is one of the themes of this very ...

This short book is a detailed contribution to the discussion on responses to the question of the poor in early modern England. The question ...

1549 was an extraordinary year. England was ruled by the Duke of Somerset, standing in for Edward, Henry VIII's son who had not yet reac...

In my reviews of books on early modern rebellion's such as the Pilgrimage of Grace and the Western Rising , I've noted that the que...