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Re-reading Missee Lee  after a break of perhaps 30 years, I am struck by how very different it is from the other books in Ransomes' chil...

This is an exceptionally detailed and informative study, well written and compelling. Despite its scope, Mark Mazower manages to make sure t...

The story of the pioneers who travelled from the American mid-west to Oregon and California from 1840 onwards is one suitable for a grand re...

This is a good introductory book to the history and context of Kett's Rebellion, the large agrarian uprising that shook East Anglia in 1...

This short book is an excellent example of how large scale historical changes can be examined through the microcosm a relatively small geogr...

Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia  completely revived the market for travel books. Becoming the bible for thousands of South American backpac...

There is something about a book of this scope that almost defies reviewing. How can a reviewer do justice to a work which spans in enormous ...

I read Andreas Malm's Fossil Capital while travelling to and from Paris to participate in counter-conferences and protests at the time ...

The Thirty Years War ran from 1618 to 1648. It was a barbaric time of famine, plague, pillage, rape and endless violence. Millions of people...

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...