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English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages was first published in 1889. As a work of historical investigation it wouldn't pass a modern e...

In Capital Karl Marx denounced the enclosure of common lands as a crime: " The parliamentary form of the robbery is that of Acts for e...

The English Civil War was not simply the story of a series of sieges, set piece battles and skirmishes. It was a revolutionary conflict that...

Michael Roberts'  The Long Depression is an accessible and important work of Marxist political economy. I'd rank it close to Chris ...

First published in 1906 this is an important study of the ideas of one of the most important radical thinkers of the English Revolution, Ger...

The Pacific theatre in World War Two was in every sense an imperialist conflict. Two emerging powers were vying for the region's resourc...

Re-reading some of Iain Banks' works I'm constantly reminded how much we have lost with his untimely death. His science fiction, and...

This review was first published in Socialist Review 418 November 2016 . The execution of Charles I in January 1649 terrified the kings and...

I was struck while reading The Dead of Jericho that Inspector Morse isn't actually a very nice bloke. In fact, he's actually a bully...

John F. Richards' book The World Hunt is actually four chapters from a larger work called The Unending Frontier . The four chapters dea...

Marx and the Earth is a detailed and vigorous defence and reassertion of the classical Marxist position in regards to Marx's Ecology. ...

There's an old propaganda image (see below) that shows the Bolshevik leaders from 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution, listing the ...

This study of the part of the Highland Clearances that took place on the Sutherland Estate in the first quarter of the 19th century makes fo...

This compelling, if confusing novel spans the darkest years of the twentieth century, from the beginning of the First World War, to the afte...

This is an important work of history which reminds us of the extensive class battles that took place between some of the poorest inhabitants...

Given the popularity of this, the first of Stieg Larsson's Millenium Trilogy, a long review seems somewhat pointless. I arrive at it aft...

This is a fascinating anthropological study of a relatively small society in East New Britain, a province of Papua New Guinea. While the stu...