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I found The Shock of the Anthropocene  a very interesting book that has a lot to say about the multiple environmental crises that we are cur...

This short and readable account of the Tolpuddle Martyrs focuses on the life of the key figure in their struggle, George Loveless. Loveless ...

Bloody terrible. This novel is intended as a tribute to Arthur C. Clarke, extending his classic tale A Meeting With Medusa . But it combines...

While seemingly a rather specialised topic, Martin Green's history of the neolithic, bronze and iron ages as understood through studies ...

S.A. Smith's Red Petrograd is one of the best books I've ever read in the Russian Revolution, so I had high expectations of this on...

This is the most recent serious book on the Captain Swing movement. Its author is keen to present it as the definitive work that surpasses t...

Hobsbawm and Rudé's Captain Swing is one of those books that dominates a particular historical field. Their examination of the 1830 Capt...

The Hammonds begin their account of the changes to "skilled labourers" in this period by saying it reads "like a civil war...

When I was about 10 my grandfather gave me a huge book of world mythology. Many of the accounts inside gave me real insights into the cultur...

The first volume of John Romer's history of Ancient Egypt  is a brilliant examination of the rise of the Egyptian state from hunter-gat...

Having recently read Ian W. Toll's excellent histories of World War Two in the Pacific, I decided to seek out some of the personal accou...

Philip Lymbery's Dead Zone  is a highly readable, if frightening examination of the impact of industrial agriculture on the environment,...

Written just a few days before the October Revolution of 1917 when the Provisional Government was finally evicted from office and Soviet Pow...

Any review of Liu Cixin's Death's End  has to simultaneously be a review of the whole of his trilogy. These are three interconnected...

This is a far more accessible and better written than the previous book I reviewed on this subject, Malcolm Thomis'  The Luddites . It a...

Destruction of property - the burning of ricks, maiming or killing of animals, the breaking of machinery or the burning of buildings - was l...

The title of Anatole France's 1912 novel of the French Revolution reflects a common theme for discussion of that historical event. Readi...

First published in 1968, John le Carré's novel A Small Town in Germany is one of the tightest spy thrillers I've ever read. Very li...

J.L. Hammond and Barbara Hammond's trilogy of books, collectively titled The Labourer looms large over any English historical studies of...