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Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Bill Gammage - The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia

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In The German Ideology Marx and Engels write "nature, the nature that preceded human history...is nature which today no longer exist...
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Tuesday, February 25, 2020

C.J.Sansom - Heartstone

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*** Spoilers *** By the time you've reached the fifth volume of CJ Sansom's books about the Tudor lawyer Matthew Shardlake you r...
Thursday, February 20, 2020

Matthew Cobb - Life's Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code

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There are some iconic "races" in scientific history. US President Kennedy's 1962 challenge to put a "man" on the m...
Monday, February 17, 2020

Carys Davies - West

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What happens when a passing fancy becomes an obsession? It's something that many novels have dealt with but few perhaps do it with suc...
Thursday, February 13, 2020

David Miles - The Tale of the Axe: How the Neolithic Revolution Transformed Britain

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I've been looking forward to reading The Tale of the Axe for some time as there is a lack of popular studies of the stone age tools th...
Monday, February 10, 2020

John Wyndham - Jizzle

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As a big fan of John Wyndham I was very pleased to discover this collection of short-stories that I was previously unaware of. First publi...
Tuesday, February 04, 2020

Angela Saini - Superior: The Return of Race Science

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The election, and re-election, of right-wing governments around the world has encouraged the growth and confidence of racists and fascists...
Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Stephen King - Elevation

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Having thoroughly enjoyed Stephen King's most recent full length novel The Institute I was excited to see this novella in the shops. ...
Monday, January 27, 2020

Max Hastings - Vietnam: An Epic History of a Tragic War

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Max Hastings is not a natural ally of the left. He is, after all, a former editor of the pro-Tory newspapers the Daily Telegraph and the L...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Camilla Royle - A Rebel's Guide to Engels

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2020 is the bicentenary of the birth of the great revolutionary Friedrich Engels. The anniversary is likely to see numerous articles, pamp...
Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Carl J. Griffin & Briony McDonagh - Remembering Protest in Britain since 1500: Memory, Materiality & the Landscape

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2019 was a very interesting year to be a socialist in Manchester. The bicentenary of the Peterloo Massacre in 1819 was marked by a plethor...
Wednesday, January 08, 2020

Jeff Sparrow - Fascists Among Us: Online hate and the Christchurch Massacre

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This new book by Australian socialist Jeff Sparrow is an important contribution to understanding fascist movements in the 21st century. It...
Friday, January 03, 2020

Ian Cameron - Red Duster, White Ensign

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The battle for Malta during the Second World War was a key strategic question for the Allies and Axis powers. Malta had, for centuries, be...
Thursday, January 02, 2020

Nick Ashton-Jones - Landscape, Wealth & Dispossession Part 2: Feudalism

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Part two of Nick Ashton-Jones projected six volume study of the British Landscape and the way it has been shaped and used by various human...
Monday, December 30, 2019

Georges Duby - The Age of the Cathedrals: Art & Society 980-1420

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Georges Duby's The Age of the Cathedrals is a classic work that shows how the development of feudalism transformed the sacred art of ...
Sunday, December 29, 2019

Nick Ashton-Jones - Landscape, Wealth & Dispossession Part 1: Humanity

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The first part of Nick Ashton-Jones projected six volume study of the British landscape and the way it has been shaped and used by various...