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This charming little book follows Richard Carter as he walks and ruminates on The Moor above Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire. The Moor he te...

One of the best things about Kim Stanley Robinson's science fiction work is that he is able to project political, economic and social co...

In the 1860s the American historian Frederick Jackson Turner advanced the theory that American society was shaped by the existence of a cons...

This "explicitly feminist" book brings together a series of essays that look at the complex relationships that women had with prop...

This delightful fairy-tale is both deeper and darker than it seems at first reading. Set in the classic trope of a small medieval but magica...

What is our place in the universe and how did we come to understand it as we do? These huge questions are the subject of this short book by ...

Regular readers might notice that I've been reading books relating to the Great Indian Rebellion of 1857. The subject is one that has fa...

William Forbes-Mitchell was a Sergeant in the Ninety-Third Sutherland Highland Regiment. If you know anything about the Great Indian Rebelli...

Reading about and around the Indian Rebellion of 1857 recently I picked up an old, unread, volume on my shelf - a collection of Karl Marx a...

Having recently read William Dalrymple's history of the East India Company, The Anarchy , I was drawn back to the subject of the Great I...

Reading a blow by blow account of someone studying for a PHd might not be the most exciting of book choices, but Jonathan Slaght's accou...

The story of the East India Company is perhaps without parallel in colonial history. The rise of a minor trading company, founded in 1599, t...

Those of us who read Mike Davis' The Monster at Our Door in 2005 were perhaps more mentally prepared for the Covid-19 pandemic than ma...

*** Spoiler Alert *** Stewart Gilmour returns to Stonemouth, a small town in Aberdeenshire. Its almost seven years since he's been there...

In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution Lenin said in a November 1920 speech that Communism would be "Soviet power plus the electri...