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After several recent dives into the early history of written science-fiction (see here and here , for instance) I decided to look into more...

This is an interesting early attempt to grapple with colonialism through science fiction. First published in 1960 it turns some of the trope...

Gordon Childe was one of the foremost popular left intellectuals of the 20th century. He was a prolific author, and his books aimed at a pop...

In 1906 Leon Trotsky published Results and Prospects. The article was written in the aftermath of the 1905 Russian Revolution and summarised...

Willie Gavin, Crofter Man , is the second of David Kerr Cameron's trilogy about history and social life in the Scottish countryside. In ...

This updated classic historical guide to Orkney is the perfect book to read if you are lucky enough to visit the islands. Caroline Wickham-J...

Brian Manning's 1649 is about a seminal year in world history, the year of the English Revolution. It was a year that began with the exe...

Forests are one of the world's most important biological reserves. They suck about a third of humanity's carbon emissions out of the...

John W. Campbell's editorship of Astounding magazine from 1938 till the end of the Second World War marks the Golden Age of Science Fic...

Harry Harrison's 1966 novel Make Room! Make Room! is perhaps best known for the Hollywood film  Soylent Green that was loosely based on...

If you spend much time in the history sections of secondhand bookshops, two books frequently appear - Vere Gordon Childe's Man Makes Him...

There really ought to be warnings on these books. 1144 pages long and it turns out it's only part one! Despite the disappointment at the...

In 1938 the four-masted sailing ship Moshulu left Belfast to sail to Australia. Early the next year it returned home to England, its cargo ...