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Reading Peter Stanford's biography of Martin Luther in Wittenberg itself was a very stimulating experience. Stanford's book is the f...

Frank Norris was an American journalist and novelist active in the last few decades of the 19th century. Today he is relatively unknown, tho...

In 1361, just thirteen years after the Black Death decimated the population, another pandemic swept the British Isles. This time the disease...

In Summer 1901 some 100 men broke into the homes of thirteen trade unionists in the city of Tampa, Florida in the United States. The union a...

In A Rage in Harlem we were introduced to two of the most memorable police detectives in fiction, Coffin Ed Johnson and Gravedigger Jones. ...

A recent viewing of the Ealing Studios film Went the Day Well? (1942) led me to Penelope Houston's short book. The film itself is a rem...

Jason Hickel's latest book opens with a devastating summary of the ecological crisis. But despite this, he argues that Less is More is ...

***Spoilers *** This is a clever alternate science-fiction history that makes the space race of the 1960s the product of the machinations of...

The breadth of Peter Frankopan's historical analysis, and his dialectical approach to the environmental and societal interaction does no...

Bob Scribner's "new" social and economic history of Germany is part of an academic series of works aiming to give a detailed a...

***Spoilers*** Celestial takes us back to the days of Apollo . The early missions are over. The space race, however, isn't. The Soviets ...

Across the Airless Wilds , a history of the Lunar Rover and its voyages on the final three Apollo missions, might seem like a niche subject ...

There is no doubt that Neil Davidson's How Revolutionary were the Bourgeois Revolutions is a piece of remarkable scholarly work, and de...

Rarely does science fiction address the lives of ordinary people. Station Six is different. Set in a space station "60 million miles...

*** Spoilers *** Alastair Reynolds' standalone novels tend to be very different to the high-tech, galaxy spanning books set in his longe...

The Anabaptist movement was a significant break with established Christianity that began during the Reformation. The early Anabaptists conso...