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The Bone Chests - review
Posted on: 18 May 2025
Lads on tour... On 14 December 1642, Parliamentarian soldiers fighting in the early stages of the English Civil War stormed into Winchester Cathedral, wreaking havoc. Like many cathedrals in England,...
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New history books in April 2025
Posted on: 1 May 2025
Here are the history books published (in hardback) in the UK last month. They were a little harder to track down this month, with only nine on the list. The two that I have my eye on are: Mythica:...
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The Library of Ancient Wisdom - review
Posted on: 29 April 2025
Let me speak of my crimes! l wail, I cannot hold back my sobs. In the bedroom there is weeping. In lament and wailing I suffer every day. Lord, bitterly I raise a cry to you, hear me! Ashurbanipal,...
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New history books in March 2025
Posted on: 1 April 2025
A round up of the new popular history books published in March in the UK (hardback, reasonably priced). A fairly disparate set of which I am investigating: The Golden Throne: The Rule of Suleyman...
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The Great Siege of Malta - review
Posted on: 7 March 2025
If you really want to offend a Knight of the Order of St John I would recommend the βalapaβ. This seems to have been an open handed slap (presumably to the face) and is described by Marcus Bull in The...
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New history books in February 2025
Posted on: 1 March 2025
Some attractive looking books published in February 2025 (UK, Hardback), with a unusually high proportion focussed on ancient history, and in particular Mesopotamian history. I love all this stuff, as...
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The Knights Templar - review
Posted on: 28 February 2025
It is a curious fact that there have been more books written about the Knights Templar than the number of Knights Templar that ever existed.1 The Knights Templar: History and Mystery by Tony McMahon...
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Only weeks before Charles II was invited to return to England, many still thought that a restoration was inconceivable.
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The Eagle and the Hart - review
Posted on: 16 February 2025
This new book on Richard II and Henry IV, by Helen Castor (a former Cambridge fellow and TV broadcaster, specialising in English medieval and Tudor history) is a gripping drama of two closely...
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Republic - review
Posted on: 9 February 2025
The waiting is over. The soldiers on each side have finally marched into position, carrying their long pikes which they now lower to create an impenetrable wall of spikes. Many of the men are past...
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New history books in January 2025
Posted on: 3 February 2025
I spotted 14 new history books in the wild last month (in the UK, in hardback). I always like to see a diversity of topics and periods, and this batch has a good range, from the ancient Mediterranean...
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The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages - review
Posted on: 25 January 2025
The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages Shane Bobrycki, assistant professor of medieval history at the University of Vienna1, has written an excellent short (177 page) book about early medieval Europe,...
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