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Reflections on WordPress – 8 months in
Posted on: 10 January 2022
On this post I’m not going to be talking about history books but instead about WordPress.com the web platform behind this website – my thoughts after having used it for 8 months now. Tune in or out...
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The Fabric of Civilization - review
Posted on: 3 January 2022
Surrounded by textiles, we’re largely oblivious to their existence and the knowledge and efforts embodied in every scrap of fabric. Virginia Postrel, The Fabric of Civilisation Any visitor to...
★★★★☆ (2020)
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Best history books of 2021
Posted on: 31 December 2021
What were the best popular history books published in hardback in 2021 in the UK? These are the best popular history books that we have read and reviewed on this site. I’m sure that there are other...
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Powers and Thrones - review
Posted on: 23 December 2021
Introduction After reading this book, I asked my dad to buy me Dan Jones' Plantagenets for Christmas. So I clearly enjoyed reading it. At 639 pages long (excluding index and bibliography) it makes...
★★★★☆ (2021)
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Fifth Sun - review
Posted on: 17 December 2021
If Flamingo Snake was going to get out of the palace alive he would have to drum with all the exuberance, the raw power that he possessed. It shouldn't even have been him leading the show: the chief...
★★★★★ (2020)
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Ravenna - review
Posted on: 10 December 2021
This is the celebrated Byzantine Emperor Justinian who is credited with reconquering the Western Roman Empire through his general Belisarius. The image itself is not from the capital Constantinople...
★★★★★ (2020)
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A Curious History of Sex - review
Posted on: 3 December 2021
Explicit prose warning! (although only when necessary.) Sex, as we all know, has been around for about two billion years or so. But we humans continue to struggle with what sex is supposed to be all...
★★★★☆ (2020)
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What is the benefit of reading history books?
Posted on: 19 November 2021
...he’s a functioning microcosm of us all. I mean, we’re all trying to find out who the hell we are, aren’t we? Jason Bourne, in Robert Ludlum’s “Bourne Identity” Grievously wounded: close to...
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Scenes from Prehistoric Life - review
Posted on: 12 November 2021
4070 years ago on the east coast of Britain a small community of about 200 people built a circular wooden palisade about 7 metres across. Right in the centre of this circle of upright timbers was an...
★★★☆☆ (2021)
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