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The author of this blog is Trevor Pateman. I have purchased all the books reviewed here except a very few noted as sent to me. My own books are cheapest at blackwells.co.uk and are usually on Amazon. I can be found at academia.edu but do not have an X account and never used Twitter; that is another Trevor Pateman. I can be contacted at patemantrevor at gmail. com

Wednesday, 10 June 2026

Paul Johnson Challenging Inequalities

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  This is not a long book,190 pages plus the usual footnote proof of due diligence, but it’s very repetitive and could be summarised in 60...
Sunday, 31 May 2026

A.G. Hopkins, The Land Where Nothing Works

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  I wanted this to be a good book and admired the author’s conscientious work in putting together an economic and political history of Bri...
Thursday, 23 April 2026

Tears in Parliament: the Assassination of Spencer Perceval 1813

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  I suspect there is only a small anthology to be assembled around the theme of tears shed in Parliament and I have only a small contributio...
Friday, 6 February 2026

Imaobong Umoren A New History of Britain and the Caribbean

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    Readers, like me, of popular and semi-popular history currently have a choice of two main genres both to be found on Waterstone tabl...
Wednesday, 10 December 2025

Zeinab Badawi An African History of Africa

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  I bought this book because I know next to nothing of Africa’s history; I guess I am one of many such purchasers. So how can I review it? ...
Friday, 17 October 2025

Trevor Pateman, Not In The Archives: Personal Letters 1800 -1840

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This is a draft introduction to an anthology of over fifty previously unpublished letters which I have transcribed during the past eighteen ...
Saturday, 27 September 2025

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  Christmas in Bethlehem December 1995 When in Israel at Christmas the place to go must be Bethlehem, especially in the year when the Is...
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