Wednesday, 29 April 2020

Review: J Land Barbara Hammond, The Village Labourer 1760 - 1832

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There is something to be said for old fashioned historical prose, the sort which was written before the university institutionalisat...
Tuesday, 7 April 2020

Review: Yrsa Daley-Ward, The Terrible

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I read this book at one sitting (rare) and had no real quibbles (also rare). True, it’s not quite as big a read as its 208 pages mig...
Monday, 23 March 2020

No Review Really Needed: Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott, Swan Song

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Gossip is a dish best served hot. True, it can sometimes be re-heated: how else explain the continuing fascinat...
Saturday, 21 March 2020

Surely a Great Time to Read Trevor Pateman Between Remembering and Forgetting ....

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 Click on Image to Magnify A linked set of twenty six essays exploring topics around individual and collective memory. There are di...
Friday, 20 March 2020

Review: Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

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In Ruritania, there are many ranks, orders, and medals. An elderly gentleman commonly known as Prince Charles but whose full title ...
Friday, 6 March 2020

Review: Douglas Murray, The Madness of Crowds

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Very few, if any, societies have ever  arrived at a workable and sustainable consensus about how to distribute desirable scarce good...
Sunday, 1 March 2020

Review: Daniel Immerwahr How To Hide an Empire

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I recall from fifty years ago trying to explain to a class of fifteen year olds who had me as their (unqualified) History teacher that ...