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Posted on: 26 September 2024

History book prizes divide opinion - how can you ever fairly decide on a 'best' book? What does best even mean? And how come my book didn't win? Personally I like them. Even trying to keep tabs on all...

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When he got to the dance floor, Axayacatl lifted up one foot, completely happy in hearing the music, and began to dance and move in circles.

Review of Camilla Townsend, Fifth Sun

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Tracks on the Ocean - review

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Posted on: 20 September 2024

Back in 2001 Maddox Von Ranke and I were in a small Moroccan mountain village, planning an ascent of Mount Toubkal. Mount Toubkal is the highest mountain in North Africa (I believe) and we had...

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Flint Tools Field Guide - review

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Posted on: 6 September 2024

Light. Dark. Light. Dark. Dry. Wet. Cold. Dry. Warm. Time passes. I lie on my back looking up. The sky. Clouds pass. An ant scuttles over me. A foot passes by. A bicycle tyre swishes past. Time...

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Posted on: 1 September 2024

A good line up this month - I'm always happy to see geographical and temporal spread in the selection! For the first time since I have been keeping track there is a popular history book on the history...

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Posted on: 31 August 2024

This post discusses the website upgrading work I have done on the All Books page, which shows all recent history books published in the UK and allows you to search them. You might not notice the...

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After 1177 B.C. - review

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Posted on: 27 August 2024

And Gandalf said: โ€˜...The Third Age of the world is ended, and the new age is begun; and it is your task to order its beginning and to preserve what may be preserved. For though much has been saved,...

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Posted on: 1 August 2024

I'm off on holiday for a couple of weeks now so posting this round-up a few days before month end - but don't worry I will add on any July history book stragglers into the August post! With that said,...

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Kingdom of Characters - review

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Posted on: 5 July 2024

Every year or so I travel to China with my family, to see my wifeโ€™s parents, siblings, nephews and nieces in the town of Fanshi. In the month before we leave I have another go at polishing up my...

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Posted on: 1 July 2024

Nearly all of the 12 popular history books (published in the UK) I found from June 2024 are focussed on Europe, except for a near miss with a history of Jersulem, and a work on history and human...

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Discovering Pompeii - review

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Posted on: 7 June 2024

It was just after midday. The sun was high in the sky and radiating heat over the Roman town. Most people sought shade, perhaps beneath a portico or under a tree. The family of four hurried down the...

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Posted on: 1 June 2024

12 to add to the pile from last month with a common theme of colonial conflict - from Yale and Slavery, encounters between indigenous Australian people and the British, the Spice Trade, and the direct...

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