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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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Conquered - review

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Posted on: 24 May 2024

This is a fascinating description of what happened to certain Anglo-Saxon (and Anglo-Danish) individuals and families in the years immediately following the Norman Conquest. But as the author herself...

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Posted on: 21 May 2024

This website started in May 2021, three years ago today. This post is a reflection on how it is all going: what it has achieved, what it has not, what may be still to come. This is split into two...

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