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About Time - review
Posted on: 10 September 2021
Clocks are about more than just telling the time. At one level this is a statement of the obvious: we all know that the watch you wear is not chosen purely for its practicality as a time-keeping...
β β β β β (2021)
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Thebes - review
Posted on: 2 September 2021
In 371 BCE the Thebans achieved one of the most shocking victories in the history of warfare, by trouncing the previously invincible Spartans at the battle of Luectra despite being outnumbered almost...
β β β β β (2020)
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In Defence of History - review
Posted on: 25 August 2021
I have never knowingly met a post-modernist. Perhaps I have been going to the wrong parties β back in the days when I went to parties. I am keen to meet one. If you are one or can introduce one get in...
β β β β β (1997)
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Castlereagh - review
Posted on: 14 August 2021
Why Bew why now? John Bewβs biography of Robert Stewart (generally known as Viscount Castlereagh, the courtesy title he held most of his adult life) was published ten years ago, which raises the very...
β β β β β (2011)
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Dictators - review
Posted on: 8 August 2021
Frank Dikotterβs βDictators: the Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Centuryβ is a highly readable potted history of eight twentieth century dictators, charting the rise and (more often than not) the...
β β β ββ (2019)
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Making Deep History - review
Posted on: 6 August 2021
How do you envisage a million years? Clive Gamble in βMaking Deep History: Zeal, Perseverance and the Time Revolution of 1859β tell us that Charles Darwin was advised in 1868 to try this exercise:...
β β β ββ (2021)
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Why new history books? What's wrong with the old ones?
Posted on: 6 August 2021
βWho controls the past,β ran the Party slogan, βcontrols the future: who controls the present controls the past.β George Orwell, agreeing with me that new history books are important, in his recent...
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What Is History? - review
Posted on: 31 July 2021
There is something about the theory of history or historiography β ie how and why the study of history is conducted β that can inflame passions among professional historians. Seemingly mild mannered...
β β β β β (1961)
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Ten Caesars - review
Posted on: 24 July 2021
A week ago I went to see a blockbuster exhibition about an accused arsonist who murdered his wife and his mum. The star of the show (running until October 2021 at the British Museum in London) is of...
β β β ββ (2019)
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The Last Embassy - review
Posted on: 16 July 2021
The Dutch present ships have arrived at the Tigerβs Mouth, like tall inns on the oyster-shell mirror of the water, a joyful noise ringing out. Theyβre filled with precious offerings, but first they...
β β β β β (2021)
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Slavery After Rome, 500-1100 - review
Posted on: 11 July 2021
Health warning: the reviewer got a bit carried away and has written a rather long review β you may want to make yourself a cup of tea before starting it. What is it about? Professor of Medieval...
β β β β β (2017)
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The Horde - review
Posted on: 4 July 2021
I first learned to fear the power of the Mongols while playing the computer game Medieval II Total War. Playing as king of the English I was pretty pleased with my thuggish army of knights and...
β β β β β (2021)
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