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Can you learn Lessons from History? - School of History Inspection Report
Posted on: 1 April 2023
While researching local secondary schools for my kids I recently came across this intriguing (and damning) school inspection report, which I am sharing here in full just in case anyone is thinking of...
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New history books in March 2023
Posted on: 1 April 2023
A nice bunch of books this month. There seems to be a theme of ideas, with titles on Patriarchy, the West, Religion and Science, and a Northern Renaissance. Plus at least one dead-cert best-seller in...
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The Prince and the Plunder - review
Posted on: 24 March 2023
For the first six years of his life, Alamayu lived in Maqdala. As Andrew Heavens tells us in The Prince and the Plunder: How Britain took one small boy and hundreds of treasures from Ethiopia, Maqdala...
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The Ruin of All Witches - review
Posted on: 17 March 2023
They are quite willing to accept that thereβs going to be a hostile environment, and weather, and native Americans, and all the things that threaten them. The one thing that they always forget is...
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Weavers, Scribes, and Kings - review
Posted on: 10 March 2023
Names have power. If you know a name you know a person. Conversely those countless individuals throughout history whose names we have forgotten are without form and void. But when we then say let...
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New history books in February 2023
Posted on: 1 March 2023
A smaller range of new history books this month, perhaps the fewest since my records began!1 Not that there will be time to read them all anyway of course... Click the book covers to see a zoomed in...
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The Gaelic and Indian Origins of the American Revolution - review
Posted on: 13 February 2023
We hold these truths to be self evident; that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that these are life, liberty and the pursuit of...
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New history books in January 2023
Posted on: 1 February 2023
A more contemporary set of books this month, with at least one new history book going right up to the end of the twentieth century. Still good variety though and stretching back a couple of thousand...
new books
The Perfect Sword - review
Posted on: 6 January 2023
The sword is the first tool made by humans whose sole function is death; or more specifically: killing other humans, according to Edoardo Albert and Paul Gething, co-authors of The Perfect Sword:...
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