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New history books in November 2022
Posted on: 1 December 2022
A great range of new history books published in November 2022! Book covers below and some notes on the ones that caught my eye below that. Click the book covers to see a zoomed in image and links to...
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Fury of The Vikings - review
Posted on: 29 November 2022
The Yggdrasil, as Dominic Sandbrook tells us in Adventures in Time: Fury of the Vikings is the great world tree of Norse mythology. Spanning the universe, its highest branches stretch up into the...
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Uncommon Wrath - review
Posted on: 25 November 2022
Julius Caesar, after a decade of largely unprovoked warfare in what is now France, had killed a million Gauls and enslaved a million more. His contemporary and political rival Cato the Younger (Marcus...
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Ancestors - review
Posted on: 4 November 2022
Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and some other places, was buried on 19 September 2022 in Windsor Chapel. The crown she wore as queen, together with the orb and sceptre (ie the golden ball...
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New history books in October 2022
Posted on: 1 November 2022
Click the book covers to see a zoomed in image and links to Amazon for those who like to buy their books there. ...
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How to achieve (historical) immortality - on a budget
Posted on: 14 October 2022
What we do in life echoes in eternity... So said Maximus in the film Gladiator way back in the year 2000. The trouble is that for most of us these echoes are going to be pretty feeble, lasting (at...
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Cartooning China - review
Posted on: 7 October 2022
These half civilised governments such as those in China Portugal and Spanish America all require a Dressing every eight or Ten years to keep them in order... They care little for words and they must...
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New history books in September 2022
Posted on: 1 October 2022
Thirteen new history books identified this month. No doubt they are all good but to pick out a few: Olando Figes does his bit to enlighten us all with his The Story of Russia. As I had noted earlier...
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In the Reign of King John - review
Posted on: 23 September 2022
Nowadays we suffer from deforestation. In the 13th Century England had an afforestation problem. More and more of the country was being forested and people were - literally - up in arms about it. What...
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Happy Dreams of Liberty - review
Posted on: 11 September 2022
Their freedom papers will only be a pass to want and misery... they have happy dreams of liberty... but if they could realise, as clearly as I do, how much more happy they would be back on an...
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New history books in August 2022
Posted on: 1 September 2022
I was pleasantly surprised by the selection of history books over August 2022: expecting a summer holiday month lull, there are actually quite a few good 'uns, as you can see from the covers...
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Dominion - review
Posted on: 12 August 2022
Lady Elizabeth of Hungary was a young lady who had it all. Daughter of King Andrew II of Hungary, she had been successfully married off at 14 to a German Duke - a husband she seems to have been...
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