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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...
β β β β β (2020)
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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...
β β β ββ (2022)
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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...
new books
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...
β β β β β (2019)
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New history books in July 2022
Posted on: 1 August 2022
Not so many new history books this month, but no doubt the quality is still up there! A few which have piqued my interest are: Two Houses Two Kingdoms: A History of France and England, 1100β1300...
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Book reviews and culture wars - an interview with Suleiman the Magnificent
Posted on: 8 July 2022
We were recently lucky enough to talk to Suleiman the Magnificent who I was particular keen to quiz on the subject of negative βculture warβ book reviews on Amazon. The recording itself got corrupted...
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New history books in June 2022
Posted on: 1 July 2022
What's new this month? We've got 14 history books on our 'just published' list, four of which have picqued my interest... A History of Delusions: The Glass King, a Substitute Husband and a Walking...
new books
Making History - review
Posted on: 24 June 2022
The study of history is a funny beast: on the one hand everything is history, given that by the time we put fingers to keyboard, we are commenting on the past. On the other hand βhistoryβ can mean an...
β β β ββ (2022)
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The Ottomans - review
Posted on: 17 June 2022
How did an obscure thirteenth century Anatolian beylik emerge as a vast continent-spanning Ottoman empire? How then did it come to wither away in the nineteenth century, with its eventual replacement...
β β β β β (2021)
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Words The Vikings Gave Us - review
Posted on: 9 June 2022
Words the Vikings gave us by Grace Tierney is rather different to the majority of the books reviewed on this blog as it is effectively a glossary of Viking words still in use today, or which have...
β β β ββ (2021)
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New history books in May 2022
Posted on: 1 June 2022
What do we have to delve into this month? A couple on ancient Egypt, including one A Year in the Life of Ancient Egypt (from the same author who wrote 24 Hours in Ancient Egypt) which looks like an...
new books
Crusaders - review
Posted on: 13 May 2022
Lots of gold, a piece of the True Cross, and some great anecdotes - Sigurd Jersulamfarer had done pretty well out of his Viking mini crusade in the early 12th Century. His trip was about a decade...
β β β β β (2019)
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