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Stefan Collini: Common Reading
Critics, Historians, Publics When I started reading this book, I somehow assumed it would be a general history of ‘common readers’ in the Woolfian sense - sophisticated non-academic criti… more →
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Stefan Collini: Common Reading
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Leena wrote 4 days ago: Critics, Historians, Publics When I started reading this book, I somehow assumed it would be a gener … more →
Young Trotsky: the Iskra years, 1902-1904
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kirstyjane wrote 4 weeks ago: The “state of siege” on which Lenin insisted with such energy requires “full power … more →
The Forgotten Dead by Ken Small and Mark Rogerson
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Moira wrote 1 month ago: On June the 6th, 1944 some 23,250 US troops were safely landed on the Normandy beach codenamed … more →
Stalin's Russia, by Chris Ward
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kirstyjane wrote 1 month ago: But we need to remind ourselves of the point of academic history. It is not to establish a mythic t … more →
Michael Steen: Enchantress of Nations
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Leena wrote 2 months ago: Pauline Viardot: Soprano, Muse and Lover Enchantress of Nations is the biography of a 19th-century … more →
Ben Wilson: Decency and Disorder
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Leena wrote 2 months ago: The Age of Cant 1789-1837 I’m looking at my copious notes here, quite baffled, hardly knowing … more →
Victorian Glassworlds by Isobel Armstrong
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Moira wrote 2 months ago: Glass Culture and the Imagination 1830-1880 Glass. We all know it. We all use it. We all look thr … more →
Lev Bronstein: A Life in Pictures
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kirstyjane wrote 2 months ago: I am a Trotsky specialist. Well, this is not entirely true. Technically, I am also a Bronstein spe … more →
Copernicus' Secret by Jack Repcheck
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Jackie wrote 2 months ago: It is fitting that on the weekend in which the Phoenix landed on Mars that I was reading a book abo … more →
Seven Wonders of the Industrial World by Deborah Cadbury
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Moira wrote 2 months ago: Hands up everyone who’s ever really liked a television series, bought the TV tie-in book and t … more →
Our Longest Days edited by Sandra Koa Wing
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Moira wrote 3 months ago: Looking back on anything from a distance - especially through the lens of ‘history’ - al … more →
Rat: How the World's Most Notorious Rodent Clawed its Way to the Top by Jerry Langton
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Jackie wrote 3 months ago: A lot of people would be put off reading about the world’s most infamous rodent, but this book … more →
Flower Hunters by Mary Gribbin and John Gribbin
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Moira wrote 3 months ago: One evening, while dining with the Viceroy of Chile (as one does), Royal Navy surgeon Archibald Menz … more →
Preston Cotton Martyrs by J S Leigh
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Moira wrote 4 months ago: The millworkers who shocked a nation. The working and living conditions for the mill families in P … more →
Why Alfred Burned the Cakes by David Horspool
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Moira wrote 5 months ago: Almost everything everyone thinks they know about King Alfred is wrong. Let’s just run through a … more →
St Pancras Station by Simon Bradley
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Moira wrote 6 months ago: It’s difficult to know when the tide of popular opinion turned and Victorian architecture stop … more →
Adolphe Valette: A French Impressionist in Manchester by Sandra Martin.
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Moira wrote 7 months ago: No-one knows for sure why Pierre Adolphe Valette left his native France for England. The best gues … more →
Leon Trotsky: My Life
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kirstyjane wrote 8 months ago: “This book is not an objective photograph of my life,” Trotsky writes in his foreword to My Life … more →
Life as a Victorian Lady, by Pamela Horn
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Ariadne wrote 10 months ago: A short book merits a short review. Here it is: this book is good. Brevity is a virtue, and, throug … more →
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