Abraham Lincoln: United States at the crossroads
Abraham Lincoln’s victory in the presidential election in November 1860 set the United States on the path to bloody civil...
07/10/2012
BOOK REVIEW
Book review: Dickens and the Workhouse by Ruth Richardson
Author: Ruth Richardson Publisher: Oxford University Press Reviewed by: Peter Higginbotham Price (RRP): £16.99 Peter Higginbotham discovers the background to...
07/09/2012
Book review: A Visitor’s Guide to the Ancient Olympics by Neil Faulkner
Author: Neil Faulkner Publisher: Yale University Press Reviewed by: Paul Cartledge Price (RRP): £14.99 Paul Cartledge savours a breezy history...
06/08/2012
Book review: Robespierre: A Revolutionary Life by Peter McPhee
Author: Peter McPhee Publisher: Yale University Press Reviewed by: Malcolm Crook Price (RRP): £25 Malcolm Crook commends a scholarly biography...
14/06/2012
Book Review: The Legacy of the Italian Resistance by Philip Cooke
The Legacy of the Italian Resistance Philip Cooke Palgrave Macmillan 263pp £52.25 Between 1943 and 1945 thousands of Italian men...
18/04/2012
Book review: The First Crusade: The Call from the East by Peter Frankopan
Author: Peter Frankopan Publisher: Bodley Head Reviewed by: Norman Housley Price (RRP): £20 Norman Housley has mixed feelings about the...
10/04/2012
Book review: Moll: The Life and Times of Moll Flanders by Sian Rees
Author: Sian Rees Publisher: Chatto & Windus Reviewed by: Hallie Rubenhold Price (RRP): £18.99 Hallie Rubenhold applauds an ambitious depiction...
23/03/2012
Book review: Secret Days by Asa Briggs
Author: Asa Briggs Publisher: Frontline Books Reviewed by: Roger Moorhouse Price (RRP): £19.99 From being Britain’s best kept wartime secret...
11/03/2012
Book review: The Pleasures of the Imagination by John Brewer
John Brewer’s The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century documents the 18th century creating of “high...
04/02/2012
The American War for Independence
Britain’s victory in the Seven Years’ War (1756 – 1763) seemed to confirm its position as the dominant imperial power....
22/01/2012