Nonfiction
The Light of Day: The first man to come out at the dawn of gay liberation
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Christopher Stephens developed a close friendship with the blind gay activist Roger Butler while a student at Oxford in the first decade of ...Read Review
Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome
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Fulvia may not be one of the names which immediately springs to mind when one thinks of ancient Rome. In common with many ...Read Review
The Ride: Paul Revere and the Night That Saved America
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Every schoolchild in America has heard of Paul Revere’s “midnight ride,” due in large part to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1860 poem about ...Read Review
The Celtic Tribes: Origins, Ancestry & The Warrior Class
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Deemed barbarians by the Romans, the Celts had two stark choices: surrender, lose their identity and become part of the Roman Empire; or ...Read Review
World-Changing Women: 150 Women who Rewrote the Histories of Ancient Egypt, Israel, Greece and Rome
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Paul Chrystal’s new book, World-Changing Women, makes grand claims for its aim – ‘to demonstrate how 150 women significantly influenced, informed and changed the ...Read Review
Myths and Legends of the Medieval World
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The title of Paul Watts’ book may be somewhat misleading, as the focus here is not on the mythology of the world, but ...Read Review
Evacuees and Crabapple Trees
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For lovers of Sheila Newberry’s historical sagas, her collected memoirs – Evacuees and Crabapple Trees – are a delight. The celebrated author of more ...Read Review
The V1 Flying Bomb Campaign 1944-1945: The Doodlebug Summer and After
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‘The Blitz’ has become part of the British national myth. Between September 1940 and May 1941, fleets of conventional aircraft bombarded London and other British ...Read Review
How to Survive in Anglo-Saxon England
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The Early Medieval period encompassed almost 600 years of immense political, social and religious change. How to Survive in Anglo-Saxon England offers an accessible ...Read Review
Paris in Ruins: The Siege, the Commune and the Birth of Impressionism
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Paris, 1870: the events of the ‘terrible year’ are seen through the eyes of the artists who lived through it. Yet for Smee, what ...Read Review
