Tag: History
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East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity by Phillippe Sands (2016)
This is a book about many things. Ostensibly you could say that East West Street is about a lawyer and historian, Phillippe Sands, exploring the lives of his maternal grandparents (and his mother) before and during the Second World War. It starts as that, catalysed by Sands being invited to give a lecture at the […]
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House of Glass by Hadley Freeman (2020)
Let me preface this review by saying that I have not written a book review, or any blog post, for months now so please bear with me… in June I went back to work after maternity leave, but due to lockdown my little one’s nursery was not open at the time and so my husband […]
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She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth by Helen Castor (2011)
She-Wolves was one of those books that I had heard about for ages, and kept meaning to read, but for some reason never got around to – laziness, too many other books to read, a million reasons. So I decided to put it on my wish list for Christmas and birthday books last year, and […]
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Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley (2017)
I bought my copy of Jane Austen at Home while on holiday in Devon, when I ran out of reading material (first time in my life that I only packed one book, silly me). I ended up reading it mostly after the holiday, but starting it in picturesque Devon only added to my joy at […]
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The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor (2016)
I saw this book at a conference last year, and it sat on my reading list for months until I received it for my birthday in January. I was a bit apprehensive about reading it as I knew it wouldn’t exactly be a light read, and the paperback is 429 pages (not counting the appendix, […]
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Things I Think I Could Write a Book About
I recently tweeted about this – apologies to any of my followers for the repetition here. It’s just that I have often, in my life, thought about writing a book. I used to want to write a novel, and actually managed to write one in my late teens, though I fear it is just over-emotional […]
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Things I’m reading that aren’t books
I read a lot of books, but I also read a lot of other stuff that doesn’t require quite so much concentration and/or time. A lot of this is book reviews and blog posts, but it varies. Here is what I have been reading recently: Fern Riddell’s article on History Today – Sanitising the Suffragettes: […]
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Re-reading: Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada (1947)
I first read Alone in Berlin in 2011 just after I’d left university. I’d read a lot of books about the Second World War for a course at university, and my further reading (and time on Twitter) led me to this novel. It was only translated into English in 2009, so in 2011 it was […]
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