Boudica Lite
A search for Boudica finds its author, but not the Queen of the Iceni.
Reviews
It’s Bliss
Is knowledge a useful remedy for ignorance?
All Among the Watchtowers
A new book claims to be the definitive history of the GDR. Is it? And don’t we have those already?
Broad Church
Soaring and swooping through a history of Catholicism, from 1789 to the present day.
‘Courting India’ by Nandini Das review
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire by Nandini Das details the uncertainty, contingency and precarity of England’s imperial ambitions.
Ancient Outtakes
Depicting an ancient world in which Amazons fought alongside men, winds had distinct characters, and tortoises sang.
American Moppets
Americanised globalisation and the new world of Russian business in the 1990s.
Fight On
Why did Asia not have postwar peace?
No Edens
A level-headed chronicle of the varied impact of climate on our history.
This Flammable Isle
The familiar story of the 17th century told through unfamiliar voices.