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Natalie is the editor of My London Your London, an independent cultural guide featuring theatre, gallery and museum reviews, and also blogs at Philobiblon, on history, culture, Green politics and all things feminist. She's the founder of the Carnival of Feminists, and Managing Editor and Books Editor on Blogcritics.
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Book Review: St Pancras Station by Simon Bradley
An odd little book, mostly an architectural history, but with some great snippets of social anecdote about one of the great train stations of Europe.
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Book Review: Return to Chauvet Cave - Excavating the Birthplace of Art: The First Full Report by Jean Clottes
The closest we can get to the brilliantly preserved traces of the previous users - human and animal.
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Book Review: Marie Antoinette - The Last Queen of France by Evelyne Lever
No, she wasn't faithful, but the reasons for that were understandable, and human.
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Book Review: The Real Queen of France - Athenais and Louis XIV by Lisa Hilton
We can do with positive, approving accounts of powerful women – particularly those who've started from practically nowhere.
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Theatre Review (London): The Cordelia Dream at Wilton's Music Hall
This was quite the worst time I've had at the theatre in a very long while.
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Books Review: The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall and The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Two competitors for 'The Great Climate Change Novel' prize run in balanced parallel.
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Theater Review (London): The Tragedy of Thomas Hobbes at Wilton's Music Hall
The waning days of the repressive Protectorate being replaced by the hysterical gaiety of the Restoration is a period with great possibilities.
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Theater Review (London): The Ides of March at the White Bear
A gripping, fast-moving plot explores complex issues of political and individual rights in the age of truly terrifying terrorism.
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Book Review: Blood Sisters - Women of the French Revolution by Marilyn Yalom
If you want to feel like you've got a decent grasp of the Revolution, you certainly can't leave out women's place in it.
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Book Review - Myxomatosis: A History of Pest Control and the Rabbit by Peter W.J. Bartrip
Offers an insight into 50s Britain, its agricultural and official communities, and its ecological balance.
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