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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: 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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Book Review: John Milton - A Biography by Neil Forsyth
If you are left not particularly looking to extend your acquaintance with the poet, that isn't the biographer's fault.
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Book Review: Singled Out - How Two Million Women Survived Without Men After the First World War by Virginia Nicholson
There's much to admire in the oral histories, captured at the last possible moment.
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Book Review: British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment by Jan Golinski
Extreme weather events came to be regarded as natural phenomena to be explained. Of course some have still to catch up.
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Book Review: Homo Britannicus - The Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain by Chris Stringer
What can the Gravettians of 27,000 years ago teach us about climate change? Quite a lot.
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Book Review: Byzantium - The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire by Judith Herrin
On this account Byzantium didn't just passively preserve ancient traditions, as Gibbon claimed, but creatively developed them.
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Theater Review (London): Liberty at the Globe
There's sex, there's passion, there's politics here, in a nicely, if a touch too calculatingly, assembled mix.
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Book Review: The Hidden History of Women's Ordination - Female Clergy in the Medieval West by Gary Macy
In the modern context of controversy about the place of women in various churches this is explosive stuff.
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Book Review - The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilisation by Thomas Homer-Dixon
You might think that the world doesn't need another why-the-Roman-empire-collapsed theory. You'd be wrong.
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