A narrative history informed by the latest research that gets to its theories only at the end.
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Theater Review (London): George Orwell’s 1984 presented by the Blind Summit Theatre and BAC
A polished, entertaining, gripping, surprising presentation of Orwell's classic.
Read More »Book Review: Europe’s Lost World: The Rediscovery of Doggerland by V. Gaffney, S. Fitch and D. Smith
A lost Mesolithic world at the centre of north-west Europe is explored.
Read More »Book Review: Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger
Would it be better if our data storage was as forgetful as the human brain?
Read More »Book Review: The English Rebel: One Thousand Years of Troublemaking, From the Normans to the Nineties by David Horspool
Everything from medieval aristocrats to the Greenham Common protest, which makes for a bit of a muddle
Read More »Book Review: Love and Power in the Peasant Family: Rural France in the Nineteenth Century by Martine Segalen
"I can’t do better than compare you to a field of young cabbages before the caterpillars have been through.”
Read More »Book Review: Howard’s End is On the Landing by Susan Hill
For bibliophiles of all kinds.
Read More »Theatre Review (London): Frida Kahlo, Viva La Vida at the Oval House Theatre
This performance does justice to a wild, tempestuous, brilliant woman.
Read More »Book Review: Austerity Britain: 1945-51 by David Kynaston
Lively, entertaining, and portraying a country that is wrestling with many of the same problems today.
Read More »Theater Review (London): Twelfth Night at Turnham Green and the Brockley Jack
Don't look for deeper meanings in this lively, physical production.
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