I now have a much better idea of what it was like to live in what we used to call the Dark Ages.
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Theatre Review (London): Greenland at the National Theatre
Spectacular, funny, emotional - a big-scale, fast-moving exploration of the issue of our age.
Read More »Book Review: Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World by Mike Davis
Much of this history has sharp, frightening relevance today.
Read More »Book Review: She Was Aye Workin’: Memories of Tenement Women in Edinburgh and Glasgow by Helen Clark and Elizabeth Carnegie
Women by hard labour and careful calculation held together lives that today we'd consider near impossible.
Read More »Theatre Review (London): Clybourne Park at the Wyndham Theatre
To explore particularly unpleasant middle-class mores requires spending an evening in the company of prattling, middle-class bores.
Read More »Theatre Review (London): Kaspar by the Aya Theatre, at Arch 6
This is avant-garde theatre with a capital A. See it if you dare...
Read More »Books Review: The Classic Slum by Robert Roberts and Not Like This by Jane Walsh
Two books about life in the early 20th-century British northern slums are a powerful warning about the need to provide genuine anti-poverty measures today.
Read More »Book Review: The Sex of Things: Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective by Victoria de Grazia and Ellen Furlough (eds)
Consumption patterns and desires are very much historical artefacts, created by the culture and psychology of particular societies.
Read More »Book Review: She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth by Helen Castor
Not championing, unquestioning feminist history, but critical, considered feminist history.
Read More »Book Review: Dead Man’s Chest by Kerry Greenwood
Australia's leading dashing detective swans off to the seaside with her usual panache.
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