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Book Review: Crosby Stills & Nash – The Biography (Updated 40th Anniversary Edition) by Dave Zimmer With Photographs by Henry Diltz
For both CSN&Y fans and students of American music history, the updated version of CSN's biography is an essential read.
Read More »DVD Review: Edward The King
An exhaustive history and an intimate portrayal of the lives of an era's pre-eminent people.
Read More »A Visit to Fort Totten
New York was too important a mercantile center to risk leaving vulnerable to an alliance between the Confederacy and the British.
Read More »DVD Review: Schoolhouse Rock!: The Election Collection
“I’m just a bill. Yes, I’m only a bill and I’m sitting here on Capital Hill…”
Read More »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.
Read More »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.
Read More »Book Review: Near Death In The Mountains – True Stories Of Disaster And Survival Edited By Cecil Kuhne
A gripping collection for those who climb up mountains and those who climb into comfortable chairs to read.
Read More »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.
Read More »Catholic Relief Services – Helping Children Since World War II
School meals provided by Catholic Relief Services benefited many Bosnian children by improving their nutrition, class attendance and education.
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