26 Jan 2014
BBC History Magazine looks forward to the publication of Jessie Childs’ God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England.
24 Jan 2014
Mark Felton’s book on the American West was one of only a handful of titles recommended by Melvyn Bragg following a debate on Custer’s Last Stand on Radio 4.
23 Jan 2014
Marina Chapman’s new National Geographic documentary was added to Youtube a few weeks ago, and has already racked up more than half a million views.
21 Jan 2014
‘FOR Britain’s growing army of low paid workers, George Osborne’s conversion on the national minimum wage will be welcome news. His call for a rise comes after years of collapsing real pay for the 1.3 million working for the minimum rate of £6.31, now 10 per cent lower than in 2004.’
19 Jan 2014
Helen Croydon, author of new book Screw the Fairytale, has now launched her own dating website for people looking for ‘low-maintenance’ relationships.
19 Jan 2014
In today’s Mail on Sunday, agency author Emily Lloyd remembers her father Roger Lloyd Pack, who died this week.
A daughter’s moving farewell to the father known to millions as Trigger
19 Jan 2014
Simon Cursey’s shocking account of the secret Military Reaction Force in Northern Ireland, MRF Shadow Troop, has had a great review from army website ARRSE. ‘This is a fascinating look at the work of the Military Reaction Force in the early 1970s in Northern Ireland…. I enjoyed this book and recommend it to all… An enjoyable and informative history describing the actions of very brave men in a very dangerous time.’ Full review
18 Jan 2014
There have been two more great reviews for Sean McMeekin’s July 1914. History Today pairs Sean with Niall Ferguson and Barbara Tuchman as one of the most important historians of 1914.
And the New York Review of Books writes:
“Sean McMeekin’s chronicle of these weeks in July 1914: Countdown to War is almost impossible to put down…. [McMeekin] delivers a punchy and riveting narrative of high politics and diplomacy over the five weeks after Sarajevo, more or less day by day, dwelling on small groups of decision-makers in and between the various capitals, and their interactions, by turns measured, perplexed, cordial, artful, angry, even tearful.”