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Book Review –
Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe What brings strong personalities to power?’ asks the historian Ian Kershaw. ‘And what promotes or limits their use of that power?’ Those two questions are at the centre of this book, … Continue reading
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Enrichment – things to read – The best history books of 2021.
If you click here you will get to a way to invest your Christmas book tokens wisely. It is the Financial Times’s top ten history books of 2021. Can I recommend Margarette Lincoln’s “London and the Seventeenth Century – the … Continue reading
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Obituary – Jonathan Steinberg. Historian whose work Bismarck: A Life is considered the best study of its subject in the English language.
If you click here, you will get to The Guardian’s obituary for Jonathan Steinberg. He famously wrote Bismarck – a life. The obituary suggests that Bismarck – a life is “brilliantly readable – nearly 500 pages go by in a … Continue reading
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Oxbridge preparation – reading something different – Best books of 2020: History
In normal times I would be advising those of you thinking of history / Oxbridge applications to start visiting places like the British Museum, and reading something completely beyond your A level topics. Only the latter is on the cards … Continue reading
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Enrichment – some UCAS / Oxbridge reading to get you through the lockdown
I know that some of you in the Lower Sixth are beginning to turn your mind to history / Oxbridge applications. If you click here you will get to someone’s list of the hundred greatest history books. Such things are of … Continue reading
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Enrichment – something to read – Fascism: A Warning by Madeline Albright
Madeline Albright was the Secretary of State in the Clinton White House (1997-2001). Born in then-Czechoslovakia, her family fled Hitler and the Nazis in 1938. Initially they came to Britain. Her latest book – Fascism – a warning is a … Continue reading
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Enrichment – something to read. Black Tudors – Miranda Kaufmann.
If you click here you will get a New Statesman review of Miranda Kaufmann’s book Black Tudors – the untold story. In it, David Dabydeen reflects that the book is a “groundbreaking, but also a gripping set of portraits of … Continue reading
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Enrichment – things to read. Centenaries and book reviews…
Something to read for both years below. Year Thirteen – If you click here you will get to Shaun Walker’s article discussing how Russia is considering how to mark the centenary of the Russian Revolution in 1917. “1917 is problematic. On the one hand, the Soviet … Continue reading
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Ten History Books I’d Love to See on Your UCAS Form
It is approaching personal statement time. If you click on the link at the bottom of the page you will get to an article by Jonathan Healey on what you might like to be reading in preparation. A small extract follows… … Continue reading
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Book Review – Backing Hitler. Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany
Following on from our work on consent to Nazi rule 1933 – 1939, you might like to read this review of Robert Gellately’s 1990 text “Backing Hitler. Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany” by Conan Fischer. In it, amongst other arguments, he … Continue reading
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