Category Archives: Book Reviews

The best history books of 2014

Please click here for the Guardian’s review of the best history books of 2014. Hopefully there will be something that interests you (for when you get the Christmas book tokens). God’s Traitors is described as follows; Jessie Childs’s account of cloak-and-dagger … Continue reading

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Book Review – Joan of Arc: A History, by Helen Castor

If you click here then you will be taken to the Times Higher Education review of the wonderful Helen Castor’s  Joan of Arc. In it, Rachel Moss praises “an elegant account that sets a charismatic Maid of Orleans in political context“. She … Continue reading

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