Taking on Popular Histories

Recent Posts

• Tony Judt’s Postwar, reviewed by Alanna
• Hayden White and John Reed: Between Narration and Narrativization, Reviewed by Bernard
• The Americans, Reviewed by Amanda
• The Dawn of the Second Elizabethan Age, The Twilight of the British Empire: Netflix’s The Crown, Reviewed by Liam
• Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922, The Destruction of Islam’s City of Tolerance, Reviewed by Kathryn
• The Rise and Fall of Prussia, Reviewed by Ashley
• The Mongols: Barbarians, Conquerors, and Renaissance Enablers, Reviewed by Anisha
• The Fall of Berlin 1945, Reviewed by Jonathan
• Hamilton: A Revolutionary Manumission Abolitionist?, Reviewed by Ilya
• Red Army Film Review, Reviewed by Sabrina
• Les Ordres, Reviewed by Charles
• Did the Irish Really Save Civilization?, Reviewed by Alex
• Historical Narrative and Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City, Reviewed by Henri
• John Adams, Reviewed by Griffin
• Apocalypse: The Second World War, Reviewed by David
• Borgia (2011) and the Black Myth of the Borgia Family, Reviewed by Jennifer
• David McCullough’s 1776, Reviewed by Emma
• A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression, Reviewed by Naomi
• Oliver Stone’s Alexander Revisited, Reviewed by Jeremy
• The Logic of Exclusion, Reviewed by Tristan
• The Professor and the Madman, Reviewed by Michele
• Sapiens – Inducing Humans to Rethink Humanity, Reviewed by Noah
• Wolfgang Schivelbush’s Tastes of Paradise by Marian
• It’s here….
• At the Dark End of the Street, Reviewed by Matt Garry
• The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, Reviewed by Costa Valettas
• Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World, Reviewed by Tara Davis
• The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England, Reviewed by Francesca Bucchi
• The Sleepwalkers, Reviewed by Josh Doyle – Raso
• The Lost Symbol, Reviewed by Praniet Chopra