by Sue Bentley | Nov 12, 2024 | Book Reviews
Pevsner Architectural Guides The Buildings of England Christopher Wakeling and Nikolaus Pevsner. Yale University Press. Hardback, £40.00. ISBN 9780300218350 Review by: Ruth Barbour This volume is the latest publication in a series of architectural guides, the first of... 
by webdesignerjosh@gmail.com | Jun 6, 2024 | Book Reviews
By Dirk Booms and Peter John Higgs, British Museum Press . 2020 . ISBN 0861592220 Sicily has been a crossroads of different cultures with a history that is about three thousand years long. During antiquity, Sicily was the stepping stone between Europe and Africa as... 
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By Miranda Aldhouse Green, Thames & Hudson . 2016 . ISBN 9781509882205 Miranda Aldhouse-Green’s Sacred Britannia casts a huge shadow. It manages to be accessible to the casual reader who penetrates the area of Romano- British religious syncretism while adhering to... 
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By Adam Hochschild, Picador Classic . 2019 . ISBN 9781509882205 The Fiddle tells the story of a family who on two occasions, separated by twenty years and in two different countries suffered persecution because they were Jewish. Appropriately, I am writing about this... 
by webdesignerjosh@gmail.com | Jun 6, 2024 | Book Reviews
By Adam Hochschild, Picador Classic . 2019 . ISBN 9781509882205 It is unusual for a history story to be accorded the lead position on the British television news. This has happened on a number of occasions in recent years following the discovery of the mortal remains,... 
by webdesignerjosh@gmail.com | Jun 6, 2024 | Book Reviews
By Adam Hochschild, Picador Classic . 2019 . ISBN 9781509882205 This book is set mainly in central Europe and highlights the causes and some of the actions of ‘one of the most destructive conflicts in human history, [which] resulted in eight million fatalities not...