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Ambrosial Lucubrations
Ambrosial Lucubrations A Modern Journey eBook: Derek Turner: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store Also available in paperback Reviewed by James Connor It seems like the fun jaunts I had through Dublin go way back to J.P. Donleavy, and maybe I just haven’t … Continue reading
Everything and more
Everything and more Margaret Thatcher, the Authorised Biography, Everything she Wants, by Charles Moore, Allen Lane, ISBN 978-0-713-99288-5 Angela Ellis-Jones reviews the second volume of the definitive biography of Margaret Thatcher This is the second volume of Charles Moore’s projected … Continue reading
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Nietzsche – between Good and Evil
Nietzsche – between Good and Evil Chapter and verse on his anti-Semitism Was Friedrich Nietzsche anti-Semitic? In Nietzsche’s Jewish Problem, Robert C Holub shows that resolving this question requires painstaking analysis of his thought, both published and unpublished, likewise of … Continue reading
Hitler’s Architect
Hitler’s Architect Stoddard Martin reviews a new biography of Albert Speer In the rogue’s gallery of National Socialism, good boy Albert Speer usually gets short shrift. As a rogue, he seems on the surface deficient – none of the public … Continue reading
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Victoriana – a Cornucopia
Victoriana – a Cornucopia ANGELA ELLIS-JONES reviews a weighty tome The Victorian World, ed. Martin Hewitt, Routledge, London 2013, Pb., Reprint edition, ISBN 978-0-415-71298-9, 756pp, £44.99 This is the latest volume in a series of which sixteen other volumes have … Continue reading
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Contextualising a Queen Regnant
Contextualising a Queen Regnant Stoddard Martin reviews a revisionist take on Mary Tudor The standard narrative of English history of the 15th century is of squalor bookended by brief-ish reigns of two great kings, Henry V and VII. Shakespeare promulgated … Continue reading
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Tagged Elizabeth 1, Gregory Slysz, Henry V111, Katherine of Aragon, Mary Tudor, Reginald Pole, Wars of the Roses
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Herodotus, in the Eye of the Beholder
Herodotus, in the Eye of the Beholder Darrell Sutton salutes the latest edition of The Histories Herodotus: The Histories, 2013, Translation by Tom Holland, Introduction and Notes by Paul Cartledge. Paperback edition, Penguin, 2015, ISBN 978-0143107545, Pp.834 Herodotus (c.484 BC … Continue reading
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Race Differences in Sporting Achievement
Race Differences in Sporting Achievement Frank Ellis considers a compelling analysis Subjected to different evolutionary pressures because they emerged in different parts of the world, racial groups demonstrate superior and inferior levels of attainment in various sporting endeavours. Such is … Continue reading →
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