‘Popularizing the Past’ by Nick Witham review
Popularizing the Past: Historians, Publishers, and Readers in Postwar America by Nick Witham explores the industry of popular history from Daniel Boorstin to Howard Zinn.
Reviews
‘Three Worlds’ by Avi Shlaim review
Some 110,000 Jews left Iraq in 1950 and 1951 – a Jewish community that could trace its origins back to the Babylonians.
‘George Orwell and Russia’ by Masha Karp review
The suggestion that Russia has become an Orwellian tyranny is an inadequate explanation as to why the country finds itself in its present situation.
‘Men at War’ by Luke Turner review
A part-memoir, part-historical exploration of British Second World War masculinity and sexuality.
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‘The Red Hotel’ by Alan Philps review
The correspondents who reported on a period when Russia changed European, and world, history.
‘Pax’ by Tom Holland review
An account of the Roman Empire at its height amounts to a marvellous vademecum.
‘Henry III’ by David Carpenter review
A new account of some of the most exciting, terrible and important years in English history.
‘Love in a Time of Hate’ by Florian Illies review
An account of the sex lives of European intellectuals is full of gossip – and as shallow as the society pages.
‘Tudor Liveliness’ by Christina J. Faraday review
Art reveals the past – if you know how to look.
‘The Extraordinary Journey of David Ingram’ by Dean Snow review
Great cities more than a mile long, ‘banquette houses’, elephants, and birds with heads ‘as big as a man’s: the journey of David Ingram.