Anthony W

Here for history, historiography and perhaps histrionics. Also to complement my new blog on new(ish?) history books - please take a look!

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📕 Book review! The Savage Storm: The Heroic True Story of One of the Least told Campaigns of WW2, by James Holland - a savage meatgrinder, but what about the book? Find our more in our review here:

https://t.co/z7qKHE91ms

#WW2 #SavageStorms #HistoryBooks

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📕 Book review - Tracks on the Ocean, by Sara Caputo.

The first line on a map showing a sea voyage is only 500 years old. To find out where this trail led.................................................................................................

https://t.co/khVfn8DRgm

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📔Flint Tools Filed Guide: Identifying Stone Age Tools by Robert Turner - Book review!

Short, to the point, and practical! A great way to add a layer of interest to a walk 🪨.

https://t.co/2tP3vZRLcR

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What do Cromwell, Mangos, Manuscripts and Germans have in common?

They all feature in the 📚 new history books published in August 2024...

Follow the link for something a bit more useful on the topic!

https://t.co/tvYu3nlbmJ

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📕Book review! After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations by Eric Cline.

😎 Phoenicians
😎 Cyprians
🙂 Assyrians
🙂 Babylonians
🙂 Central Canaanites (Isrealites?)
😢 Egyptians
😬 Mycenaeans and Minoans
💀 Hittites
💀 Southern Canaanites

More info👉 https://t.co/g1uWTd3zcA

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📚 July 2024 new history books - published in the UK 📚

Son, sea and far off lands on the shelves this month, among other things...

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For more details: https://t.co/X7fWVviaOU

#historybooks #july2024

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📕 Book review: Kingdom of Characters, by Jing Tsu

A nice premise - exploring the changes in Chinese language and in language related tech over the 20th century... but the book felt arcane and abstruse.

Full review here: https://t.co/0HFzK86yfK

#history #china

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📚 New history books published in June 2024 in the UK

12 on the list - mostly European plus one on Jerusalem and one on evolutionary biology / history thrown in too...

https://t.co/3ANeQi2lHY

#historybooks

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📕 Book review - Discovering Pompeii by Natasha Sheldon

Covering 🏛️ , 🏠 and 🌋 , I found it an excellent way to ingest further info on the site and doomed - yet immortalised - inhabitants.

Full review here: https://t.co/qUWdY2CLwy

#pompeii #vesuvius

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📚 New history books from May 2024, with a theme of colonial conflict running through many of them. More info at the link!

https://t.co/sP22VRNHQh

#history #historybooks

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📕 Book review: Conquered: The Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England, by Eleanor Parker

Covering favourites such as: 🤴👸👨‍👩‍👧‍👦🤴 and 👴. 😀

Full review: https://t.co/JDNlUf3SUf

#Anglo-Saxons #Hereward

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To celebrate our third year anniversary 🎂 - here are all the history books that have received our sought after top rating (5x⭐)

If you wrote one of them: brilliant work, and looking forward to the sequel! 😀

#historybooks

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📕 Book review: Arise, England, by Caroline Burt and Richard Partington

John 😡 bad
Henry III 🥺 feeble
Edward I 😎 awesome
Edward II 😨 abjectly pathetic
Edward III 😍 my hero
Richard II 😬 rubbish

https://t.co/oRaCAn7Aoh

#historybooks #john #edward #henry #richard

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📚 New history books from April 2024

14 on the list, quite a high proportion of which I would like to read, although I know that for only a low percentage of this high proportion will I do so

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📘📔📗📙📔
📘📗📙📔

More info: https://t.co/frjdzLeUch

#historybooks

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📕 Book review - The Nirvana Express by Mick Brown

All about Indian gurus who brought Eastern spiritualism to the West, from the late 19th C up to the 1980s. Mostly excellent, with lots of colourful characters!

Full review: https://t.co/1WooN2tEXx

#enlightenment

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📚 New history books published in Mar 2024, covering:

Silver, propaganda, heresy, language, poison, Capetians, Victorian PMs and graffiti!

For more details: https://t.co/yTwt7w1Wdr

#history #historybooks #newbooks #tumbleweed

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📕 Book review! Footmarks by Jim Leary

Its not the destination, but the journey... Footmarks ponders journeys from the dawn of mankind to nowadays. I loved the idea, but felt it hit a few bum notes

Full review 👉 https://t.co/b2livnupXj

#historybooks #archaeology #bumprint

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📚 New history books from February 2024, covering the following topics:

⚓💪🧱🇮🇩🦴🌍🇹🇼👸🦜☠️✡️🤏🇬🇧🌎🇪🇸⌛🛡️

More global in scope than usual this month! More details below:

https://t.co/VuTbpzqTFG

#historybooks

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📓 review - One Fine Day, by Matthew Parker

In 1923 the British Empire was the largest ever. Parker gives us a tour of the 🌍 stopping off at:

🇰🇮 🇦🇺 🇮🇳 🇲🇾 🇲🇲 🇰🇪 🇳🇬 🇯🇲

The tour is long, sometimes exhausting, but worthwhile.

https://t.co/yZ0uQPyFcO

#britishempire #History

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📚 New history books from Jan 2024 📚

Shia and Sunni, Male-Male relations, Strange deaths, Russia, Picnics, British Empire, WW2 Japan, etc etc!

More here 👉 https://t.co/YQzHEFFOBE

#history #historybooks #picnics