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The Axe and the Oath: Ordinary Life in the Middle Ages
by Robert Fossier

Christopher Dyer has doubts about an ambitious analysis of medieval life

Islanders
by Nicholas Thomas

Rod Edmond welcomes a new history of the people of the Pacific and hopes it will challenge outmoded stereotypes

Lost Victorian Britain
by Gavin Stamp

Jeremy Black reads a well-researched and beautifully illustrated narrative of architectural vandalism

The German Genius: Europe’s Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution
by Peter Watson

Giles MacDonogh tackles a lengthy survey of German intellectual achievements that highlights a cultural rebirth

What did the Baby Boomers Ever do for Us?
by Francis Beckett

Dominic Sandbrook reviews a ferocious attack on the postwar generation

Atlantic
by Simon Winchester

Andrew Lambert finds that a charming ramble through the Atlantic’s past fails to live up to its promise

Christians and Pagans
by Malcolm Lambert

Sarah Foot praises an accessible study of Britain’s early Christians

Bloodied Banners: Martial Display on the Medieval Battlefield
by Robert W Jones

Anne Curry looks at a fascinating study of medieval heraldic display

State of Emergency
by Dominic Sandbrook

 

Adrian Bingham applauds the latest volume in a mammoth history of postwar Britain, this time focusing on the turbulent early 1970s 

The Liberty Bell
by Gary B Nash

Stephen Conway on an engaging short discussion of one of America’s potent symbols of liberty