New Year, Old Books | History Today
It is, and of long time hath been, my well-beloved sister, a custom in the beginning of the New Year,
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
In the aftermath of the First World War, a quarter of a century before the Nuremberg and Tokyo war crimes
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review
A majority of Christians today believe that their faith involves seeing heterosexual, monogamous, and procreative sexual intercourse as the norm.
Hidden Fires by Sairish Hussain
I will not be getting over this book any time soon. It broke my heart, and all my other critical
Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
Absinthe, once the ‘Green Fairy’ – muse of painters and poets – came to haunt the last decades of 19th-century
On the Spot: Lucy Noakes
Why are you a historian of modern war? My interest in war goes back to the stories my grandparents told
Dear Moon: Inspiration from the Beautiful Wisdom of the Qur’an by Zayneb Haleem
Dec10 At 128 pages, this hard back 7.5 x 8.5 inch book is a beautiful book from start to finish.
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
At first, after Eleanor Roosevelt’s husband Franklin died in 1945, she had no thoughts of taking on any official duties.
The Power of Du’a by Aliyah Umm Raiyaan
Having not read the author’s first book, Ramadan Reflections, I wasn’t sure what to expect with this non- fiction/memoir/anthology/self help/spiritual
Sarah Mae Flemming and the Forgotten Women of Civil Rights
In the racially segregated American South of the 1950s a Black woman sits in the section of a bus reserved
