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The English Civil Wars, by Blair Worden

Reviewed by: Simon Parker

Terrific primer of who did what, when and to whom for an inexplicably underrepresented period of British history.
You would think the period 1640-1660 would be a perma fixture on school curriculums and still pulse through the collective cultural consciousness. After all it has everything. A despotic King, rising tensions played out via impassioned parliamentary speeches, [...]

Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years, by Sue Townsend

Reviewed by: Simon Appleby

I wonder if it would perhaps be possible to divide people in to people who were older than Adrian Mole when they first read his secret diary, and those who were younger. The reason for this speculation is that I can’t help feeling it makes a profound difference to how you read and relate to [...]

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