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TALK - Plagues, Pandemics and Covid 19
Yesterday I have my talk on "Plagues, Pandemics and Covid-19" to a History Club in Sussex via Zoom.
This is - inevitably - a fairly grim talk but fascinating nonetheless. And in the end it has a message of hope to us all. Humanity has survived far worse diseases than Covid-19. Have a look at this map of the spread of the Black Death across Europe. Up to half the people in Europe were wiped ou
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Stalingrad: The Battle that Shattered Hitler's Dream of World Domination
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2012
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8 editions
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Titanic: The Tragic Story of the Ill-Fated Ocean Liner
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2011
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11 editions
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You Wouldn't Want to Be a Mayan Soothsayer!: Fortunes You'd Rather Not Tell
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Hitler, Military Commander
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2003
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15 editions
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The Age of the Gladiators: Savagery & Spectacle in Ancient Rome
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2004
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5 editions
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You Wouldn't Want to Be a Chicago Gangster!: Some Dangerous Characters You'd Better Avoid
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2010
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You Wouldn't Want to Be an Assyrian Soldier!: An Ancient Army You'd Rather Not Join
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2007
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Sasquatch: True-Life Encounters with Legendary Ape-Men
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2008
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Explorer
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1991
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21 editions
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Jack the Ripper's Streets of Terror: Life During the Reign of Victorian London's Most Brutal Killer
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2013
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A great collection of short stories. The setting is really intriguing. The early days of railways in the mid-19th century allows the author to explore not only the period, but how people reacted to the coming of the railways. Long distance travel was ...more |
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I really enjoyed this book. Mind you, i read it on holiday so I wasn't being too demanding of literary merit. But i suppose Andy MacNab does not pretend to be Shakespeare, so that is OK. In fact this was a good thriller with plenty of twists and turn ...more |
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I enjoyed this book very much. As much for what it told me about life in Biloxi and nearby areas as for the storyline or characters. The story itself is fairly straightforward. It follows two schoolfriends as their careers diverge - one into being a ...more |
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Not one of his best, is probably the kindest thing that I can say of this book. Having previously read and enjoyed other books by le Carre, I was deeply disappointed by this book. The story line is thing, most of the characters are little more than s ...more |
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Pratchett on top form! OK, I admit it. I am a bit of a Pratchett fan, but even so this is a cracking book. For those of us who follow the Discworld novels there are plenty of characters to recognise. Vetinari, Vimes, Carrot, Death of Rats, Angua, Nobb ...more |
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This was absolutely fascinating, but it was a bit long for my tastes. I was intereseted in the career and politics of Peel, but to be honest it did go into enormous detail about some side issues that I felt did not add much to the subject in hands. T ...more |
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What a great book! I inherited this from my mother who was a great collector of fairy tales and folk stories - more of her books to follow. I've got the Third Edition from 1898, which is in fairly good condition all things considered. I did not realis ...more |
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| Well, this was OK so far as it went. Quite engaging little stories with some interesting characters and a good deal of atmospheric descriptive writing about the cities, towns and villages where the stories are set. I'm not really one to judge as to w ...more | |
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We are back on th eDiscworld for this book - if we ever left. Well, a great concept but - at least in my opinion - a tad flawed. Clearly the idea was for Terry Pratchett to produce a story that was not as long as one of his regular novels, then hire ...more |
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Fantastic - top clas Pratchett! If you like Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, you will love this one. It must be said that many of the favourite characters are missing - there is no sign of Vertinari, the Watch, the Librarian or Rincewind. Even tho ...more |
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“seriously, interviewing witnesses and putting together a tentative sequence of events.”
― Roswell: Uncovering the secrets of Area 51 and the fatal UFO crash
― Roswell: Uncovering the secrets of Area 51 and the fatal UFO crash
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