The Year Is...
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Michael Dobson writes:
The ploy of concentrating on the events of a single exciting year neatly leaves out much of what can make the average cradle-to-grave life of Shakespeare seem turgid and off the point - all that stuff about infant mortality rates in Warwickshire and the eccle...
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1848: Year of Revolution
In 1848 an unprecedented wave of revolutions swept across Europe, engulfing France, Hungary, Italy, Germany and the Balkans in a battle between liberal ideals and the old conservative order established by the victorious powers in 1815. Reviewing 1848 in the Observer Sophia Missi... See details
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The Red Riding Trilogy
This Channel 4 adaptation of David Peace’s novels 1974, 1980 and 1983 provides a gritty, atmospheric portrait of Yorkshire in the 1970s and early 1980s, as a corrupt police force hunts for a serial killer. Real events – the framing of Stefan Kiszko, the repe... See details
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428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire
Giusto Traina begins his tour of the European and Near Eastern worlds in a single year with the fall of the kingdom of Armenia to the Sassanid Empire, and ends it in Iran. Along the way, as he writes in his introduction, ‘we will live with the dramatis personae of this long year: the emper... See details
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1066: The Year of the Three Battles
Frank McLynn tells the story of one of the most momentous years in England’s history through its three pivotal battles: Fulford Gate, Stamford Bridge and Senlac Hill. And of the three great commanders who fought, won and lost there: Harald Hardrada, Harold Godwinson and Duke William of Normandy. ... See details
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1415: Henry V's Year of Glory
1415 is the fourth in Ian Mortimer’s sequence of historical biographies, following books on Edward II, Edward III and Henry IV. Here he turns to the pivotal year of Henry V’s victory at Agincourt. Henry emerges in Mortimer’s book as a much darker figure than that in Shakespeare, undoubtedl... See details
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1688: The First Modern Revolution
England’s Glorious Revolution has often been seen as a rather civilised affair – bloodless, largely consensual, and most of all, not terribly revolutionary. In his stirring and cogently argued work of polemical revisionism, Steve Pincus argues that almost exactly the opposite is the case: ‘For th... See details
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1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow
Adam Zamoyski's panoramic account of Napoleon's calamitous invasion of Russia received rapturous reviews when it was published in 2004. What makes the book particularly remarkable (as well as deeply harrowing) is the skill with which Zamoyski interweaves the big historical picture – this was one ... See details
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The Year is '42
Nella Bielski's elegant masterpiece follows the interwoven destinies of three people – Karl Bazinger, a German officer in occupied Paris who has begun to question the regime he serves, his friend Hans Bielenberg in Germany, and Ekaterina Lvovna, a doctor in Kiev – at one of the turning-points in ... See details
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1948: A Soldier’s Tale
Charles Glass writes:
Uri Avnery’s two wartime memoirs, now collected as 1948: A Soldier’s Tale, were published in Hebrew in 1949 and 1950. In the first of them, In the Fields of the Philistines, the 25-year-old Avnery is an infantryman desperate for action; in the seco...
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Hornsey 1968: The Art School Revolution
London’s ’68 évènements are perhaps the least remembered of the various uprisings and rebellions that spread across the globe in that iconic year. At the heart of them was the six-week long occupation of Hornsey Art College, beginning on May 28. Lisa Tickner, who describes herself as a ‘participa... See details
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Michael Wood writes:
Each section of the book is titled ‘The Part about . . .’: there is ‘The Part about the Critics’, ‘The Part about Amalfitano’, ‘The Part about Fate’, ‘The Part about the Crimes’ and ‘The Part about Archimboldi’. The first and the fifth parts meet up since the criti...
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