Reviews
A History of Britain in Thirty-Six Postage Stamps
I love Big Fat History Books, full of footnotes (no endnotes, please) and academic caution. But I also love small, idiosyncratic books about history: books that look at the past through one person’s obsessions and interest. Chris West combined an uncle’s Edwardian stamp collection with his own interest in history to create a quirky and…
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Victorian People
Asa Briggs’ Victorian People first crossed my path again when A. Scott Berg unexpectedly quoted Briggs in his new biography of Woodrow Wilson.* (Coming soon to a blog post near you.) Soon I was stumbling over it everywhere–a phenomenon I’ve commented on before. When I needed to check a quick fact about the Crimean war…
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The Allure of the Archives
The tagline for History in the Margins reads “A blog about history, writing, and writing about history.” (If you’re reading this through e-mail you may never have seen it. Click on the title of the post and look at the top of the page. It’s worth doing at least once because my blog design is…
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