History

Reviews of history books.

Book Review: ‘Threads’ by Julia Blackburn

The Delicate Life of John Craske.
Book review: ‘Humanism’ by Stephen Law

A very short introduction.
Book review: ‘The Enlightenment’ by John Robertson

A very short introduction.
Book review: ‘The History of Life’ by Michael J Benton

A very short introduction.
Book review: ‘The Ice Age’ by Jamie Woodward

A very short introduction.
Book review: ‘The Edge of the World’ by Michael Pye

How the North Sea made us who we are.
Book review: ‘The Invention of Nature’ by Andrea Wulf

The adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the lost hero of science.
Book review: ‘The Invention of Science’ by David Wootton

A new history of the Scientific Revolution by David Wootton.
Book review: ‘Wanderlust’ by Rebecca Solnit

A history of walking.
Books by or about W. G. Sebald

A list of Sebald-related books reviewed on this site.