I want to start with a welcome to Ruth Hutchinson, who, after a long deliberation, has agreed to write for this website. I have allotted her a page. My Website/blog will soon be approaching 500 articles. Started in 2008 as a vanity project, has mushroomed into something more serious and worthwhile. My thanks to Chris Thomspon, who has supported this effort. Of course, we don’t see eye to many things, but we both share a passion for history, which is enough for me.
From my standpoint, the most important event of 2025 will be
the publication of Michael Braddick’s long-awaited biography of Christopher
Hill. It must be said that it is shameful that this great historian has never
had a biography. As Ann Talbot said, “ As a historian, he stands head and
shoulders above his detractors, and his books deserve to be read and reread,
and if with a critical eye, it should always be with the knowledge that his
limitations and faults as much as his great historical insights and innovations
are the product of his time. He may be bettered but never dismissed and only
bettered by those who have studied him closely.”[1]
Two thousand twenty-five promises to be a momentous year.
The election of a Fascist in the White House is a trigger event. I will seek to
expand the scope of the website and invite anyone to write for the site. In the
first part of the year, I will assemble further essays on why I write. So I would
like to invite David Unger and Christopher Thompson if they want to do
something. I intend to release these articles as an ebook on Amazon in the
early part of 2025. I will create a new page on the Portuguese Revolution of 1974.
Books Purchased Recently
1.
On the Edge -Martin Keown
2.
Sober -Tony Adams
3.
Crack up Capitalism Quinn Slobodian
4.
To Overthrow the World – Seran McMeekin
5.
The Writers Castle-Uwe Neumahr
6.
What in Me is Dark- Orlando Reade
7.
Bystander Society-Mary Fulbrook
8.
Oliver Cromwell-Ronald Hutton
9.
The Mirror and the Light- Hilary Mantel
10. The
Dreadful History and Judgement of God on Thomas Munder-Andrew Drummond
11. The
Carnation Revolution- Alex Fernandes
12. The
Complete Memoirs- Pablo Neruda
13. The
Struggle Against Fascism in Germany-Leon Trotsky
14. A
Life in Politics- Paul Foot
15. You
Can’t Please All-Tariq Ali
16. If
Only Vigdis Hjorth
17. Dear
Oliver- Susan Barry
Pamphlets
1.
The Portuguese Revolution-Mark Osborn-Workers
Liberty
Meetings/ Lectures
Friday, February 14 LRB Winter Lectures | Perry
Anderson: Regime Change in the West
