
Book Review: A History of the Crusades
G5th July 2018
There is surely no greater folly committed by Western Europe than the Crusades of the twelfth century; a toxic mix of economic expansionism and religious zealotry.

Book review: Byzantium
G20th March 2018
Judith Herrin’s Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire takes the reader on an exciting journey through the eastern half of the Roman Empire.

Book Review: The Holy Roman Empire
G28th January 2018
Few questions are left unanswered in Peter H. Wilson’s mighty book about the rise and fall of the Holy Roman Empire.

Book review: Dick Hamer, the liberal Liberal
G21st September 2017
Tim Colebatch’s biography of one of Victoria’s most-loved Premiers.

Book Review: A History of Christianity
G8th February 2017
Christianity is the biggest religion in the world with 2.2 billion adherents, but it wasn’t always so. Here’s a look at Diarmaid MacCulloch’s epic history of one of the world’s great religions.