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“... Protestants: On Shifting Ground by Susan McKay (Blackstaff, 368 pp., £16.99, May 2021, 978 1 78073 264 3)Modernism, Empire, World Literature by Joe Cleary (Cambridge, 326 pp., £29.99, June 2021, 978 1 108 49235 5)The Irish Expatriate Novel in Late Capitalist Globalisation by Joe Cleary (Cambridge, 280 ...”

“... Field Notes from a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert (Bloomsbury, 210 pp., £14.99, June 2006, 978 0 7475 8383 7) Dictionary of Environment and Conservation by Chris Park (Oxford, 522 pp., £19.99, November 2006, 978 0 19 860995 7) After Eden: The Evolution of Human Domination by Kirkpatrick Sale (Duke, 186 ...”

“... London. It appears in a new book of his work, London Life (Spitalfields Life, 285 pp., £25, June, 978 0 9576569 5 6), that proves there were things in the world before Google, and places before Google Maps. In the way of modern preservations, one of the gasometers (after a facelift in Yorkshire) came back to King’s Cross in 2013 and now lives a ...”

“... to Become the Lovely Lady She Is Today by Kate Bornstein (Beacon, 258 pp., £11.30, July 2013, 978 0 8070 0183 7) Dear Sir or Madam by Mark Rees (Mallard, £8, Kindle edition) Trans: A Memoir by Juliet Jacques (Verso, 330 pp., £16.99, September 2015, 978 1 7847 8164 4) The Transgender Studies Reader, edited by Susan ...”

“... Uncovering the Global Food Scandal by Tristram Stuart.Penguin, 496 pp., £9.99, July 2009, 978 0 14 103634 2Eat Your Heart Out: Why the Food Business Is Bad for the Planet and Your Health by Felicity Lawrence.Penguin, 352 pp., £8.99, June 2008, 978 0 14 102601 5Hungry City: How Food Shapes our Lives by ...”

“... of this piece:Charlotte Brontë: A Life by Claire Harman (Penguin, 446 pp., £9.99, April 2016, 978 0 241 96366 1)The Brontës: A Life in Letters by Juliet Barker (Little, Brown, 464 pp., £25, April 2016, 978 1 4087 0831 6)Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World by Lyndall Gordon (Virago, 325 ...”

“... an attempt to redeem the reputation of Æthelred II, king of England, with one interruption, from 978 to 1016. This is a hard task, as the book’s title concedes: Æthelred has been known as ‘the Unready’ for around a thousand years. Ever since 1066 and All That (originally a parody of Oxford University exam papers) he has also been logged as ‘the ...”

“... text was written after 8 July 975, the day Edgar died, and before Edward was murdered on 18 March 978: the annalist knew Edward was king but didn’t know how long he would live. Not at all, Professor Janet Bately replies: it would be very unusual for an annalist to start reckoning the lifespan of a young king as soon as he’d succeeded. More likely, the ...”

“... By 1995, there were 37 monuments and 113 plaques dedicated to Jean Moulin in France; 978 boulevards, avenues, streets, squares, bridges and stadiums were named after him, as well as more than 365 schools, including one university. There are even more today; only de Gaulle is more honoured. And yet at the time of his death at the hands of Nazi torturers in the first days of July 1943, Moulin was unknown even among the elite circles of the day ...”

“... among royals was guaranteed to cause discord between half-brothers and incite stepmothers. In 978, King Edward the Martyr was killed at Corfe Castle, a murder generally blamed on his stepmother, Ælfthryth, who wanted to see her own son Æthelred on the throne. Æthelred duly succeeded, but under a cloud of suspicion and disapproval. This no doubt ...”

“... by Lawrence Rinder with Matthew Riggs and Kevin Killian (California, 179 pp., £16.98, July, 978 0 97193979 0) Martín Ramírez by Brooke Davis Anderson (Marquand and the American Folk Art Museum, 2007) Martín Ramírez: The Last Works by Brooke Davis Anderson (Pomegranate, 2008) Henry Darger edited by Klaus Biesenbach (Prestel, 2009) Everyday ...”