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An original history of Russia s thousand year past tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin s politics and rekindled the Cold War Vladimir Putin s invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history In the decades after the collapse of Soviet communism the West convinced itself that liberal democracy would henceforth be the dominant ultimately unique system of governance a hubris that shaped how the West would treat Russia for the next two decades But history wasn t over Putin is a paradox In the early years of his presidency he appeared to commit himself to friendship with the West suggesting that Russia could join the European Union or even NATO He said he supported free market democracy and civil rights But the Putin of those years is unrecognisable today The Putin of the 2020s is an autocratic nationalist dedicated to repression at home and anti Western militarism abroad So what happened Was he lying when he proclaimed his support for freedom democracy and friendship with the West Or was he sincere Did he change his views at some stage between then and now And if that is the case what happened to change him Putin and the Return of History examines these questions in the context of Russia s thousand year past tracing the forces and

A spicy and original romp through Russian history ROBERT SERVICE Poignant comical and in the best sense disturbing PAUL FREEDMAN AUTHOR OF TEN RESTAURANTS THAT CHANGED AMERICA This wickedly delicious tale uncovers the secret gustatory history of the Kremlin and will leave you begging for seconds DOUGLAS SMITH AUTHOR OF RASPUTIN FAITH POWER AND THE TWILIGHT OF THE ROMANOVSWhat s Cooking in the Kremlin is a tale of feast and famine told from the kitchen the narrative of one of the most complex troubling and fascinating nations on earth We will travel through Putin s Russia with acclaimed author Witold Szablowski as he learns the story of the chef who was shot alongside the Romonovs and the Ukrainian woman who survived the Great Famine created by Stalin and still weeps with guilt the soldiers on the Eastern front who roasted snails and made nettle soup as they fought back Hitler s army the woman who cooked for Yuri Gagarin and the cosmonauts and the man who ran the Kremlin kitchen during the years of plenty under Brezhnev We will hear from the women who fed the firefighters at Chernobyl and the story of the Crimean Tatars who returned to their homeland after decades of exile only to flee once Russia invaded Crimea again in 2014 In tracking do

Delicious Wonderful Guardian Fascinating Full of incident and food for thought Mail on Sunday Delightful Vogler offers up a feast of tales about popular British foods Financial Times A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A WATERSTONES BEST FOOD & DRINK BOOK OF 2023 The fascinating history of the people the ideas and the dishes that have fed and starved the nation by the author of the Sunday Times bestselling Scoff In times of plenty we stuff ourselves When the food runs out we re stuffed too How have people in the British Isles shared the riches from our fields dairies kitchens and seas as well as those from around the world And when the cupboard is bare who steps up to the plate to feed the nation s hungry children soldiers at war or families in crisis Stuffed tells the stories of the food and drink at the centre of social upheavals from prehistory to the present the medieval inns boosted by the plague the Enclosures that finished off the celebratory roast goose the Victorian chemist searching for unadulterated mustard the post war supermarkets luring customers with strawberries Drawing on cookbooks literature and social records Pen Vogler reveals how these turning points have led to today s extremes of plenty and want roast b

A riveting and important read forensically documenting the state s failings while also relating the traumatic human fallout for a whole community for whom life would never be the same again Mick Clifford Meticulously compiled and unflinching yet sensitive this is an exceptional record of a story that should never have happened Irish Independent A gripping page turner deftly balancing information analysis and human story and offers a single location where we can go to get our heads around one of the worst disasters in recent Irish history The Irish Times In 1981 the Stardust nightclub in Dublin was a beacon for the city s nightlife until it became a nightmare On that fateful Valentine s Day the dance floor became a scene of horror as flames engulfed the venue claiming the lives of 48 young people and leaving the survivors scarred forever In this gripping account the harrowing true story is revealed citing new evidence brought forward during recent inquests in the relentless pursuit of justice Through the eyes of the survivors the families and investigators compiled with meticulous research and compassionate portrayals of their voices this poignant book honours the memories of those who were lost while shedding light on the tragedy that st

The people and publications at the root of a national obsession In the century between the accession of Elizabeth I and the restoration of Charles II a horticultural revolution took place in England making it a leading player in the European horticultural game Ideas were exchanged across networks of gardeners botanists scholars and courtiers and the burgeoning vernacular book trade spread this new knowledge still further reaching even the growing number of gardeners furnishing their more modest plots across the verdant nation and its young colonies in the Americas Margaret Willes introduces a plethora of garden enthusiasts from the renowned to the legions of anonymous workers who created and tended the great estates Packed with illustrations from the herbals design treatises and practical manuals that inspired these men and occasionally women Willes s book enthrallingly charts how England s garden grew

Eastern Eye s Non Fiction Book of the Year 2023 The UK is grappling with big questions about belonging equality and the legacies of Empire and Colonialism We ve been here before Embracing a broader history that encompasses all British people The Shoulders We Stand On is fundamental to a better understanding of the past and gives many more people who fought for our future a voice in the present One of the most important books I ve ever read this history matters and should never ever be forgotten Dr Priya Atwal Royals and Rebels Have you heard of the Indian Workers Association The Grunwick Strike The Brixton Black Women s Group The Battle of Brick Lane If the answer is no you re not alone The Shoulders We Stand On tells the stories of ten remarkable movements campaigns and organisations led by Black and Brown people across Britain from the sixties to the eighties that fought against racism and capitalism and impacted the way we live now Researcher and historian Preeti Dhillon wants us to reclaim the history that has been kept from us and use these vital movements and inspirational moments to better understand the UK we live in today and how change happens There is a long and deep history of activism by Black and Brown people spanning

This pioneering work by Thomas Piketty explains the facts and dynamics of income inequality in France in the twentieth century On its publication in French in 2001 it helped launch the international program led by Piketty and others to explore the grand patterns and causes of global inequality research that has since transformed public debate

From the end of WWI to the 1950s a group of British writers and artists including George Orwell Barbara Jones and Dylan Thomas forged a politics that resisted the empty idealism of their age Celebrating the wisdom and pragmatism of ordinary life they offered a remedy for the destructive polarization that afflicts us again today

Paris to New York shows how competition and cooperation between transatlantic designers and entrepreneurs built the groundwork of today s international fashion industry Véronique Pouillard tells the story of the fashion business as a negotiation between art and commerce and explores the complex relationship between these iconic fashion centers

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERIn his ground-breaking new book, Sathnam Sanghera traces the legacies of British empire around the world.A wonderful book Rory StewartNuanced and deeply researched Financial TimesNot just a welcome corrective but a book for our times Peter Frankopan_____________________________________________________The British empire was built on slavery, but it also pioneered abolition.It spread democracy, but it also seeded geopolitical instability.It devastated nature but it also gave birth to modern notions of environmentalism.In this urgent sequel to Empireland, award-winning author and journalist Sathnam Sanghera extends his examination of British imperial legacies beyond Britain to the wider world.Travelling across outposts of the former empire from Barbados and Mauritius to India and Nigeria and beyond, Sanghera puts to bed the conventional balance-sheet view of imperial history where the good is merely weighed up against the bad. In Empireworld, Sanghera instead seeks out nuance to reveal how contradictory forces of the British empire have shaped our world and what they mean for our place within it today.

The brand new book by Pen Vogler Stuffed is available now THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Book of the Year in the Daily Mail Independent Spectator and The Times & Sunday Times Finalist for the Guild of Food Writers Food Book Award 2021 Sharp rich and superbly readable Fascinating Sunday Times Utterly delicious Observer Superb Book of the Week The Times Terrific Book of the Week Guardian I loved it Monty Don A brilliant romp of a book Jay Rayner Avocado or beans on toast Gin or claret Nut roast or game pie Milk in first or milk in last And do you have tea dinner or supper in the evening In this fascinating social history of food in Britain Pen Vogler examines the origins of our eating habits and reveals how they are loaded with centuries of class prejudice Covering such topics as fish and chips roast beef avocados tripe fish knives and the surprising origins of breakfast Scoff reveals how in Britain we have become experts at using eating habits to make judgements about social background Bringing together evidence from cookbooks literature artworks and social records from 1066 to the present Vogler traces the changing fortunes of the food we encounter today and unpicks the aspirations and prejudices of the

In June 1609 two judges left Bordeaux for a territory at the very edge of their jurisdiction a Basque speaking province on the Atlantic coast called the Pays de Labourd In four months they executed up to 80 women and men for the crime of witchcraft causing a wave of suspects to flee into Spain and sparking terror there Witnesses many of them children described lurid tales of cannibalism vampirism and demonic sex One of the judges Pierre de Lancre published a sensationalist account of this diabolical netherworld With other accounts seemingly destroyed this witch hunt France s largest has always been seen through de Lancre s eyes The narrative re told over the centuries is that of a witch hunt caused by a bigoted outsider Newly discovered evidence paints a very different still darker picture revealing a secret history underneath de Lancre s well known tale Far from an outside imposition witchcraft was a home grown problem Panic had been building up over a number of years and the region was fractured by factionalism and a struggle over scarce resources The Basque Witch Hunt reveals that de Lancre was no outsider he was a local partisan married into the Basque nobility Living at the Franco Spanish border the Basques were victims of geograp

Delicious Wonderful Guardian Fascinating Full of incident and food for thought Mail on Sunday Delightful Vogler offers up a feast of tales about popular British foods Financial Times A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A WATERSTONES BEST FOOD & DRINK BOOK OF 2023 The fascinating history of the people the ideas and the dishes that have fed and starved the nation by the author of the Sunday Times bestselling Scoff In times of plenty we stuff ourselves When the food runs out we re stuffed too How have people in the British Isles shared the riches from our fields dairies kitchens and seas as well as those from around the world And when the cupboard is bare who steps up to the plate to feed the nation s hungry children soldiers at war or families in crisis Stuffed tells the stories of the food and drink at the centre of social upheavals from prehistory to the present the medieval inns boosted by the plague the Enclosures that finished off the celebratory roast goose the Victorian chemist searching for unadulterated mustard the post war supermarkets luring customers with strawberries Drawing on cookbooks literature and social records Pen Vogler reveals how these turning points have led to today s extremes of plenty and want roast b

Brilliant hilarious My book of the year INDIA KNIGHT A wonderful book CRAIG BROWN Mail on Sunday Funny bloodcurdling and moving Daily Mail The cruel teachers The pashes on other girls The gossip The giggles The awful food The homesickness The friendships made for life The shivering cold Games of lacrosse and cricket The girls boarding school What a ripe theme for the most observant verbal artist in our midst today the absurdly undersung Ysenda Maxtone Graham who has the beadiness and nosiness of the best investigative reporter the wit of Jane Austen and a take on life which is like no one else s This book has been my constant companion ever since it appeared A N WILSON Evening Standard