history, books, lifestyle
In this post, I am going to be looking at John L. Gaddis’s article Intelligence, Espionage, and Cold War Origins. Gaddis is best known as a post-revisionist/orthodox-leaning Cold War historian, but in this article, he specifically analyses intelligence. He asks why it has often been treated as a marginal topic in Cold War scholarship, despite… Continue reading The Past Through Pages: Intelligence, Espionage, and Cold War Origins, John L. Gaddis
In this post, I am going to be analysing Richard J. Aldrich’s Policing the Past: Official History, Secrecy and British Intelligence Since 1945 article from the English Historical Review. I found this article very interesting as it examines intelligence history while also asking bigger questions about who gets to write history, how secrecy shapes archives,… Continue reading The Past Through Pages: Policing the Past, Richard J. Aldrich
Instead of a usual post in this series, I have decided to attach an essay of mine answering the question 'Was the Partition of India inevitable?' As this essay covers the arguments of many books, articles and historians on a variety of different topics in relation to the causes Partition, I have been able to… Continue reading The Past Through Pages: Causes of the Partition of India
To bring greater variety to the material I’m exploring in my Past Through Pages series, this post compares two articles on the Cold War. This allows me to explore how historians have shifted in their approach to the Cold War over time, moving beyond the traditional East-West divide and towards a more global appreciation of… Continue reading The Past Through Pages: The Global Cold War
As part of this new series of blog posts, I will be exploring different historical figures and events, focusing mainly on espionage history, but also researching other areas of 20th century history. I am going to explore these topics by reading books about them so I plan to incorporate short book reviews into these blog… Continue reading The Past Through Pages: The Cambridge Five
In this post I'll be giving you a list of a few of the history/historical fiction books that I would like to read in the next few months! For every book I will also be including the goodreads summary to give you a better idea of the themes and storyline of each book. The Nightingale,… Continue reading My History/Historical Fiction TBR
Rating - ☆☆☆☆/5 Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a beautiful piece of historical fiction, allowing readers to reflect on the resilience of the human spirit through the lens of WWII. The book explores the complexities of war through the two vastly different but eventually interconnected protagonists' stories. Marie-Laure and her father flee Nazi-occupied Paris… Continue reading All The Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
Survive the Night, Riley Sager Rating - ☆☆☆☆/5 'Survive the Night' takes place in 1991, and follows the story of Charlie Jordan, a college student who is on her way home for the summer after the murder of her best friend. Charlie decides to take a ride with a stranger named Josh, who claims to… Continue reading Mystery/ Thriller Recommendations (my top 5 + ratings)
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