As featured in the North-West Labor History Journal no. 49
Peter Darby

"Britain’s Iron Chancellor is a book that provides a greater insight into what made Philip Snowden tick than any more recent works, of which there have been few. It also offers an insight into the Labour Party’s history that is far more complex and nuanced than is often presented in other work. Snowden’s contribution to the economic orthodoxy of the early Labour Party and his relationship with MacDonald, Hardie and the Trade Union movement give a clear understanding of both how Labour succeeded in the early years of the twentieth century and how it also failed. Echoes of those failures can be seen in subsequent decades, especially in the at times deep antagonism felt between the Parliamentary Party and the Trade Union movement, an antagonism laid bare in Snowden’s autobiography. Philip Snowden was certainly a product of his time and his autobiography, complex in the tight rope it walks between a personal memoir and an attempt to create an authoritative history of the period in.. Read more
Will Barber-Taylor; The Social Review

“Iconoclastic, documented, candid, compelling, informed and informative… a very worthwhile and recommended addition to the growing body of World War II histories and biographies. ...is strongly commended for personal, community, and college/university library World II collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists.” Read the full review [link=https://www.midwestbookreview.com/rbw/sep_24.htm#clinttravis]here.[/link]
Midwest Book Review

"The information in this book contains details of several invasion plans, including numbers of ships and troops, that could be used to provide an historical background to a campaign. Alternatively, the clandestine activities of English or Irish revolutionaries and government agents might form a background for roleplay or skirmish games..."
Miniature Wargames

Just because women have been formally excluded from politics for much of recorded history does not mean they have not been political actors. Even when disenfranchised and denied equal rights, women have fought for causes important to women and all people. Political Women by historian Professor Maggie Andrews (2024, Pen & Sword History) demonstrates this by exploring fifteen campaigns led by British women during the twentieth century that shaped the current century. Read the full review [link=https://abitofhistoryblog.com/2024/05/10/what-women-want-a-review-of-political-women-by-maggie-andrews/]here[/link]/
Victoria Martínez