Alex Middleton

Whatever any reader knows about pubs, they will still learn more from this book

History is a wonderful guide to political practice in the present, just so long as nothing is different

Socialists, communists and liberals were united by a conviction that free trade could, and would, promote democracy and justice

A new history beautifully distils revolutionary cultures in post-Napoleonic Europe

Popular history can be more than everything ribald and rip-roaring and frenetic and fun