Monthly Archives: December 2025

The Stepaniak code…

Posted on December 30, 2025 by dgm

Recently, I’ve been rereading Death of a Schoolboy by Hans Koning. Long out of print it’s a novel about Gavrilo Princip, the assassin of Franz Ferdinand and paints a compelling portrait of alienation and radicalisation. It’s also one of the … Continue reading →

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Stalin in London

Posted on December 27, 2025 by dgm

Earlier this year I read ‘Young Stalin‘ by Simon Sebag-Montefiore – the book was published nearly twenty years ago but is still an interesting read. (The book is still in print and second hand copies are available online for a … Continue reading →

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Snow on their boots

Posted on December 21, 2025 by dgm

I’ve been working up at the Athenaeum for one morning a week cataloguing their historic book collection, and last Friday I catalogued some books written by Ursula Bloom. There seemed to be rather a lot of books by Ms Bloom, … Continue reading →

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