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Titanic mistakes

Titanic mistakes

14 January 2012

Titanic Lives: Migrants and Millionaires, Conmen and Crew

Richard Davenport-Hines

Reviewed by David Crane

Categories: Titanic thompson

More big questions

The Science Delusion

Rupert Sheldrake

Reviewed by James Le Fanu

Categories: Funding , Science

A waist of shame

A waist of shame

14 January 2012

Calories and Corsets: A History of Diets and Dieting Over 2000 Years

Louise Foxcroft

Reviewed by Cressida Connolly

Categories: Book review , Diet , Food , Non-fiction

Chaps v. Japs

Escape from Hong Kong: Admiral Chan Chak’s Christmas Day Dash, 1941

Tim Luard

Reviewed by Jonathan Mirsky

Categories: Burma , China , Churchill , Japan , World War 2

The past is another city

The past is another city

14 January 2012

Panoramas of Lost London: Work, Wealth, Poverty and Change, 1870-1945

Philip Davies

Reviewed by Richard Shone

Categories: Book review , History , London , Photography

...by: Alain de Botton

Some porn: Modern Architecture since 1900, by William Curtis. Full of beautiful images and thought-provoking words.

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