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Covers:  British and European history, history of religion/Christianity, cultural and political history, Canada.

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I read books and write about them. I'm interested in the history of religions, monarchies and empires and in British, European and Canadian history from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century.

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‘On the Altar’ by Jonathan Sheehan review

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By Michael Ledger-Lomas
| History Today Verified
‘The Key to All Mythologies’ was the great project of the Reverend Edward Casaubon, the desiccated clergyman who blights Dorothea Brooke’s life in George Eliot’s Middlemarch (1868). Casaubon’s formless, unfinished manuscript quoted many a dusty treatise to argue that all ancient myths were distorted versions of the Hebrew Scriptures. The intellectual historian Jonathan Sheehan shares Eliot’s amused interest in the steepling ambitions of Christian antiquarians.
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Pattern in the Carpet

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By Michael Ledger-Lomas
| London Review of Books Verified
ACatholic​ policeman in wartime Sierra Leone finds himself in an almost mathematical bind. It would be a mortal sin for Henry Scobie not to go to Mass with his wife, Louise, but if he does not take Communion when they go, she will suspect that he has been having sex with a young widow. Although he tries the confessional beforehand, he cannot receive absolution because he refuses to obey Father Rank’s instruction to steer clear of Helen Rolt.
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Petro-Separatism on the Prairies Michael Ledger-Lomas

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By Michael Ledger-Lomas
| The BREAK—DOWN
Published 22 June 2026 Related This October, the province of Alberta intends to ask its voters the following convoluted question: “Should Alberta remain a province of Canada or should the Government of Alberta commence the legal process required under the Canadian Constitution to hold a binding provincial referendum on whether or not Alberta should separate from Canada?” If this would at first seem to be a rather abstruse constitutional wrangle—a headache for a weak and geographically...
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