The financial columnist and commentator is at the Edinburgh Fringe with "The Butcher, The Brewer, The Baker and Merryn Somerset Webb" on 22 August.

Captives and Companions

A timely – and riveting – reminder in an age of binary thinking that the history of slavery is far wider than the Atlantic trade. Marozzi takes us from the multi-century trade across the Sahara to slave raids on the Cornish coast in the 1600s, and confirms that – albeit "more covertly" – this nasty system continues today.

Revolutionary Spring

In 1848, revolution – driven by political and financial inequality – spread across Europe . In the end, most uprisings were seen to have failed. But maybe they didn't – they left a changed Europe behind them. Today's revolutions may be less violent, but the sentiment is not.

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