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From blog author Natalie Bennett

Philobiblon started life in July 2004 as a mostly women’s history blog, back in the days when newsreaders still said “a blog is an online diary” every time they used the word. Back then I was working on a history book that became a series of four history books that I still hope to get back to one day. History still has a strong place, although usually with a political slant.

Where does the name come from? This early post explains. And this blog also has a “patron saint”, Anne Clifford.

It’s charted quite a bit of my political life since I joined the Green Party in January 2006, and these days is mostly a books blog (often to record readings/ideas/facts for myself, as well as to share with others – that’s why you’ll often find page references), with an occasional line in short commentary/linkage that won’t fit on Twitter.

A few favourite posts from over the years:

Green politics

The latest on the state of world agriculture, and how far we have to go to fix it

Can we choose to descend to a less intensive, simpler level of technology and organisation?

What drives the super-rich?

Water, soil, climate: which will crack first?

Want to understand our current mess?

Feminism

Afghan women: whatever happened to that cause?

After the Dorries amendment – where next for the pro-choice movement?

A great women’s art!

The origins of the gender binary? Reflections on Vigdis Songe-Moller’s Philosophy Without Women