This repository holds the source code for the website popularhistorybooks.com.
It is powered by Eleventy, a lightweight static site generator. Blurb: all the power of a server-side framework but it builds plain HTML files for fast loading by your visitors.
More information on how the site is put together can be found on the website itself, in the tech acknowledgements page (link in the page footer).
This website is a blog for reading and reviewing popular history books. We review great (hopefully!) new (probably...) history (certainly 🙂) books. Also with occasional opinion pieces on the study of history.
Glitch was a friendly community where millions of people come together to build web apps and websites. Unfortunately it closed down in July 2025, but I feel it deserves this memorialisation!
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