Books bought new or second-hand recently, including the recent biography and graphic novel Marc Bloch: L’historien combattant, and some older books. The Agamben books are for teaching next academic year – Where are we now? collects his pandemic writings, which I’ll have to discuss. The oldest book is a first edition of Fernand Braudel’s La Mediterranée et le monde mediterranéen à l’époque de Philippe II. A former library book from the University of Durham collection, it was considerably cheaper than most copies of the 1949 version, expanded in 1966 and revised at least once more.