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[[Category:New Reviews|History]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- Woolf -->{{Frontpage|-| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|0578761718[[image:Woolf_Great.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1910985880?ietitle=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1910985880]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Great Horizon: 50 Tales of Exploration by Jo Woolf]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|Inspiring History]], [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] Jo Woolf has compiled a brilliant set of fifty short insights into the lives and achievements of some amazingly brave people. Their fearless journeys have helped us unlock many of the mysteries of the wildest parts of our world, and also given us an understanding of what it is like to be faced with the most terrible conditions and still have the determination and grit to carry on. This book could be viewed as a taster which encourages us to seek out and read more about some of the most iconic explorers. Their stories are pretty incredible and Woolf does them justice. [[The Great Horizon: 50 Tales of Exploration by Jo Woolf|Full Review]] <!-- Hailstone -->Special Relationship|-| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Nancy Carver[[image:Hailstone_Berlin.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www.amazon4.co.uk/gp/product/1445672901?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445672901]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Berlin in the Cold War: 1959 to 1966 by Allan Hailstone]]===5 [[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]], [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] ''Berlin in the Cold War: 1959-1966'' contains almost 200 photographs taken by author / photographer Allan Hailstone in his visits to the city during this period. The images provide an insight into the changing nature of the divide between East and West Berlin and a glimpse into life in the city during the Cold War. [[Berlin in the Cold War: 1959 to 1966 by Allan Hailstone|Full Review]] <!-- Moorehead -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Moorehead_Russian.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445667320?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445667320]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Russian Revolution by Alan Moorehead]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]] The author was writing from a slightly different stance from most other historians. Only a decade after the end church of the Second World War, he was basing his account on the premise that the Nazis' rise to power in Germany was connected with the heritage that Lenin St Mary Aldermanbuy had left behind, and that without Stalin's assurances of support Hitler would never have dared to plunge the world into such a devastating global conflict. It was his belief that America's post-war commitments existed in Europe and the Far East, and other post-1945 developments, could also be traced back to the events City of 1917. Much of his material came London from German archives which were saved from destruction at least 1181, when the Third Reich it was on the brink of collapse. These documents that the German government would have kept private had they won the war provided full detail on the attempts of their forebears to pave the way for chaos and revolution first mentioned in their Asiatic neighbourrecords.[[The Russian Revolution by Alan Moorehead|Full Review]] <!-- Mourby -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Mourby_Rooms.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785782754?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785782754]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Rooms with a View: The Secret Life of Great Hotels by Adrian Mourby]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]]Sadly, [[:Category:History|History]] Adrian Mourby has given us a flying visit to each of fifty grand hotels, from fourteen regions of the world, with the hotels in each section being arranged chronologically rather than by region, which helps to give something of an overall picture. So what makes a hotel 'grand'? The first hotel to call itself 'grand' original church was in covent Garden in 1774 and it ushered destroyed in the beginning Great Fire of a period when a hotel would be a lifestyle choice rather than a refuge for those without friends and family conveniently nearbyLondon in 1666. The hotels we visit all began life It was rebuilt in different circumstances and each faced Portland stone from a different set of challenges. We begin in design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the Americas, move to the United Kingdom, circumnavigate Europe, briefly visit Russia fire and Turkey then northern Africa, India and Asia. Australiasurvived for centuries until World War II, when it seems, does not go for was again ruined by bombs during the grandBlitz. [[Rooms with a View: The Secret Life But that wasn't the end of Great Hotels by Adrian Mourby|Full Review]] <!-- Anderson -->|-| style="widthits story: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Anderson_Fantasyland.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785038656?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785038656]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]], [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] Fantasyland covers the history of America from 1517 to 2017 in awesome detail. Covering five centuries of tempestuous historyafter a phenomenal fundraising effort, Andersen paints the conjuring of America in vivid relief. Discussing everything stones from pilgrims to politicians, the exhilarating gold rush to alternative facts, seminal episodes are explored in forensic detail with razor sharp wit. [[Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen|Full Review]]<br> <br> <!-- Way -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Way_Tea.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445670011?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445670011]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Tea Gardens (Britainchurch's Heritage Series) by Twigs Way]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]]walls were transported to Fulton, [[:Category:History|History]] Tea Gardens really began in London in the late 18th century: a trip to Kings Cross or St Pancras was effectively a trip to the country in those daysMissouri. Men had their coffee housesThere, but they were not places where women could or would be seen. Tea was introduced to England in the 17th century but it was not until 1784 that the high duty was reduced from 119% to 12½% and tea became the drink grounds of choice for Westminster College, the nation. Until then the working classes had been fuelled largely by cheap gin. Only, where would this beverage be drunk? One answer church was the pleasure gardens where the fashionable went to see rebuilt and be seen: by the mid 1600s tea was also being served in places such today serves as Ranelagh Gardensa memorial to Winston Churchill. [[Tea Gardens (Britain's Heritage Series) by Twigs Way|Full Review]]}}<!-- Stewart -->|-{{Frontpage| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|1784385166[[image:Stewart_Marches.jpg|left|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0099581892?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0099581892]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Marches by Rory Stewart]]=== [[imageThird Reich in 100 Objects:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:History|A Material History]] The Observer quote on the front of the paperback edition of Stewart's latest book observes ''This is travel writing at its finest.'' Perhaps, but to call it travel writing is to totally under-sell it. This is erudition at its finest. Stewart has the background to do this: he had an international upbringing and followed his father in both the Army and the Foreign Office, and then (to his father's, bemusement, shall we say) became an MP. Oh, and he walked 6,000 miles across Afghanistan in 2002. A walk along the Scottish borders should be a doddle by comparison. [[The Marches by Rory Stewart|Full Review]] <!-- Parker -->Nazi Germany|-author=Roger Moorhouse| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Parker_50.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1784937908?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1784937908]] 5| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[50 Things You Should Know About the Vikings by Philip Parker]]==genre=History [[image:4.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:History|History]] The Vikings have got a lot to own up to. A huge DNA study in 2014 was What is the first thing image that proved comes to the Orkney residents that they had Viking blood in their veins – they had been insisting it was that mind when you think of the Irish. Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The Vikings it was that forced our English king's army to march from London to Yorkshire to kill off one invasion, only to spend the next fortnight schlepping back to Hastings to try and fend off another – and the Normans had the same Norse origin as the first lot, hence the name. There is a Thames Valley village just outside Henley – ie pretty damned far from the coast – that has a Viking longship on its signpost. Yes, they got gate to a lot concentration camp? None of places, from Greenland to Kiev, from Murmansk to Turkey and the Med, and their misaligned history is well worth visiting – particularly on these pages. [[50 Things You Should Know About are comfortable images but they are emblematic of the Vikings by Philip Parker|Full Review]] <!-- Maconie -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:MACONIE_lONG.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785030531/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Long Road From Jarrow by Stuart Maconie]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] I cancelled my ''Country Walking'' magazine subscription about a year ago and the only thing I miss is Stuart MaconieThird Reich's columnfascist regime in all its iniquity. His down-to-earth approach But some objects and sharp wit belie an equally sharp intellect and a soul more sensitive than he might images from that time may be willing less familiar to admityou. Let's be honest, though, I picked In this one up because of someone else's reviewshort volume, in which I spotted names like Ferryhill and Newton Aycliffe. Places I grew up in. Like Maconie I have no connection (that I know of) Roger Moorhouse has attempted to illustrate the Jarrow Crusade but when he talks about it being ''a whole matrix period of events reducible to the Third Reich through one word like Aberfan, Hillsborough, or Orgreave'' then somehow it does become part hundred of my history too. Tangentially, at leastits material artefacts. [[Long Road From Jarrow by Stuart Maconie|Full Review]] }}<!-- Kay -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Kay Vintage.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445657511?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445657511]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Vintage Kitchenalia by Emma Kay]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Cookery|Cookery]] Over the half century and more that I've been preparing meals on a regular basis I've seen food preparation move from being just something you did, to an obsession akin to a religion. My first kitchen had nothing in the way of luxury - it was there to make meals as nutritiously and economically as possible: my current kitchen is not quite state of the art, but it's equipped to a high standard and is a pleasure to work in. But what of all the equipment which went before, which paved the way to what we have now? Emma Kay is going to give you a quick trip through the history. [[Vintage Kitchenalia by Emma Kay|Full Review]] <!-- Rutherford -->Frontpage|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Rutherford_Landscape.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445669935?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445669935]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Landscape Gardens by Sarah Rutherford]]==author[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Art|Art]] My first experience of a ''big'' garden was Versailles as a teenager and whilst I was impressedLun Zhang, I didn't really like it. I felt stifled and strangely underwhelmed by the flatness of it all. As luck would have it I then saw Hampton Court and it was official: I was off big gardens. It would be many years before I revised my opinion. On a trip to Harewood House it was too hot a day to be corralled into the houseAdrien Gombeaud, so I wandered the gardens Ameziane and found they were delightful. I felt uplifted. Then a cricket match at Stowe gave me the opportunity to walk the grounds for over an hour. I was completely won over and a devotee of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown. Sarah Rutherford's ''Landscape Gardens'' was an opportunity to put him in context. [[Landscape Gardens by Sarah Rutherford|Full Review]]  <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE --> |} {{newreview|author= Philip MatyszakEdward Gauvin (translator)|title=24 Hours in Ancient RomeTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes
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|summary=I never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in the second half of their teens has other priorities, you know. I certainly didn't know of the weeks of protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and the birth of the Tank Man image, I didn't know how the area had long been a venue for political protest, and I didn't know more than a spit about the people involved on either side. This book is practically flawless in giving a general browser's context for the whole season of protests back in 1989.
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|isbn=0648684806
|title=Clara Colby: The International Suffragist
|author=John Holliday
|rating=4
|genre=Biography
|summary=The path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the USA. At the time she was just three-years-old but because of some childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to sail with her parents and three brothers. Instead, she remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and saw that she received a good education, both in and out of school. She was the only child in the household and her childhood was glorious. By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the mid-west of the United States and life was hard, as Clara was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to join the family. Clara would only know her mother for a few months: she was married for fifteen years, had ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and died in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the eldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakening.
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|isbn=1783784350
|title=This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History
|author=Esther Rutter
|rating=5
|genre=History
|summary= IIt was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, writing to people she've d never been that interested in Ancient Romemet and preparing spreadsheets. The job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. Blame my teachers, or our oh-so-dry visits January was going to Roman villas be a time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the length and breadth of the British Isles with their earnest interpretation panelsoccasional forays abroad, or perhaps I just daydreamed through all discovering and telling the interesting bits… Somehow I entered adulthood with story of wool's history and how it had made and changed the impression that all Romans were bloodthirsty and hedonistic heathens with little to recommend themlandscape. She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - 'Mea culpa'a free-range child on the farm', you might say. So when my eye fell upon Philip Matyszak's ''24 Hours in Ancient Rome'', - and its claim to introduce readers learned to the real Ancient Rome by examining the lives of ordinary peoplespin, I decided it knit and weave from her mother and her mother's friend. This was high time to update my education. And the lovely artwork on the front cover made this book all the more appealingin her blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782438564</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sharon Bennett Connolly1789017977|title= Heroines of the Medieval Ronnie and Hilda's Romance: Towards a New Life after WorldWar II|author=Wendy Williams|rating= 54|genre= History|summary= Many women Ronnie Williams was the son of Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wall. There's some doubt as to whether or not they were ever married or even Harry's birthdate: he claimed to have been born in medieval times left their mark on history1863, but as he was already many years older than Ethel and he might well have shaved a few years off his age. For a rule they have been neglected by biographers while the family was quite well-to-do but disaster struck in the 1929 Depression and historians as there is too little surviving information for them five-year-old Ronnie had to have even brief biographies adjust to themselvesa very different lifestyle. Ms Connolly has adopted an enterprising solution One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to be well-turned-out and this would stay with him throughout his life. He joined the problem by writing a general account on a broadly thematic basisarmy at eighteen in 1942.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445662647</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Nathen Amin1980891117|title=The House of BeaufortG Engleheart Pinxit 1805: The Bastard Line that Captured A year in the Crownlife of George Engleheart|author=John Webley|rating= 4.5|genre= HistoryArt|summary= The family name George Engleheart was one of Beaufort played the leading portrait miniaturists of Georgian London, with a major part in British history during career lasting from the 1770s to the Regency era. He was also one of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuriesmost prolific, painting nearly 5,000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of King George III). It therefore seems remarkable Throughout most of that little has been written about them until time he carefully recorded the appearance names of each of this his clients, and subsequently transcribed them into what is referred to as his fee book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445647648</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Josh Dean1789016304|title=The Taking War and Love: A family's testament of K-129: The Most Daring Covert Operation anguish, endurance and devotion in Historyoccupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin
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|summary=In February 1968 the Soviet nuclear missile submarine K-129 left the port Melanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and was entranced by what she discovered, particularly in ''The Diary of Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatka peninsula with a crew of 98 submarinersAnn Frank'' but then realised that her own family's stories were equally fascinating. The captain A hundred and executive officers seven thousand Jews were experienced: deported from the only factor giving cause for concern was that city during the crew had war years, but only recently returned five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to base and were expecting happen in a longer break and country with liberal values who were only back at sea because two sister ships had experienced mechanical problems and were unfit for combat controlsresistant to German occupation. The Division Commander complained Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the decision was cruel and potentially reckless. He Germans might reach the city were convinced that they would soon be proved right - pushed back, that the Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in the way that it did, but not publicly - initial protests melted away as K-129 went down with all hands in March 1968the organisers became more circumspect. It was 's an atrocity on a while before the sSoviet navy realised that it had lost one vast scale but made up of tens of thousands of its submarines and despite an extensive search they couldn't find itindividual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445674742</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martyn Beardsley1908745819|title= Waterloo Voices 1815: The Battle at First HandSurfacing|author=Kathleen Jamie|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= The battle of WaterlooSometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book, fought they tell you ''this one has your name on it''. Mostly we take them at their word, or not, but rarely do we ask them why they thought so unless it turns out that we didn't like the book. That's a midsummer day on rare experience. People who are sensitive to hearing a muddy field in Belgiumbook calling your name, brought rarely get it wrong. In this case, I was told why. The blurb speaks of the author considering ''an end to two decades older, less tethered sense of herself.'' Older. Less tethered. That's not a bad description of war in Europewhere I am. As one Add to that my love of the pivotal events natural world, of those aspects of the nineteenth centurypoetic and lyrical that are about style not form, and substance most of all, about connection. Of course, this book had my name on it. It was written for me. It would have found its way to me eventually. I am pleased to have it has inevitably been the focus of many accounts over the last two hundred yearsfall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660164</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vicky Hayward0857058320|title=Juan Altamiras' New Art of Cookery: A Spanish Friar's Kitchen NotebookLord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)
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|genre=CookeryHistory|summary=In 1745 a Spanish friary cook, Juan Altamiras, published ''Lord Of All the first edition of his Dead''New Art of Cookery, Drawn From is a journey to uncover the School of Economic Experienceauthor's lost ancestor's life and death. It contained more than two hundred recipes Cercas is searching for meat, poultry, game, salted and fresh fish, vegetables and dessertsthe meaning behind his great uncle's death in the Spanish Civil War. The style was informalManuel Mena, chatty and humorous on occasions and it was aimedCercas' great uncle, not at those is the figure who could afford to cook on a grand scale, but at those with more modest budgets, who sometimes needed to cook for looms large numbersover the book. Whilst the ingredients were - He died relatively young whilst fighting for the most part - modestly priced there is a stress Francisco Franco's forces. Cercas ruminates on the careful combination of flavours and aromaswhy his uncle fought for this dictator. Spices are used conservatively and The question at the bluntness centre of some Moorish cooking this book is eschewed in favour of something much more subtle and we see influences from Altamiras' own region, Aragon, whether it is possible for his great uncle to be a hero whilst having fought for the Iberian court and the New Worldwrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1442279419</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Susan Duxbury-Neumann0008294011|title= What Have the Germans Ever Done for Us?How to Lose a Country: A History of the German Population of Great BritainThe 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= The adapted Monty Pythonesque rhetorical A little while ago a friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the question takes some time ''Discuss the factors which led to provide ...'' I agreed that she was right and wasn't certain whether it was a full answergood or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was leading to. I think now that I do know. We are in danger of losing democracy and whilst it's a flawed system I can't think of a better one, and this slim but useful volume does so very wellparticularly as the 'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445664860</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Gillian Tindall1788037812|title= The Tunnel Through TimeFraternity of the Estranged: A New Route The Fight for an Old London JourneyHomosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary=This book traces Originally passed in 1885, the course of historical journeys across the city law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time , restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and space1908, examining how three books on the areas above nature of homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the margins of society and studying homosexuality was common on the new Crossrail routeEuropean Continent, but barely talked about in the largest building project currently under construction in Europe offering high speed links across LondonUK, have changed over so the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the centuriesscientific understanding of homosexuality, with destruction and renewal being a constantly recurring process in beginning the city's history. It is a fascinatingstruggle for recognition and equality, compellingly readable exploration through leading to the historical highways and byways milestone legalisation of the metropolissame-sex relationships in 1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587793</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1910593508|title=Apollo|author=Jonathan TriggMatt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins|rating=5|genre=History|summary=This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to the Moon landings and the passion for the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins. This is a story we know well and because of this, the authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the blanks. These shortcuts are the only downside to the book. If you've ever read a comic book adaptation of a film you will be familiar with the slight feeling that there are scenes missing and that dialogue has been trimmed. This is a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and still felt too short.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786331047|title=Voices of The Race to Save the Flemish Waffen-SSRomanovs: The Final Testament Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family|author=Helen Rappaport|rating=5|genre=History|summary=The basic facts about the deaths of Nicholas and Alexandra, some of which were deliberately obscured at the Oostfronterstime for various reasons, have long since been established. For the last few months of their lives in Russia the former Tsar and Tsarina, their children and few remaining servants were held in increasingly squalid, humiliating captivity. To prevent them from being rescued, in July 1918 the revolutionary regime had them all shot and bayoneted to death in circumstances which, once the news was confirmed beyond all doubt, horrified their relatives in Europe.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Woolf_Great|title=The Great Horizon: 50 Tales of Exploration|author=Jo Woolf
|rating=3.5
|genre=History
|summary=In Jo Woolf has compiled a brilliant set of fifty short insights into the week I write this, Trump has come under fire for not condemning fascistic behaviour in America from lives and achievements of some Neo-Nazisamazingly brave people. It strikes me that Their fearless journeys have helped us unlock many of the ''Neo-'' is a pointless dignification – yesmysteries of the wildest parts of our world, they cannot be deemed to follow Hitler precisely as he's long dead and burnt, so they're kind also given us an understanding of new, but common sense obliges me what it is like to just call them Nazis. Their excuse is they feel America has been invaded by be faced with the enemy – but what if you were indeed under occupation? Could you see yourself working for most terrible conditions and still have the forces that had indeed invaded you? The author begins by pointing determination and grit to carry on. This book could be viewed as a taster which encourages us to seek out that several countries were invaded by the Nazis, and they have different feelings read more about some of the people who worked against the commonly-held nationalistic aimmost iconic explorers. France hates her collaborators, but just north of the border things Their stories are different – pretty incredible and the picture is a lot more muddy as a resultWoolf does them justice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445666367</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=Mourby_Rooms
|title=Rooms with a View: The Secret Life of Great Hotels
|author=Adrian Mourby
|rating=4
|genre=History
|summary=Adrian Mourby has given us a flying visit to each of fifty grand hotels, from fourteen regions of the world, with the hotels in each section being arranged chronologically rather than by region, which helps to give something of an overall picture. So what makes a hotel 'grand'? The first hotel to call itself 'grand' was in Covent Garden in 1774 and it ushered in the beginning of a period when a hotel would be a lifestyle choice rather than a refuge for those without friends and family conveniently nearby. The hotels we visit all began life in different circumstances and each faced a different set of challenges. We begin in the Americas, move to the United Kingdom, circumnavigate Europe, briefly visit Russia and Turkey then northern Africa, India and Asia. Australia, it seems, does not go for the grand.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=Hailstone_Berlin
|title=Berlin in the Cold War: 1959 to 1966
|author=Allan Hailstone
|rating=4
|genre=History
|summary=''Berlin in the Cold War: 1959-1966'' contains almost 200 photographs taken by author/photographer Allan Hailstone in his visits to the city during this period. The images provide an insight into the changing nature of the divide between East and West Berlin and a glimpse into life in the city during the Cold War.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=Moorehead_Russian
|title=The Russian Revolution
|author=Alan Moorehead
|rating=The author was writing from a slightly different stance from most other historians. Only a decade after the end of the Second World War, he was basing his account on the premise that the Nazis' rise to power in Germany was connected with the heritage that Lenin had left behind, and that without Stalin's assurances of support Hitler would never have dared to plunge the world into such a devastating global conflict. It was his belief that America's post-war commitments in Europe and the Far East, and other post-1945 developments, could also be traced back to the events of 1917. Much of his material came from German archives which were saved from destruction when the Third Reich was on the brink of collapse. These documents that the German government would have kept private had they won the war provided full detail on the attempts of their forebears to pave the way for chaos and revolution in their Asiatic neighbour.
|genre=History
|summary=
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|isbn=Anderson_Fantasyland
|title=Fantasyland
|author=Kurt Andersen
|rating=4
|genre=History
|summary=Fantasyland covers the history of America from 1517 to 2017 in awesome detail. Covering five centuries of tempestuous history, Andersen paints the conjuring of America in vivid relief. Discussing everything from pilgrims to politicians, the exhilarating gold rush to alternative facts, seminal episodes are explored in forensic detail with razor-sharp wit.
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|isbn=Way_Tea
|title=Tea Gardens (Britain's Heritage Series)
|author=Twigs Way
|rating=4
|genre=History
|summary=Tea Gardens really began in London in the late 18th century: a trip to Kings Cross or St Pancras was effectively a trip to the country in those days. Men had their coffee houses, but they were not places where women could or would be seen. Tea was introduced to England in the 17th century but it was not until 1784 that the high duty was reduced from 119% to 12½% and tea became the drink of choice for the nation. Until then the working classes had been fuelled largely by cheap gin. Only, where would this beverage be drunk? One answer was the pleasure gardens where the fashionable went to see and be seen: by the mid-1600s tea was also being served in places such as Ranelagh Gardens.
 
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