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[[Category:New Reviews|History]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- Woolf -->{{Frontpage|isbn=1785633457*[[image|title=Charging Around:Woolf_GreatExploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating=5|genre=Travel|summary=Clive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of exploring the edges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageous.jpgIn fact, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and his wife, Joan, shouldn't it?}}{{Frontpage|leftisbn=B09BLBP3P8|linktitle=httpsNeville Chamberlain's War://wwwHow Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940|author=Frederic Seager|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary=Received wisdom and simplified narrative often lead to misconceptions about history. One such is the scrubbing from the popular imagination of the early days of World War II from 1939-40, known as the ''Phoney War''.amazonWe remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, war breaking out, and Churchill coming in to save the day.coVery little time is spent on this period in cultural reflections and yet, as Frederic Seager argues in this book, it was of vital significance in how the war played out.uk/gp/product/1910985880?ie}}{{Frontpage|isbn=UTF8&tag3756228711|title=thebookbag-21&linkCodeCDC: The happy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=as2&campHans Bodmer|rating=1634&creative4|genre=6738&creativeASINHistory|summary=1910985880]]''The history of the development of IT could fill books of several hundred pages.''

===[[The Great Horizon: 50 Tales of Exploration by Jo Woolf]]=== [[image:3Author Hans Bodmer is quite right about that.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]], [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] Jo Woolf He has compiled a brilliant set of fifty short insights into the lives and achievements of some amazingly brave people. Their fearless journeys have helped chosen to tell us unlock many of about the mysteries short, but explosive, history of the wildest parts of our worldControl Data Company, CDC, 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 onfor whom he worked. This book could be viewed as It's a fascinating tale, told in a taster which encourages us to seek out and read more about some mixture of the most iconic explorers. Their stories are pretty incredible technological summary and Woolf does them justicewry anecdote. [[The Great Horizon: 50 Tales of Exploration by Jo Woolf|Full Review]]<br>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Allan HailstoneJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Berlin in the Cold War: 1959 to 1966Fritz and Kurt

|summary=Archaeology cannot be child's play, when you'Berlin re scraping in the Cold War: 1959-1966'' contains almost 200 photographs taken by dirt looking to find what you can find, often knowing there should be something there but not always confident what. Archaeology must be a fair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thing. This book is a case of the latter, as our author / photographer Allan Hailstone in his visits promises to locate the city during this periodtopic of the titular search. The images provide an insight into And he really hasn't made it easy for himself – the changing nature of search area is a wide one, the divide between East target might not exist any more – oh, and West Berlin it's underwater, when he cannot dive. Latching on to a particular D-Day veteran through helping the heroic old man's visit back to France, our author has promised to find the landing craft that delivered him to Normandy, and that he was lucky to survive when it sank from beneath him. The secondary aim is to erect a glimpse into life in memorial to everyone else aboard, the city during the Cold Warvast majority of whom perished.Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445672901</amazonuk>1472146182

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Alan MooreheadB09F4CTKJR|title= The Russian RevolutionFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer|rating= 4.5|genre= HistoryHistorical Fiction|summary= First published in 1958, MoorheadIt's account is regarded as one of the most succinct accounts later stages of its subject, World War I and now reprinted to mark the centenary of United States has just entered the revolutionconflict.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445667320</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Adrian Mourby|title=Rooms with Petrol Petronus is a View: The Secret Life of Great Hotels|rating=4|genre=Travel|summary=Adrian Mourby young American who has given us a flying visit to each of fifty grand hotels, from fourteen regions of signed up and joined the world, with 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the hotels first US Aero Squadron to be trained in each section being arranged chronologically rather than by regionCanada, which helps the first to give something of an overall picture. So what makes a hotel 'grand'? The first hotel be attached to call itself 'grand' was in covent Garden in 1774 the RAF and it ushered in the beginning of a period when a hotel would first to 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 sent into the Americas, move skies to fight the United Kingdom, circumnavigate Europe, briefly visit Russia and Turkey then northern Africa, India and AsiaGermans in active combat. AustraliaBut before that can happen, it seems, does not go for Petrol has to master flying the grandnotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785782754</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Philip Matyszak0578761718|title=24 Hours in Ancient RomeThe Inspiring History of a Special Relationship|author=Nancy Carver

|summary= I've never been that interested The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the City of London from at least 1181, when it was first mentioned in Ancient Romerecords. Blame my teachersSadly, or our oh-so-dry visits to Roman villas with their earnest interpretation panels, or perhaps I just daydreamed through all the original church was destroyed in the interesting bits… Somehow I entered adulthood with Great Fire of London in 1666. It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the impression that all Romans were bloodthirsty fire and hedonistic heathens with little to recommend themthen survived for centuries until World War II, when it was again ruined by bombs during the Blitz. But that wasn't the end of its story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, the stones from the church'Mea culpa''s walls were transported to Fulton, you might sayMissouri. So when my eye fell upon Philip Matyszak's ''24 Hours There, in Ancient Rome'', and its claim to introduce readers to the real Ancient Rome by examining the lives grounds of ordinary peopleWestminster College, I decided it the church was high time rebuilt and today serves as a memorial to update my education. And the lovely artwork on the front cover made this book all the more appealingWinston Churchill.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782438564</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sharon Bennett Connolly1784385166|title= Heroines The Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History of the Medieval WorldNazi Germany|author=Roger Moorhouse|rating= 5|genre= History|summary= Many women in medieval times left their mark on history, What is the first image that comes to mind when you think of the Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The gate to a concentration camp? None of these are comfortable images but as a rule they have been neglected by biographers are emblematic of the Third Reich's fascist regime in all its iniquity. But some objects and historians as there is too little surviving information for them to have even brief biographies images from that time may be less familiar to themselvesyou. Ms Connolly In this short volume, Roger Moorhouse has adopted an enterprising solution attempted to illustrate the problem by writing a general account on a broadly thematic basisperiod of the Third Reich through one hundred of its material artefacts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445662647</amazonuk> 

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kurt AndersenLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title= FantasylandTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes|rating= 4.5|genre= History Graphic Novels|summary= Fantasyland covers I never really followed the history events of America from 1517 to 2017 Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in awesome detailthe second half of their teens has other priorities, you know. Covering five centuries I certainly didn't know of tempestuous history, Andersen paints the conjuring weeks of America in vivid relief. Discussing everything protests and hunger strikes from pilgrims to politiciansthe students before the massacre and the birth of the Tank Man image, I didn't know how the exhilarating gold rush to alternative factsarea had long been a venue for political protest, seminal episodes are explored and I didn't know more than a spit about the people involved on either side. This book is practically flawless in forensic detail with razor sharp witgiving a general browser's context for the whole season of protests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785038656</amazonuk>1684056993

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Twigs Way0648684806|title=Tea Gardens (Britain's Heritage Series)Clara Colby: The International Suffragist|author=John Holliday

|genre=LifestyleBiography|summary=Tea Gardens really began in London in The path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the USA. At the late 18th century: a trip to Kings Cross or St Pancras time she was effectively a trip just three-years-old but because of some childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to the country in those dayssail with her parents and three brothers. Men had their coffee housesInstead, she remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and saw that she received a good education, but they were not places where women could or would be seenboth in and out of school. Tea She was introduced to England the only child in the 17th century but it household and her childhood was not until 1784 that glorious. By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the mid-west of the high duty United States and life was hard, as Clara was reduced from 119% to 12½% find out when she and tea became the drink of choice for her grandparents eventually went to join the nationfamily. Until then the working classes Clara would only know her mother for a few months: she was married for fifteen years, had been fuelled largely by cheap ginten pregnancies, seven surviving children and died in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. OnlyAs the eldest girl, where a heavy burden would this beverage be drunk? fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1783784350|title=This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter|rating=5|genre=History|summary=It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, writing to people she'd never met and preparing spreadsheets. The job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. One answer January was going to be a time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the pleasure gardens where length and breadth of the fashionable went British Isles with occasional forays abroad, discovering and telling the story of wool's history and how it had made and changed the landscape. She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - '' a free-range child on the farm'' - and learned to see spin, knit and weave from her mother and be seen: by the mid 1600s tea her mother's friend. This was also being served in places such as Ranelagh Gardensher blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445670011</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Nathen Amin1789017977|title=The House of BeaufortRonnie and Hilda's Romance: The Bastard Line that Captured the CrownTowards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams|rating= 4|genre= History|summary= The family name Ronnie Williams was the son of Beaufort played 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 1863, but he was already many years older than Ethel and he might well have shaved a few years off his age. For a major part while the family was quite well-to-do but disaster struck in British history during the fourteenth 1929 Depression and five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a very different lifestyle. One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to be well-turned-out and fifteenth centuriesthis would stay with him throughout his life. It therefore seems remarkable that little has been written about them until He joined the appearance of this bookarmy at eighteen in 1942.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445647648</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rory Stewart1980891117|title= The MarchesG Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the life of George Engleheart|author=John Webley|rating= 4.5|genre= TravelArt|summary= The Observer quote on the front George Engleheart was one of the paperback edition leading portrait miniaturists of Stewart's latest book observes ''This is travel writing at its finest.'' PerhapsGeorgian London, but to call it travel writing is to totally under-sell it. This is erudition at its finest. Stewart has with a career lasting from the background 1770s to do this: he had an international upbringing and followed his father in both the Army and Regency era. He was also one of the Foreign Officemost prolific, and then painting nearly 5,000 miniatures altogether (to his father's, bemusement, shall we sayover twenty of them being of King George III) became an MP. OhThroughout most of that time he carefully recorded the names of each of his clients, and he walked 6,000 miles across Afghanistan in 2002subsequently transcribed them into what is referred to as his fee book. A walk along the Scottish borders should be a doddle by comparison.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581892</amazonuk>

{{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

|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>

{{Frontpage<!-- Parker -->*[[image:Parker_50.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1784937908?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1784937908]] ===[[50 Things You Should Know About the Vikings by Philip Parker]]==isbn=1908745819 [[image:4.5star.jpg|linktitle=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 the first thing that proved to the Orkney residents that they had Viking blood in their veins – they had been insisting it was that of the Irish. 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 to a lot 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 the Vikings by Philip Parker|Full Review]]<br> {{newreviewSurfacing|author=Emma Kay|title=Vintage KitchenaliaKathleen Jamie|rating=3.5

|summary=Over the half century and more Sometimes when people suggest that Iyou read a certain book, they tell you ''ve been preparing meals this one has your name on a regular basis Iit''ve seen food preparation move from being just something you did. 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 rare experience. People who are sensitive to an obsession akin to hearing a religionbook calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, I was told why. My first kitchen had nothing in The blurb speaks of the way of luxury - it was there to make meals as nutritiously and economically as possible: my current kitchen is not author considering ''quitean older, less tethered sense of herself.'' state of the art, but it Older. Less tethered. That's equipped to not a high standard and is a pleasure to work inbad description of where I am. But what Add to that my love of all the equipment which went beforenatural world, which paved of those aspects of the poetic 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 what we have now? me eventually. Emma Kay is going I am pleased to give you a quick trip through the historyhave it fall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445657511</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martyn Beardsley0857058320|title= Waterloo Voices 1815: The Battle at First Hand|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= The battle of Waterloo, fought on a midsummer day on a muddy field in Belgium, brought an end to two decades of war in Europe. As one of the pivotal events of the nineteenth century, it has inevitably been Lord Of All the focus of many accounts over the last two hundred years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660164</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDead|author=Sarah Rutherford|title=Landscape GardensJavier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)

|genre=ArtHistory|summary=My first experience of a ''bigLord Of All the Dead'' garden was Versailles as is a teenager journey to uncover the author's lost ancestor's life and whilst I was impresseddeath. Cercas is searching for the meaning behind his great uncle's death in the Spanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, I didnCercas't really like it. I felt stifled and strangely underwhelmed by great uncle, is the figure who looms large over the flatness of it allbook. As luck would have it I then saw Hampton Court and it was official: I was off big gardensHe died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's forces. It would be many years before I revised my opinionCercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. On a trip to Harewood House The question at the centre of this book is whether it was too hot a day is possible for his great uncle to be corralled into the house, so I wandered the gardens and found they were delightful. I felt uplifted. Then a cricket match at Stowe gave me hero whilst having fought for the opportunity to walk the grounds for over an hourwrong side. 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445669935</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stuart Maconie0008294011|title= Long Road From JarrowHow to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran|rating= 4.5|genre= Travel History|summary= A little while ago a friend asked me if I cancelled my thought that we were living through what in years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the question ''Country WalkingDiscuss the factors which led to...'' I agreed that she was right and wasn' magazine subscription about t certain whether it was a year ago and the only good or bad thing I miss is Stuart Maconiethat we didn's column. His down-to-earth approach and sharp wit belie an equally sharp intellect and a soul more sensitive than he might be willing to admit. Lett know what all 's be honest, though, I picked this one up because of someone else's review, in which I spotted names like Ferryhill and Newton Aycliffe. Places I grew up inwas leading to. Like Maconie I have no connection (think now that I do know . We are in danger of) to the Jarrow Crusade but when he talks about losing democracy and whilst it being 's a flawed system I can't think of a whole matrix of events reducible to better one word like Aberfan, Hillsborough, or Orgreaveparticularly as the 'benevolent dictator'is as rare as hen' then somehow it does become part of my history too. Tangentially, at leasts teeth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785030531</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vicky Hayward1788037812|title=Juan Altamiras' New Art The Fraternity of Cookerythe Estranged: A Spanish Friar's Kitchen NotebookThe Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson|rating=45|genre=CookeryHistory|summary=In 1745 Originally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a Spanish friary cookcrime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, Juan Altamirasrestrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, published the first edition of his ''New Art of Cookery, Drawn From three books on the School nature of Economic Experience''homosexuality appeared. It contained more than They were written by two hundred recipes for meat, poultry, game, salted homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and fresh fishJohn Addington Symonds, vegetables and dessertsas well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. The style was informal, chatty Exploring the margins of society and humorous on occasions and it studying homosexuality was aimed, not at those who could afford to cook common on a grand scalethe European Continent, but at those with more modest budgetsbarely talked about in the UK, who sometimes needed to cook for large numbers. Whilst so the ingredients publications of these men were - for hugely significant – contributing to the most part - modestly priced there is a stress on the careful combination scientific understanding of flavours homosexuality, and aromas. Spices are used conservatively beginning the struggle for recognition and equality, leading to the bluntness milestone legalisation of some Moorish cooking is eschewed same-sex relationships in favour of something much more subtle and we see influences from Altamiras' own region, Aragon, the Iberian court and the New World1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1442279419</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Susan Duxbury-Neumann1910593508|title= What Have the Germans Ever Done for Us?: A History of the German Population of Great BritainApollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins|rating= 45|genre= History|summary= The adapted Monty Pythonesque rhetorical question takes some time This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to provide the Moon landings and the passion for the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins. This is a full answerstory 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 this slim but useful volume does so very wellthat dialogue has been trimmed. This is a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and still felt too short. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445664860</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Gillian Tindall1786331047|title= The Tunnel Through TimeRace to Save the Romanovs: A New Route for an Old London Journey|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary=This book traces the course of historical journeys across the city in time and space, examining how the areas above the new Crossrail route, the largest building project currently under construction in Europe offering high speed links across London, have changed over The Truth Behind the centuries, with destruction and renewal being a constantly recurring process in the citySecret Plans to Rescue Russia's history. It is a fascinating, compellingly readable exploration through the historical highways and byways of the metropolis.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587793</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewImperial Family|author=Jonathan Trigg|title=Voices of the Flemish Waffen-SS: The Final Testament of the OostfrontersHelen Rappaport|rating=3.5

|summary=In The basic facts about the week I write thisdeaths of Nicholas and Alexandra, Trump has come under fire for not condemning fascistic behaviour in America from some Neo-Nazis. It strikes me that of which were deliberately obscured at the ''Neo-'' is a pointless dignification – yestime for various reasons, they cannot be deemed to follow Hitler precisely as he's have long dead and burnt, so they're kind of new, but common sense obliges me to just call them Nazissince been established. Their excuse is they feel America has been invaded by For the enemy – but what if you were indeed under occupation? Could you see yourself working for last few months of their lives in Russia the forces that had indeed invaded you? The author begins by pointing out that several countries were invaded by the Nazisformer Tsar and Tsarina, their children and they have different feelings about the people who worked against the commonly-few remaining servants were held nationalistic aimin increasingly squalid, humiliating captivity. France hates her collaboratorsTo prevent them from being rescued, but just north of in July 1918 the border things are different – revolutionary regime had them all shot and bayoneted to death in circumstances which, once the picture is a lot more muddy as a resultnews was confirmed beyond all doubt, horrified their relatives in Europe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445666367</amazonuk>