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[[Category:New Reviews|History]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{Frontpage|isbn=1785633457|title=Charging Around: Exploring 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. In fact, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and his wife, Joan, shouldn't it?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09BLBP3P8|title=Neville Chamberlain's War: How 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''. We remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, war breaking out, and Churchill coming in to save the day. Very 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=3756228711|title=CDC: The happy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Hans Bodmer|rating=4|genre=History|summary=''The history of the development of IT could fill books of several hundred pages.''
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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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|title=Clara Colby: The International Suffragist
|author=John Holliday
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|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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|title=This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History
|author=Esther Rutter
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|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 ''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a journey to uncover the author's lost ancestor's life and death. Cercas is searching for the meaning behind his great uncle's death in the Spanish friary cookCivil War. Manuel Mena, Juan AltamirasCercas' great uncle, published is the figure who looms large over the first edition book. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. The question at the centre of this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to be a hero whilst having fought for the wrong side. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008294011|title=How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary=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 ''New Art of Cookery, Drawn From Discuss the School of Economic Experiencefactors which led to...''. It contained more than two hundred recipes for meat, poultry, game, salted and fresh fish, vegetables and desserts. The style I agreed that she was informal, chatty and humorous on occasions right and wasn't certain whether it was aimed, not at those who could afford to cook on a grand scale, but at those with more modest budgets, who sometimes needed good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was leading to cook for large numbers. Whilst the ingredients were - for the most part - modestly priced there is a stress on the careful combination of flavours and aromasI think now that I do know. Spices We are used conservatively and the bluntness of some Moorish cooking is eschewed in favour danger of something much more subtle losing democracy and we see influences from Altamiraswhilst it's a flawed system I can' own region, Aragont think of a better one, particularly as the Iberian court and the New World'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1442279419</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Susan Duxbury-Neumann1788037812|title= What Have The Fraternity of the Germans Ever Done Estranged: The Fight for Us?: A History of the German Population of Great BritainHomosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson|rating= 45|genre= History|summary= The adapted Monty Pythonesque rhetorical question takes some Originally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time to provide a full answer, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the 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 this slim studying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, but useful volume does barely talked about in the UK, so very wellthe publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the scientific understanding of homosexuality, and beginning the struggle for recognition and equality, leading to the milestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445664860</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Gillian Tindall1910593508|title= The Tunnel Through Time: A New Route for an Old London JourneyApollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary=This book traces the course of historical journeys across incredible graphic novel is a love letter to the city in time Moon landings and space, examining how the areas above passion for the new Crossrail routesubject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, the largest building project currently under construction in Europe offering high speed links across LondonChris Baker and Mike Collins. This is a story we know well and because of this, have changed over the centuries, with destruction and renewal being authors take a constantly recurring process few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the cityblanks. These shortcuts are the only downside to the book. If you's historyve 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. It This is a fascinating, compellingly readable exploration through the historical highways graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and byways of the metropolisstill felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587793</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Trigg1786331047|title=Voices of The Race to Save the Flemish Waffen-SSRomanovs: The Final Testament of Truth Behind the OostfrontersSecret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family|author=Helen Rappaport|rating=3.5
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|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>
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