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[[Category:New Reviews|History]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1785633457|title=Charging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Sarah RutherfordClive 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=Landscape GardensNeville 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

|genre=ArtHistory|summary=My first experience of a ''big'' garden was Versailles as a teenager and whilst I was impressed, I didn't really like it. I felt stifled and strangely underwhelmed by The history of the flatness development 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 house, so I wandered the gardens 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 IT could fill books of Lancelot 'Capability' Brownseveral hundred pages. Sarah Rutherford's ''Landscape Gardens'' was an opportunity to put him in context.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445669935</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author= Stuart Maconie|title= Long Road From Jarrow|rating= 5|genre= Travel |summary= I cancelled my ''Country Walking'' magazine subscription Author Hans Bodmer is quite right about a year ago and the only thing I miss is Stuart Maconie's columnthat. His down-He has chosen to-earth approach and sharp wit belie an equally sharp intellect and a soul more sensitive than he might be willing to admit. Let's be honesttell us about the short, thoughbut explosive, I picked this one up because history of someone elsethe Control Data Company, CDC, for whom he worked. It's reviewa fascinating tale, told 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) to the Jarrow Crusade but when he talks about it being ''a whole matrix mixture of events reducible to one word like Aberfan, Hillsborough, or Orgreave'' then somehow it does become part of my history too. Tangentially, at leasttechnological summary and wry anecdote.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785030531</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Vicky HaywardJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Juan Altamiras' New Art of Cookery: A Spanish Friar's Kitchen NotebookFritz and Kurt

|genre=CookeryConfident Readers|summary=In 1745 a Spanish friary cookWe start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, Juan Altamirasand their muckers, published doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the first edition of his ''New Art of Cookeryempty market place, Drawn From helping the School of Economic Experience''. It contained more than two hundred recipes for meatneighbours, poultry, game, salted being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and fresh fish, vegetables and dessertsat a vocational school. The style was informal, chatty and humorous on occasions and it was aimed, not at those who could afford Kurt has to cook make sure the lamps are turned on a grand scale, but at those with more modest budgets, who sometimes needed to cook their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for large numbersusing anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. Whilst But this is the ingredients were - for time just before the most part - modestly priced there Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a stress on national vote to keep the careful combination of flavours and aromasNazis out, invite them in with open arms. Spices are used conservatively and ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the bluntness round-ups of some Moorish cooking is eschewed Jews. These in favour their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of something much more subtle an evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz and we see influences from Altamiras' own regionhis father are, Aragonunknown initially to each other, packed off on the Iberian court same train to Buchenwald and the New Worldstone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1442279419</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Susan Duxbury-NeumannJohn Henry Phillips|title= What Have the Germans Ever Done for Us?: A History of the German Population of Great BritainThe Search|rating= 45|genre= History|summary= The adapted Monty Pythonesque rhetorical question takes Archaeology cannot be child's play, when you're scraping in the 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 time specific thing. This book is a case of the latter, as our author promises to locate the topic of the titular search. And he really hasn't made it easy for himself – the search area is a wide one, the target might not exist any more – oh, and it's underwater, when he cannot dive. Latching on to provide a full answerparticular 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 this slim but useful volume does so very wellthat he was lucky to survive when it sank from beneath him. The secondary aim is to erect a memorial to everyone else aboard, the vast majority of whom perished. Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445664860</amazonuk>1472146182

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Gillian TindallB09F4CTKJR|title= The Tunnel Through Time: A New Route Flights for an Old London JourneyFreedom|author= Steven Burgauer|rating= 4.5|genre= HistoryHistorical Fiction|summary=This book traces It's the course later stages of historical journeys across World War I and the city in time United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up and space, examining how joined the areas above 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the new Crossrail routefirst US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, the largest building project currently under construction in Europe offering high speed links across London, have changed over first to be attached to the centuries, with destruction RAF and renewal being a constantly recurring process the first to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in the city's historyactive combat. It is a fascinatingBut before that can happen, compellingly readable exploration through Petrol has to master flying the historical highways and byways of the metropolisnotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587793</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Trigg0578761718|title=Voices of the Flemish Waffen-SS: The Final Testament Inspiring History of the Oostfrontersa Special Relationship|author=Nancy Carver|rating=34.5

|summary=In The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the week I write thisCity of London from at least 1181, Trump has come under fire for not condemning fascistic behaviour when it was first mentioned in America from some Neo-Nazisrecords. Sadly, It strikes me that the ''Neo-'' is a pointless dignification – yes, they cannot be deemed to follow Hitler precisely as he's long dead and burnt, so they're kind original church was destroyed in the Great Fire of new, but common sense obliges me to just call them NazisLondon in 1666. Their excuse is they feel America has been invaded It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the enemy – but what if you were indeed under occupation? Could you see yourself working fire and then survived for centuries until World War II, when it was again ruined by bombs during the forces Blitz. But that had indeed invaded you? The author begins by pointing out that several countries were invaded by wasn't the Nazisend of its story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, and they have different feelings about the people who worked against stones from the commonly-held nationalistic aimchurch's walls were transported to Fulton, Missouri. France hates her collaboratorsThere, but just north in the grounds of Westminster College, the border things are different – church was rebuilt and the picture is a lot more muddy today serves as a resultmemorial to Winston Churchill.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445666367</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Gerard Cheshire|title= A History of Victorian Postage|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary=Although we think of postage and the sending of letters as a specifically Victorian innovation, its roots go far deeper than that. This book, which surveys a much broader time frame than the title might suggest, presents us with an admirably concise picture of its development up to its full fruition in the mid-nineteenth century.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445664372</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|authorisbn=S Morris and N Grueninger1784385166|title=In the Footsteps of the Six Wives of Henry VIII: The visitor's companion to the palaces, castles & houses associated with Henry VIII's iconic queens|rating= 5|genre= History|summary= It was inevitable that each of the six wives of Henry VIII would have left their mark in some way on the places they lived and visited. This book straddles several categories; history, gazetteer or guide book, and collection of potted biographies. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>144567114X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Terry Breverton|title= Owen Tudor: Founding Father of the Tudor Dynasty|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary= Owen Tudor was one of those shadowy yet very important characters Third Reich in medieval history. While we may know little about him, or at least did not until this biography appeared, his historical importance can hardly be overestimated. Without him, there would have been no Tudor dynasty.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445654180</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Helen Doe|title= The First Atlantic Liner100 Objects: Brunel's Great Western Steamship|rating= 4.5|genre= A Material History|summary= Isambard Kingdom Brunel's enduring seafaring monuments were the Great Britain and Great Eastern. Their forerunner the Great Western, which paved the way and yet is now largely forgotten, at last merits a full account in this book. Ms Doe admits at the front that she is not an engineer, and as a maritime historian her interests are more social and economic than technical. Her aim is to tell the story of the ship, that of the people who travelled on her as crew or passengers, and her influence on subsequent maritime history after an existence of barely two decades.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445667207</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewNazi Germany|author=Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (translators)|title=The Unwomanly Face of WarRoger Moorhouse

|summary=''War'', says Svetlana Alexievich, ''What is the first image that comes to mind when you think of all murder, and then hard work. And then simply ordinary life: singing, falling in love, putting your hair in curlers…''. This extraordinary book is the Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The gate to a collection concentration camp? None of first-hand accounts by Russian fighting women these are comfortable images but they are emblematic of the Third Reich's fascist regime in the Second World War. A million women joined Russian military forces as soldiers of all ranks, medics, pilots, drivers, snipers, cryptographers. Most were very young, little more than girls of 18 or 19its iniquity. They were passionate about defending their homeland and often extremely keen to join up, returning again But some objects and again to recruitment offices until someone could images from that time may be persuaded less familiar to take themyou. Their ambition was to help their brothers, fathersIn this short volume, husbands Roger Moorhouse has attempted to fight illustrate the terrible invader. They were trained and sent to period of the front, where they were greeted at first with disappointment and disgust by fighting men, who had hoped for reinforcements Third Reich through one hundred of able-bodied men. The women had to prove themselvesits material artefacts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141983523</amazonuk> 

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Andrew LaceyLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title= The English Civil War in 100 FactsTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes|rating= 4.5|genre= HistoryGraphic Novels|summary= The 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'100 Factst know how the area had long been a venue for political protest, and I didn' series is now sufficiently well-established as t know more than a guarantee of useful introductory historiesspit about the people involved on either side. This latest addition, recounting book is practically flawless in giving a general browser's context for the struggle between King and Parliament, is no exceptionwhole season of protests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445649950</amazonuk>1684056993

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lauren Elkin0648684806|title=FlaneuseClara Colby: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and LondonThe International Suffragist|author=John Holliday

|genre=History Biography|summary=Lauren Elkin is down on suburbs: they're places where you can't or shouldn't be seen walking; places where, in fiction, women who transgress boundaries are punished (thinking The path of everything from ''Madame Bovary'Clara Dorothy Bewick' s life was probably determined when her family emigrated to ''Revolutionary Road'')the USA. When At the time she imagines to herself what the female version was just three-years-old but because of that well-known historical figuresome childhood ailment, the carefree ''flâneur'she wasn't allowed to sail with her parents and three brothers. Instead, might beshe remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and saw that she thinks about women who freely wandered received a good education, both in and out of school. She was the only child in the world's great cities without having household and her childhood was glorious. By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the more insalubrious connotation mid-west of the word 'streetwalker' applied United States and life was hard, as Clara was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to themjoin 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593378</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jeffrey James1783784350|title= IrelandThis Golden Fleece: The Struggle for Power: From the Dark Ages to the JacobitesA Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter|rating= 4.5|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 'Irish troubles' go back over many centuriesjob frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. When I January was going to be a time for making changes and doubtless many others she decided that she would travel the length and breadth of my generation studied History at school, the Emerald Isle barely intruded on our consciousnessBritish Isles with occasional forays abroad, apart from brief references to discovering and telling the Battle story of the Boyne wool's history and how it had made and maybe changed the Easter Risinglandscape. This book therefore does us, and the country, She'd grown up on a service sheep farm in helping to fill Suffolk - '' a very large gap.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445662469</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Michael Hicks|title= The Family of Richard III|rating= 4|genre= History|summary= New titles about free-range child on the Yorkist dynastyfarm'' - and learned to spin, which ruled England for little more than two decades, continue to proliferateknit and weave from her mother and her mother's friend. Michael Hicks, acknowledged as one of the great – although never sympathetic – experts on Richard III, has contributed an interesting chronicle to the shelves This was in her blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660156</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clive Pearson1789017977|title=The Second Ronnie and Hilda's Romance: Towards a New Life after World War in 100 FactsII|author=Wendy Williams

|summary=To begin at Ronnie Williams was the beginning, that is one dissembling titleson of Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wall. 100 Facts? There are bounties galore here that that low figure belies. There are a lot more'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 I would attest that there will be some you aren't completely au fait withhe might well have shaved a few years off his age. If For a while the Phoney War and family was quite well-to-do but disaster struck in the Battle of the Plate are bread 1929 Depression and butter five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a very different lifestyle. One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to you, how about Matapan? You could be well be used to reading essays about Goebbels or Speer, but Field-Marshal von Manstein? That's not to say turned-out and this is utterly exhaustive or complex, nor confined to the trivialwould stay with him throughout his life. Its unexpected format actually makes it one of He joined the better primers for the entire WWII, before, during and afterarmy at eighteen in 1942.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445653532</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Ashdown-Hill1980891117|title= The Wars G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the life of the RosesGeorge Engleheart|author=John Webley|rating= 4.5|genre= HistoryArt|summary= During my schooldaysGeorge Engleheart was one of the leading portrait miniaturists of Georgian London, I always found with a career lasting from the 1770s to the Wars Regency era. He was also one of the Roses the most fascinating period prolific, painting nearly 5,000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of English historythem being of King George III). In those days we were taught Throughout most of that time he carefully recorded the battles began in 1455 and ended in 1485. Ashdown-Hill is one names of several modern historians whose study each of the subject extends these boundarieshis clients, and in this volume he starts with the reign of Richard II, ending late in the Elizabethan erasubsequently transcribed them into what is referred to as his fee book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660350</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Charles Drazin1789016304|title= Mapping the PastWar and Love: A Search for Five Brothers at the Edge family's testament of Empireanguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin|rating= 45|genre= History|summary=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 ''Mapping the PastThe Diary of Ann Frank'' is at once a personal quest into the authorbut then realised that her own family's family history, stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and an account of some of seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the interestingwar years, perhaps even amazing things the Royal Engineers have achieved over the past couple of centuries. Drazin is descended from but only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a generation of Engineers; five brothers country with liberal values who all served in were resistant to German occupation. Most people believed that the Army, mostly as surveyors mapping occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the far flung parts of Germans might reach the Empire. This was despite them being both Irish and Catholic. He uncovers their pastscity were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, that the many things they undertook and how Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in the way that it affected them in did, but initial protests melted away as the endorganisers became more circumspect. It's an atrocity on a story that's uplifting and extremely sad, as the First World War and the Easter Rising in 1916 seem to mark a true watershed for his familyvast scale but made up of tens of thousands of individual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099468271</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lyndal Roper1908745819|title= Martin Luther:Renegade and Prophet|rating= 5|genre= History|summary= Exactly five centuries ago in October 2017, Martin Luther nailed his ninety-five theses against the sale of indulgences to the door of the All Saints' Church in Wittenberg. The ensuing maelstrom ripped the Christian church asunder and changed the course of history. But how was a provincial professor in a cassock able to set the Reformation in motion, despite papal and imperial authority being ranged against him? In a biography which was ten years in the making, Lyndal Roper strips away mythology to illuminate the facts underneath (for starters, it is highly unlikely that Luther actually nailed the ninety-five theses to the door). She provides a thoughtful analysis of the forces which drove the evangelical preacher and convincingly explains his contradictions – why, after decades of monastic observance did he marry a nun and develop a love of German beer and wine? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784703443</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSurfacing|author= A T Williams|title= A Passing Fury: Searching for Justice at the End of World War II|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= In ''A Passing Fury,'' we follow an Orwell Prize-winning law academic's journey through Germany as he pursues the legal history of the trials waged by the British, and to some extent other Allied forces, against the newly-fallen Nazi regime. This is a deeply personal account, that reads very much like a travelogue in places. Williams is affected at every turn by harrowingly familiar accounts of life in the concentration camp system, such as those of the esteemed Italian writer and academic Primo Levi, who features throughout the book. More striking to the reader, however, are the often-forgotten atrocities Williams describes that failed to make a mark on our collective memory, such as the Cap Arcona tragedy, in which some 7,000 concentration camp internees were killed in a British air raid. Horrors such as these, which largely go unremembered, raise many questions, chief among them, was justice served? Williams pursues answers to this question throughout his investigation, which is just shy of 500 pages long.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593262</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= David Grann|title= Killers of the Flower Moon|rating= 5|genre= True Crime|summary=Killers of the Flower Moon tells the story of the Osage tribe, forced to settle in the rocky, uninhabitable wilds of Oklahoma in what would become Osage County. In an unexpected turn of fortune, prospectors struck oil, instantly catapulting the Osage into unimaginable wealth and fortune making them some of the richest people in the world. Then members of the tribe start to die, slowly at first of apparently natural causes then in increasingly violent ways. Investigation into the matter stalls and is beset by incompetence and a general lack of interest in the fate of the Osage until the FBI becomes involved and draws together a team of battle scarred, unorthodox agents led by former Texas Ranger Tom White. As pressure on White increases, from both the FBI and the increasingly angry Osage, the race to find the truth becomes increasingly difficult, with more twists and double crosses than any murder mystery.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857209027</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tom Feiling|title=The Island that DisappearedKathleen Jamie

|summary= Sometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book, they tell you ''this one has your name on it'The Island that Disappeared' tells the history of the. Mostly we take them at their word, largely now forgottenor not, island of Providence in but rarely do we ask them why they thought so unless it turns out that we didn't like the Caribbeanbook. It is That's a rare experience. People who are sensitive to hearing a fascinating and compelling account of what might have been but ultimately is the story of greedbook calling your name, ambition and human naturerarely get it wrong. In 1630 on board the Seaflowerthis case, a sister ship to I was told why. The blurb speaks of the Mayflowerauthor considering ''an older, less tethered sense of herself.'' Older. Less tethered. That's not a small group bad description of English puritans sailed to the island where I am. Add to establish a new colony. They were convinced in their belief that my love of the British Empire would rise in natural world, of those aspects of the Central America poetic and lyrical that are about style not in New England. The hopes that they carried was soon destroyed by failing cropsform, quarrels and rebellions and many turned to piracy and the plundering substance most of Spanish treasure shipsall, about connection. Within ten yearsOf course, the Spanish retaliated and invaded the island, wiping the colony outthis book had my name on it. Providence became a footnote of history until it It was resettled over a hundred years laterwritten for me. The book tells the island's story from It would have found its early puritan beginnings way to the present and through its telling me eventually. I am pleased to have it provides a fascinating microcosm of the world we live in todayfall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911184040</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Twigs Way0857058320|title=Allotments Lord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (Britain's Heritage Seriestranslator)

|genre=LifestyleHistory|summary=Allotments came about originally from ''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a journey to uncover the enclosure of land, primarily author's lost ancestor's life and death. Cercas is searching for sheep pasturethe meaning behind his great uncle's death in the Spanish Civil War. Fearing that the enclosures would leave peasants unable to feed themselvesManuel Mena, Elizabeth I issued an act requiring all new cottages to have four acres of groundCercas' great uncle, something which has been honoured more by history than by Elizabethis the figure who looms large over the book. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's contemporariesforces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. It was The question at the first in a long line centre of legislation with that aim in mind - which largely failed this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to achieve their aimsbe a hero whilst having fought for the wrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445665700</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Peter Rex0008294011|title= HaroldHow to Lose a Country: The King Who Fell at Hastings7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran|rating= 4.5

|summary= Harold is 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 unenviable position for being remembered as question ''Discuss the monarch who factors which led to...'' I agreed that she was defeated right and killed in the Norman conquest, and almost nothing else. He does not even merit wasn't certain whether it was a passing mention in the renowned 1930s spoof English history, good or bad thing that we didn'1066 and t know what all That', which no doubt has him this' was leading to. I think now that I do know. We are in their category danger of losing democracy and whilst it's a flawed system I can't think of a better one, particularly as the 'Unmemorable Kingsbenevolent dictator'. This book is thus inevitably a history rather than a biography of someone about whom undisputed facts are rather lackingas rare as hen's teeth. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>144565721X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Zuehlke and Claude St Aubin1788037812|title=The Loxleys and ConfederationFraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic NovelsHistory|summary=There is Originally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a huge hole crime remained in my history knowledge where North America is concernedplace for 82 years. SlowlyBut during this time, from an opening of sheer ignorancerestrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, having never studied it whatsoever at school, I've got a small grip three books on things like the Civil War, the foundations nature of the USA homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and a few other things. But that means nothing John Addington Symonds, as far well as this book is concerned, for that huge hole is Canadathe heterosexual Havelock Ellis. NoExploring the margins of society and studying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, I didn't have an inkling but barely talked about how it was trying to unify, just as the American Civil War was in full pelt just across the border. I didn't know what was there before CanadaUK, if you see what I mean. The story does have some things in common with that so the publications of their southern neighbours these men were hugely significant – European occupancy being slowly turned into a list contributing to the scientific understanding of states as we know them nowhomosexuality, slowly spreading into and beginning the heart of the continent with struggle for recognition and equality, leading to the help milestone legalisation of the railways etc; native 'Indians' being 'same-sex relationships in the way'; past trading agreements to either maintain or try to improve on; and so on – but of course it also had the British vs French issue1967. But did you know how an American President getting shot at the theatre had a bearing on the story? Or the Irish? Like I said, a huge hole…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992150892</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lynn Knight1910593508|title= The Button BoxApollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins|rating= 45|genre= History|summary= Buttons are This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to the Moon landings and the underdogs of passion for the clothing world: dismissed as functional elements subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins. This is a story we know well and because of clothingthis, falling into the same dustbin category with zips and shoe laces, they tend to be seen as necessary for keeping clothes on, rather than contributors to styleauthors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the blanks. But Lynn Knight is set These shortcuts are the only downside to prove that the opposite is truebook. We think nothing If you've ever read a comic book adaptation of lacing discussions about clothing and feminism a film you will be familiar with headscarves, bikinis, the slight feeling that there are scenes missing and underweight models – that dialogue has been trimmed. This is a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and buttons deserve a place on the pedestal of gender discussion, still felt tooshort.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593092</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sarah Fraser1786331047|title= The Prince Who Would Be KingRace to Save the Romanovs: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography |summary= Henry Stuart, eldest child of King James VI and I, was not Truth Behind the only eldest son of a monarch who did not live long enough Secret Plans to succeed to the throne. The list also included Arthur (son of Henry VII) and Albert Victor (Edward VII). Of the three, Henry undoubtedly showed the most promise.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007548087</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewRescue Russia's Imperial Family|author= Paul Flynn|title= Good As You: From Prejudice to Pride - 30 Years of Gay BritainHelen Rappaport|rating= 5|genre= History |summary=The last 30 years have seen a tidal wave basic facts about the deaths of change sweep the country with regards to how gay people are perceived Nicholas and accepted. In 1984Alexandra, the pulsing electronic beats some of ''Smalltown Boy'' became an anthem to unite Gay Men, but just a month later, a virus called HIV would be identified, spreading a climate of panic and fear across which were deliberately obscured at the nationtime for various reasons, and marginalising a community who were already ostracised. 30 years later though, the have long road to gay equality would reach a climax with the legalistion of gay marriagesince been established. Journalist Paul Flynn charts this remarkable journey via For the cultural milestones that affected this change - with interviews with such protagonists as Kylie, Russell T Davies, Will Young, Holly Johnson and Lord Chris Smith. This is the story last few months of Britain's brothers, sons, cousins, fathers and husbands. Of public outrage and personal loss, their lives in Russia the (not always legal) highs former Tsar and desperate lowsTsarina, their children and the final collective victory as Gay Men few remaining servants were finally recognised to be as Good As You. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785032925</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Miles Russell|title= Arthur and the Kings of Britain: The Historical Truth Behind the Myths|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= As the author of the Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain), written held in 1136increasingly squalid, Geoffrey of Monmouth is commonly recognized as one of the first British historianshumiliating captivity. His book told – or is supposed to have told - the story of the British monarchy during the Dark Ages, To prevent them from the arrival of the Trojan Brutusbeing rescued, grandson of Aeneas, up to the seventh century AD when in July 1918 the Anglo-Saxons revolutionary regime had taken control of Britain. Being virtually the only work of its kind at the time, it proved very influentialthem all shot and bayoneted to death in circumstances which, and became well-known throughout western Europe as one of once the great works of medieval literature as the first retelling of the story of King Arthurnews was confirmed beyond all doubt, Lear and Cymbeline. Shakespeare was forever horrified their relatives in his debt with regard to the two latterEurope. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445662744</amazonuk>