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[[Category:New Reviews|History]]==History==__NOTOC__<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Phillips1785633457|title=Holy WarriorsCharging Around: A Modern History Exploring the Edges of the CrusadesEngland by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating=45|genre=HistoryTravel|summary=In this book, drawing on Clive Wilkinson has a wealth history of contemporary sources including chronicles, songs, sermons, travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel diaries and peace treaties, as well as the existing literature from earlier generations, Phillips explores in depth the contradictions and . As he neared his eightieth birthday the diversity of holy war, idea of friendships and alliances between Christians and Muslims, exploring the launches edges of crusades against Christians, and calls for jihads against MuslimsEngland in an electric car was not totally outrageous. In doing so he has written what is not so much a general historyfact, but had vividly brought to life it should be a rich tapestry of figures pleasant holiday for Clive and events, while devoting equal attention in his narrative to the Christian and Islamic point of view. This traces the crusading impulse from the conquest of Jerusalem in the First Crusadewife, launched by Pope Urban II in France in 1095Joan, to today, and in the process helps us to understand the origins of some of the sensitivities which have led to many of the conflicts still raging in the world today.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184595078X</amazonuk>shouldn't it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin DavidsonB09BLBP3P8|title=The Perfect Nazi: Uncovering My SS GrandfatherNeville Chamberlain's Secret Past and War: How Great Britain Opposed Hitler Seduced a Generation, 1939-1940|author=Frederic Seager
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|summary=Meet Martin DavidsonReceived wisdom and simplified narrative often lead to misconceptions about history. Now, when I start my reviews like that, normally it means he's One such is the main character, but he's not here. He's big in scrubbing from the world popular imagination of BBC History documentaries, and grew up in the UKearly days of World War II from 1939-40, half Scottish and half German, knowing that many of his older relatives lived through known as the Second World ''Phoney War''. Foremost among them was his German grandfatherWe remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, Bruno Langbehnwar breaking out, who would have been of fighting age - and Churchill coming in his 30s - during to save the Third Reichday. Nothing much was ever said about Bruno's own history during the warVery little time is spent on this period in cultural reflections and yet, except for many inflammatoryas Frederic Seager argues in this book, rising comments by Bruno himself. It took the old man to die for the truth to be admitted by Martin's mother - their forefather it was of vital significance in how the SSwar played out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670916161</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Darnton3756228711|title=CDC: The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Futurehappy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Hans Bodmer
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|summary=Reading a book''The history of the development of IT could fill books of several hundred pages.'' Author Hans Bodmer is quite right about that. He has chosen to tell us about the short, whether for study or relaxationbut explosive, in history of the sitting room, in bedControl Data Company, on public transportCDC, or almost anywhere else, has been one of everybodyfor whom he worked. It's favourite activities for many a long yearfascinating tale, told in a mixture of technological summary and not just by visitors and contributors to this sitewry anecdote. (Therein lies a paradox, I hear you say). As Darnton points out in his introduction, the good old-fashioned book was not destroyed by newspapers (or magazines, for that matter), any more than television destroyed radio, or the internet made people abandon TV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>158648902X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John KeeganJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=The American Civil WarFritz and Kurt
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|genre=HistoryConfident Readers|summary=While before reading this book I considered myself to be vaguely familiar We start with the major facts about the American Civil War pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the fight to liberate the slavesempty market place, helping the well-known battlesneighbours, and the towering figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S Grant, and Robert E Lee – I was keen being dutiful when it comes to learn more about the war synagogue choir and get an in-depth view of it from at a renowned historianvocational school. After finishing Kurt has to make sure the book, I certainly consider myself to be far better informed lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the military, Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and tactical, side of things, but found it workmanlike as a little lacking in certain other areas such as the causes and effectslight switch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712616101</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Howarth|title=We Die Alone|rating=5|genre=Biography|summary=Consider taking a five day sail in a small fishing boat But this is the height of time just before the North Sea from Shetland, Austrian leader is going to cave to try and establishHitler's will, train and supply some potentially vital anti-German resistance in instead of having a national vote to keep the farNazis out, far north of occupied Norway, your homelandinvite them in with open arms. Imagine the sight of heavy naval parades where you intended to land''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as galling proof that your intel is ages out did all the round-ups of dateJews. Ponder too These in their turn leave the fact that you get reported younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to the Nazis due hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the most ridiculous slight of fortune. All your colleagues US, while Fritz and his father are dead or captured, your equipment blown up with your trawler unknown initially to keep it safe from Jerry handseach other, half your big toe has been shot packed off, and you're forced to go on the run in one of Europe's last, same train to Buchenwald and coldest, wildernessesthe stone quarry there. And you have no idea whatsoever quite us wondering how bad the titular event for the adult variant of all this scenario is going to get.could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847678459</amazonuk>024156574X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Norman RoseJohn Henry Phillips|title=A Senseless Squalid War: Voices From Palestine 1890s - 1948The Search
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|summary=The reappearance of 'Archaeology cannot be child'A Senselesss play, Squalid War'when you' re scraping in paperback will afford wider access 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 the balanced and detailed scholarship of Prof Norman Stonefind some specific thing. This book is a sad story case of the Palestinian Mandate retold through latter, as our author promises to locate the viewpoints topic of politicians and proponents; Arabthe titular search. And he really hasn't made it easy for himself – the search area is a wide one, Jewishthe target might not exist any more – oh, British, Frenchand it's underwater, German and Americanwhen he cannot dive. It energetically conveys an understanding of Latching on to a particular D-Day veteran through helping the character of figures as disparate as David Ben Gurionheroic old man's visit back to France, Richard Crossmanour author has promised to find the landing craft that delivered him to Normandy, Haj Amin and David Lloyd Georgethat he was lucky to survive when it sank from beneath him. OrganisationsThe secondary aim is to erect a memorial to everyone else aboard, conferences and sticking points are deftly expounded. It does not lose sight the overarching motives and machinations vast majority of International Politicswhom perished.Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845950798</amazonuk>1472146182
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul AddisonB09F4CTKJR|title=No Turning Back: The Peacetime Revolutions of Post-War BritainFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer
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|genre=HistoryHistorical Fiction|summary=In It's the opening chapter Addison, a child later stages of World War I and the 1940s, starts by comparing United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up and joined the leaders of 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the peacetime administrations that did most first US Aero Squadron to change be trained in Canada, the face of Britain after 1945. The first, Clement Attlee, was a modest, unassuming, even uncharismatic personality, yet he still led a genuinely radical to be attached to the RAF and reforming government. As the second, his admirer Margaret Thatcher, would point out first to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in her memoirs, not only did he achieve a great dealactive combat. But before that can happen, Petrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult but he did so because of, or perhaps despite, being all substance and no showmajestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192192671</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Green0578761718|title=Murder in the High HimalayaThe Inspiring History of a Special Relationship|author=Nancy Carver
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|summary=''The Hound church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the Baskervilles'' is one City of London from at least 1181, when it was first mentioned in records. Sadly, the original church was destroyed in the most famous mystery novels Great Fire of all, and also one of the most famous English novels set London in Devon1666. This alone would probably give more or less enough material for an entire book on connections between It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the story fire and then survived for centuries until World War II, when it was again ruined by bombs during the location which inspired itBlitz. Yet But that wasn't the end of its story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, the authors have found several more links between stones from the countychurch's walls were transported to Fulton, and Conan Doyle alongside those associated with himMissouri. The result has revealed much information of which even IThere, who have lived in the county nearly all my lifegrounds of Westminster College, the church was previously unawarerebuilt and today serves as a memorial to Winston Churchill.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312861</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny Diski1784385166|title=The SixtiesThird Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History of Nazi Germany|author=Roger Moorhouse|rating=45
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|summary=In What is the last few years, there have been many books first image that comes to mind when you think of varying length about the 60s. Most Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The gate to a concentration camp? None of them these are comfortable images but they are relatively self-contained histories emblematic of the decadeThird Reich's fascist regime in all its iniquity. But some objects and images from that time may be less familiar to you. In this short volume, often fairly liberal in adopting their signposts as Roger Moorhouse has attempted to when illustrate the era began and ended. (Blame Philip Larkin's famous poem for period of the confusion, I hear you say)Third Reich through one hundred of its material artefacts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846680042</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Charlotte MooreLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title=HancoxTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes
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|genre=HistoryGraphic Novels|summary=Hancox is I never really followed the large imposing house events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in rural Sussex where Charlotte Moore was brought upthe second half of their teens has other priorities, and where she still livesyou know. Although its origins are not fully documented, according to local records it I certainly existed by didn't know of the mid-15th century, its name probably derived weeks of protests and hunger strikes from that of John Handcocks, one of the early owners. In what is basically part family history students before the massacre and part biography the birth of the house itselfTank Man image, I didn't know how the author traces its story back to lawyer John Dountonarea had long been a venue for political protest, and I didn't know more than a spit about the first owner about whom nothing substantial is known, who made extensive alterations to it in 1569people involved on either side. It then passed through the hands of several families until her ancestors acquired it This book is practically flawless in 1888. In 1900 one of them let it to the Church of England Temperance Society as giving a drying-out house general browser's context for 'inebriates', but the arrangement was terminated in 1907 and the family moved whole season of protests back in1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670915866</amazonuk>1684056993
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances Woodsford0648684806|title=Dear Mr BigelowClara Colby: A Transatlantic FriendshipThe International Suffragist|author=John Holliday
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|genre=AutobiographyBiography|summary=Meet Mister Bigelow. HeThe path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's elderly, living alone on Long Island, New York, with some health problems but more than enough life was probably determined when her family and friends emigrated to get him by, and still a very active interest in yachting, regattas and morethe USA. MeetAt the time she was just three-years-old but because of some childhood ailment, too, Frances Woodsfordshe wasn't allowed to sail with her parents and three brothers. She's reaching middle-ageInstead, living she remained with her brother grandparents, who doted on her and mum saw that she received a good education, both in Bournemouth, and working for out of school. She was the only child in the local baths as organiser of events, office lackey household and moreher childhood was glorious. I suggest you do meet themBy contrast, although neither ever met her family had become pioneer farmers in the other. Despite this they kept up a brisk mid-west of the United States and lively conversation about all aspects of lifewas hard, from as Clara was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to join the late 1940s until his death at the beginning of the 60sfamily. And as Clara would only know her mother for a result comes this bookfew months: she was married for fifteen years, of heavily edited highlightshad ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and died in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the eldest girl, which opens up a world of social history heavy burden would fall on Clara and entertaining diary-style commentWisconsin was a rude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099542293</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Ackroyd1783784350|title=VeniceThis Golden Fleece: Pure CityA Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter|rating=45
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|summary=Among Peter AckroydIt was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, writing to people she's recent works are 'biographies' of London d never met and preparing spreadsheets. The job frustrated her and of the river Thameseven her knitting did not soothe her mind. Now he gives similar treatment January was going to Venice, basically be a history but enlivened time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the length and breadth of the British Isles with his elegant, literary styleoccasional forays abroad, discovering and telling the story of wool's history and how it had made and what changed the landscape. She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - '' a previous reviewer has called his love of free-range child on the farm'psychogeographical investigation'- and learned to spin, knit and weave from her mother and her mother's friend. This was in her blood.x|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099422565</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Benedict Gummer1789017977|title=The Scourging AngelRonnie and Hilda's Romance: The Black Death in the British IslesTowards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams|rating=4.5
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|summary=The mid-fourteenth century Ronnie Williams was an unsettled time for Englandthe son of Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wall. It 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 an already many years older than Ethel and he might well have shaved a few years off his age which saw . For a while the first phases of family was quite well-to-do but disaster struck in the protracted Hundred Years’ War with France, 1929 Depression and the Scottish war of independence, which came five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a very different lifestyle. One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to an end be well-turned-out and this would stay with the capture of King David IIhim throughout his life. As if these events were not enough, in 1346 there was He joined the first case of a man army at eighteen in Europe contracting an unknown disease that rapidly swept across the continent, claiming the lives of millions, and one medieval chronicler noted that 'the bodies looked like a macabre lasagne: corpses piled row upon row separated only by layers of dirt'1942.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099548836</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Beard1980891117|title=The ParthenonG Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the life of George Engleheart|author=John Webley
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|genre=HistoryArt|summary=Despite George Engleheart was one of the proliferation leading portrait miniaturists of populist historians in print and on televisionGeorgian London, Professor Mary Beard continues with a career lasting from the 1770s to be a voice apartthe Regency era. Her conversational style He was also one of writing belies the academic research at its heartmost prolific, painting nearly 5,000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of King George III). This Throughout most of that time he carefully recorded the names of each of his clients, and subsequently transcribed them into what is serious history written referred to as engagingly as a detective storyhis fee book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683491</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Beaumont1789016304|title=The Secret Life of Warand Love: Journeys Through Modern Conflict A family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin
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|summary=As Barratt points out Melanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in the opening pagesoccupied Amsterdam during World War II and was entranced by what she discovered, there are literally thousands particularly in ''The Diary of titles available about Ann Frank'' but then realised that her own family's stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the sinking of city during the Titanicwar years, at but only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a country with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the time Germans might reach the largestcity were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, most expensive and most luxurious ship ever built. His aim that the Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in this volume is to bridge the gap between another forensic examination of how way that it sankdid, and yet another re-run but initial protests melted away as the organisers became more circumspect. It's an atrocity on a vast scale but made up of tens of what he calls the familiar stories thousands of heroism and tragedy from literature in the public domain to provide the human story behind the disasterindividual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848091516</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stefan Klein1908745819|title=Leonardo's Legacy: How Da Vinci Reinvented the WorldSurfacing|author=Kathleen Jamie
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|summary=Sometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book, they tell you ''A source of hope for a radiant future or…the greatest threat 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 face book. That's a rare experience. People who are sensitive to hearing a book calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, I was told why. The blurb speaks of the earthauthor considering ''an older, less tethered sense of herself. Whichever of these descriptions you would apply to Communism you will find Archie Brown'' Older. Less tethered. That's detailed and largely objective study enlightening and engrossing. On one level, this is not a chronological bad description of how a political force grew where I am. Add to dominate a third that my love of the natural world's population then virtually disappeared within a period , of those aspects of the poetic and lyrical that are about style not form, and substance most of less than a centuryall, 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 fall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845950674</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Welshman0857058320|title=Churchill's Children: The Evacuee Experience in Wartime Britain Lord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)
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|summary=As ''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a little girl I was fascinated by stories from journey to uncover the second world warauthor's lost ancestor's life and death. My Nan would tell me tales of her work doing welding, my mumCercas is searching for the meaning behind his great uncle's uncle had exciting adventure stories from his years death in the RAFSpanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, Cercas' great uncle, and is the figure who looms large over the book Carrie. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's War was one I returned to again and againforces. So I was intrigued by Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this title which looks dictator. The question at the stories centre of thirteen children and adults through World War Two, from the first wave of evacuations through this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to be a hero whilst having fought for the end of the warwrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199574413</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catrine Clay0008294011|title=Trautmann's Journey: From Hitler Youth How to FA Cup Legend|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary='You have to learn to be hard men, to accept sacrifice without ever succumbing'. Such did Hitler say at the Nuremberg Nazi Party rallies in the 1930s. He probably did not have in mind playing in goal at Lose a FA Cup final with a broken neck, such is the lifetime of difference between the two references. But that lifetime, as packed and varied as it was, is in the pages of this ever-interesting and swiftly-devoured book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224082884</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chris Skidmore|title=Death and the VirginCountry: Elizabeth, Dudley and the Mysterious Fate of Amy Robsart |rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary=When Elizabeth I ascended the throne in November 1558, everyone's dominant concern was the matter of her taking an appropriate husband and securing the succession. The man most likely 7 Steps from Democracy to become her husband was Robert Dudley, whom she made her Master of the Horse and entrusted with considerable responsibility for her coronation festivities. The fact that he was already married to Amy Robsart did little to quell the speculation, especially since she was believed to be dying of breast cancer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297846507</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDictatorship|author=R A Scotti|title=The Lost Mona LisaEce Temelkuran
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|summary=One of 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 ''Discuss the few things I remember from those writersfactors which led to...'' courses and advice books – and I can hear from here you wished I remembered more of them – agreed that she was the merit in being aware of anniversaries, especially in your area of expertise, right and having the ability wasn't certain whether it was a good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was leading to sell articles concerning historical events linked into centenaries, modern comparisons, and so on. Well, here is the book equivalent, I think now that I do know. We are in danger of losing democracy and although whilst it's early – ita flawed system I can's looking back on t think of a better one, particularly as the summer of 1911 – this stands 'benevolent dictator' is as rare as quality enough to deny any latecomers shelf roomhen's teeth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0553818309</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Greg Grandin1788037812|title=FordlandiaThe Fraternity of the Estranged: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle CityFight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson|rating=4.5
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|summary=In 1927Originally passed in 1885, the Ford Motor company bought law that had made homosexual relations a huge tract of land crime remained in Brazilplace for 82 years. But during this time, for restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the purpose nature of the company growing its own rubber for use in making its carshomosexuality appeared. They planted rubber trees were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and built a factory John Addington Symonds, as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the margins of society and housesstudying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, but barely talked about in the UK, and a number so the publications of top managers from the company these men were posted hugely significant – contributing to Fordlandia to run the operation. Huge amounts scientific understanding of money were pumped into Fordlandiahomosexuality, and Ford made great claims beginning the struggle for their plans. Howeverrecognition and equality, leading to the project was a spectacular failure, and it lasted less than twenty yearsmilestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848311478</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dominique Lapierre1910593508|title=A Rainbow in the Night Apollo|ratingauthor=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=A book integrating otherwise piecemeal news stories picked up over the past forty years into a coherent explanation is always welcome. This book explores South Africa's history Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and development, from the earliest Dutch arrivals in 1652 to the first racially integrated elections in 1994.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0306818477</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Doug Stewart|title=The Boy Who Would Be ShakespeareMike Collins
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|summary=In This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to the Moon landings and the late 18th century, keen to impress passion for the Shakespeare-obsessed father who paid him little attentionsubject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, 19 year old William Henry Ireland forged Chris Baker and Mike Collins. This is a couple story we know well and because of Elizabethan documents this, the authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the blanks. These shortcuts are the only downside to show himthe book. With the older man completely taken in, his child then pretended heIf you'd found ve ever read a trunk full comic book adaptation of lost artefacts belonging to the Bard – love letters to Anne Hathaway, a declaration of his Protestant faith, film you will be familiar with the manuscript of King Lear, slight feeling that there are scenes missing and even entirely new playsthat dialogue has been trimmed. Ireland fooled not only his father, but also many of the prominent Londoners of the time, including Robert Southey, James Boswell, This is a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and the future William IVstill felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0306818310</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jim Krane1786331047|title=DubaiThe Race to Save the Romanovs: The Story of Truth Behind the WorldSecret Plans to Rescue Russia's Fastest CityImperial Family|author=Helen Rappaport|rating=4.5
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|summary=In The basic facts about the 1950'sdeaths of Nicholas and Alexandra, Dubai contained just a few thousand inhabitants scraping a living. By 1985, it had grown, but Sheikh Mohammed was still laughed some of which were deliberately obscured at when he said that he wanted to make it a popular destination the time for touristsvarious reasons, have long since been established. With For the addition last few months of artificial islands, their lives in Russia the world's tallest buildingformer Tsar and Tsarina, an indoor ski slopetheir children and few remaining servants were held in increasingly squalid, and much morehumiliating captivity. To prevent them from being rescued, it's now one of in July 1918 the world's foremost cities - but as headlines showed last yearrevolutionary regime had them all shot and bayoneted to death in circumstances which, once the stellar growth may have been extremely costlynews was confirmed beyond all doubt, horrified their relatives in terms of finances, environmental problems, and the quality of life for some of its inhabitantsEurope.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848870094</amazonuk>
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