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[[Category:New Reviews|History]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Alan Moorehead0578761718|title= The Russian Revolution|rating= 4|genre= Inspiring History|summary= First published in 1958, Moorhead's account is regarded as one of the most succinct accounts of its subject, and now reprinted to mark the centenary of the revolution.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445667320</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Adrian Mourby|title=Rooms with a View: The Secret Life of Great Hotels|rating=4|genre=Travel|summary=Adrian Mourby has given us a flying visit to each of fifty grand hotels, from fourteen regions of the world, with the hotels in each section being arranged chronologically rather than by region, which helps to give something of an overall picture. So what makes a hotel 'grand'? The first hotel to call itself 'grand' was in covent Garden in 1774 and it ushered in the beginning of a period when a hotel would be a lifestyle choice rather than a refuge for those without friends and family conveniently nearby. The hotels we visit all began life in different circumstances and each faced a different set of challenges. We begin in the Americas, move to the United Kingdom, circumnavigate Europe, briefly visit Russia and Turkey then northern Africa, India and Asia. Australia, it seems, does not go for the grand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785782754</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSpecial Relationship|author= Philip Matyszak|title=24 Hours in Ancient RomeNancy 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 her grandparents eventually went to join the drink of choice for 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? One answer was the pleasure gardens where the fashionable went to see fall on Clara and be seen: by the mid 1600s tea Wisconsin was also being served in places such as Ranelagh Gardensa rude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445670011</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Nathen Amin1783784350|title=The House of BeaufortThis Golden Fleece: The Bastard Line that Captured the CrownA Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter|rating= 45|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 family name job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. January was going to be a time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the length and breadth of the British Isles with occasional forays abroad, discovering and telling the story of Beaufort played wool's history and how it had made and changed the landscape. She'd grown up on a major part sheep farm in British history during Suffolk - '' a free-range child on the fourteenth farm'' - and learned to spin, knit and weave from her mother and fifteenth centuriesher mother's friend. It therefore seems remarkable that little has been written about them until the appearance of this book This was in her blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445647648</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rory Stewart1789017977|title= The Marches|rating= 5|genre= Travel|summary= The Observer quote on the front of the paperback edition of StewartRonnie and Hilda's latest book observes ''This is travel writing at its finest.'' Perhaps, but to call it travel writing is to totally under-sell it. This is erudition at its finest. Stewart has the background to do thisRomance: he had an international upbringing and followed his father in both the Army and the Foreign Office, and then (to his father's, bemusement, shall we say) became an MP. Oh, and he walked 6,000 miles across Afghanistan in 2002. A walk along the Scottish borders should be Towards a doddle by comparison.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581892</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewNew Life after World War II|author=Josh Dean|title=The Taking of K-129: The Most Daring Covert Operation in HistoryWendy Williams|rating=54

|summary=In February 1968 Ronnie Williams was the Soviet nuclear missile submarine K-129 left the port son of Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatka peninsula with a crew of 98 submarinersThomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wall. The captain and executive officers There's some doubt as to whether or not they were experiencedever married or even Harry's birthdate: the only factor giving cause for concern he claimed to have been born in 1863, but he was that the crew had only recently returned to base already many years older than Ethel and were expecting he might well have shaved a longer break and were only back at sea because two sister ships had experienced mechanical problems and were unfit for combat controlsfew years off his age. The Division Commander complained that For a while the decision family was cruel quite well-to-do but disaster struck in the 1929 Depression and potentially recklessfive-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a very different lifestyle. He would One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to be proved right - but not publicly well- as Kturned-129 went down out and this would stay with all hands in March 1968him throughout his life. It was a while before He joined the sSoviet navy realised that it had lost one of its submarines and despite an extensive search they couldn't find itarmy at eighteen in 1942.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445674742</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip Parker1980891117|title=50 Things You Should Know About G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the Vikingslife of George Engleheart|author=John Webley

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Art|summary=The Vikings have got a lot to own up to. A huge DNA study in 2014 George Engleheart was one of the first thing that proved to the Orkney residents that they had Viking blood in their veins – they had been insisting it was that leading portrait miniaturists of the Irish. The Vikings it was that forced our English king's army to march from Georgian London to Yorkshire to kill off one invasion, only to spend with a career lasting from the next fortnight schlepping back 1770s to Hastings to try and fend off another – and the Normans had Regency era. He was also one of the same Norse origin as the first lotmost prolific, painting nearly 5, hence the name000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of King George III). There is a Thames Valley village just outside Henley – ie pretty damned far from Throughout most of that time he carefully recorded the coast – that has a Viking longship on its signpost. Yes, they got to a lot names of each of places, from Greenland to Kievhis clients, from Murmansk to Turkey and the Med, and their misaligned history subsequently transcribed them into what is well worth visiting – particularly on these pagesreferred to as his fee book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784937908</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma Kay1789016304|title=Vintage KitchenaliaWar and Love: A family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin|rating=3.5

|summary=Over the half century Melanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and more that Iwas entranced by what she discovered, particularly in 've been preparing meals on a regular basis I've seen food preparation move from being just something you did, to an obsession akin to a religion. My first kitchen had nothing in the way The Diary of luxury - it was there to make meals as nutritiously and economically as possible: my current kitchen is not Ann Frank''quitebut then realised that her own family'' state of s stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the artwar years, but it's equipped only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a high standard and is a pleasure country with liberal values who were resistant to work inGerman occupation. But Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the Germans might reach the city were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, that the Amsterdammers would never allow what of all happened to escalate in the equipment which went beforeway that it did, which paved but initial protests melted away as the way to what we have now? organisers became more circumspect. Emma Kay is going to give you It's an atrocity on a quick trip through the historyvast scale but made up of tens of thousands of individual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445657511</amazonuk>

{{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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Rutherford0857058320|title=Landscape GardensLord Of All the Dead|author=Javier 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 JourneyThe Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family|author=Helen Rappaport|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary=This book traces The basic facts about the course deaths of historical journeys across the city in time Nicholas and spaceAlexandra, examining how some of which were deliberately obscured at the areas above the new Crossrail routetime for various reasons, have long since been established. For the largest building project currently under construction last few months of their lives in Europe offering high speed links across London, have changed over Russia the centuriesformer Tsar and Tsarina, with destruction their children and renewal being a constantly recurring process few remaining servants were held in the city's historyincreasingly squalid, humiliating captivity. It is a fascinatingTo prevent them from being rescued, compellingly readable exploration through in July 1918 the historical highways revolutionary regime had them all shot and byways of bayoneted to death in circumstances which, once the metropolisnews was confirmed beyond all doubt, horrified their relatives in Europe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587793</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan TriggWoolf_Great|title=Voices of the Flemish Waffen-SSThe Great Horizon: The Final Testament 50 Tales of the OostfrontersExploration|author=Jo Woolf

|summary=In Jo Woolf has compiled a brilliant set of fifty short insights into the week I write this, Trump has come under fire for not condemning fascistic behaviour in America from lives and achievements of some Neo-Nazisamazingly brave people. It strikes me that Their fearless journeys have helped us unlock many of the ''Neo-'' is a pointless dignification – yesmysteries of the wildest parts of our world, they cannot be deemed to follow Hitler precisely as he's long dead and burnt, so they're kind also given us an understanding of new, but common sense obliges me what it is like to just call them Nazis. Their excuse is they feel America has been invaded by be faced with the enemy – but what if you were indeed under occupation? Could you see yourself working for most terrible conditions and still have the forces that had indeed invaded you? The author begins by pointing determination and grit to carry on. This book could be viewed as a taster which encourages us to seek out that several countries were invaded by the Nazis, and they have different feelings read more about some of the people who worked against the commonly-held nationalistic aimmost iconic explorers. France hates her collaborators, but just north of the border things Their stories are different – pretty incredible and the picture is a lot more muddy as a resultWoolf does them justice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445666367</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Gerard CheshireMourby_Rooms|title= A History Rooms with a View: The Secret Life of Victorian PostageGreat Hotels|author=Adrian Mourby|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary=Although we think Adrian Mourby has given us a flying visit to each of fifty grand hotels, from fourteen regions of the world, with the hotels in each section being arranged chronologically rather than by region, which helps to give something of postage an overall picture. So what makes a hotel 'grand'? The first hotel to call itself 'grand' was in Covent Garden in 1774 and it ushered in the sending beginning of letters as a specifically Victorian innovation, its roots go far deeper period when a hotel would be a lifestyle choice rather than thata refuge for those without friends and family conveniently nearby. This book, which surveys The hotels we visit all began life in different circumstances and each faced a much broader time frame than different set of challenges. We begin in the title might suggestAmericas, presents us with an admirably concise picture of its development up move to its full fruition in the mid-nineteenth centuryUnited Kingdom, circumnavigate Europe, briefly visit Russia and Turkey then northern Africa, India and Asia. Australia, it seems, does not go for the grand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445664372</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=S Morris and N GrueningerHailstone_Berlin|title=In the Footsteps of Berlin in the Six Wives of Henry VIIICold War: The visitor's companion 1959 to the palaces, castles & houses associated with Henry VIII's iconic queens1966|author=Allan Hailstone|rating= 54|genre= History|summary= It was inevitable that each of ''Berlin in the Cold War: 1959-1966'' contains almost 200 photographs taken by author/photographer Allan Hailstone in his visits to the city during this period. The images provide an insight into the six wives changing nature of Henry VIII would have left their mark in some way on the places they lived divide between East and visited. This book straddles several categories; history, gazetteer or guide book, West Berlin and collection of potted biographiesa glimpse into life in the city during the Cold War. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>144567114X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Terry BrevertonMoorehead_Russian|title= Owen Tudor: Founding Father of the Tudor DynastyThe Russian Revolution|ratingauthor= 4.5Alan Moorehead|genrerating= Biography|summary= Owen Tudor The author was one writing from a slightly different stance from most other historians. Only a decade after the end of those shadowy yet very important characters in medieval history. While we may know little about him, or at least did not until this biography appearedthe Second World War, he was basing his historical importance can hardly be overestimated. Without himaccount on the premise that the Nazis' rise to power in Germany was connected with the heritage that Lenin had left behind, there and that without Stalin's assurances of support Hitler would never have been no Tudor dynastydared to plunge the world into such a devastating global conflict.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445654180</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Helen Doe|title= The First Atlantic Liner: BrunelIt was his belief that America's Great Western Steamship|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= Isambard Kingdom Brunel's enduring seafaring monuments were the Great Britain post-war commitments in Europe and Great Eastern. Their forerunner the Great WesternFar East, which paved the way and yet is now largely forgottenother post-1945 developments, at last merits a full account in this bookcould also be traced back to the events of 1917. Ms Doe admits at Much of his material came from German archives which were saved from destruction when the front Third Reich was on the brink of collapse. These documents 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 German government would have kept private had they won the war provided full detail on the ship, that attempts of their forebears to pave the people who travelled on her as crew or passengers, way for chaos and her influence on subsequent maritime history after an existence of barely two decadesrevolution in their Asiatic neighbour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445667207</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (translators)|title=The Unwomanly Face of War|rating=5

|summary=''War'', says Svetlana Alexievich, ''is first 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 a collection of first-hand accounts by Russian fighting women 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 19. They were passionate about defending their homeland and often extremely keen to join up, returning again and again to recruitment offices until someone could be persuaded to take them. Their ambition was to help their brothers, fathers, husbands to fight the terrible invader. They were trained and sent to the front, where they were greeted at first with disappointment and disgust by fighting men, who had hoped for reinforcements of able-bodied men. The women had to prove themselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141983523</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Andrew Lacey|title= The English Civil War in 100 Facts|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= The '100 Facts' series is now sufficiently well-established as a guarantee of useful introductory histories. This latest addition, recounting the struggle between King and Parliament, is no exception.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445649950</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lauren ElkinAnderson_Fantasyland|title=Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and LondonFantasyland|author=Kurt Andersen

|genre=History |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 Fantasyland covers the history of everything America from ''Madame Bovary'' 1517 to ''Revolutionary Road'')2017 in awesome detail. When she imagines to herself what the female version Covering five centuries of that well-known historical figuretempestuous history, Andersen paints the carefree ''flâneur''conjuring of America in vivid relief. Discussing everything from pilgrims to politicians, might be, she thinks about women who freely wandered the world's great cities without having the more insalubrious connotation of the word 'streetwalker' applied exhilarating gold rush to themalternative facts, seminal episodes are explored in forensic detail with razor-sharp wit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593378</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jeffrey JamesWay_Tea|title= Ireland: The Struggle for Power: From the Dark Ages to the Jacobites|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= The Tea Gardens (Britain'Irish troubles' go back over many centuries. When I and doubtless many others of my generation studied History at school, the Emerald Isle barely intruded on our consciousness, apart from brief references to the Battle of the Boyne and maybe the Easter Rising. This book therefore does us, and the country, a service in helping to fill 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 the Yorkist dynasty, which ruled England for little more than two decades, continue to proliferate. Michael Hicks, acknowledged as one of the great – although never sympathetic – experts on Richard III, has contributed an interesting chronicle to the shelves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660156</amazonuk>}}{{newreviews Heritage Series)|author=Clive Pearson|title=The Second World War in 100 FactsTwigs Way

|summary=To begin at Tea Gardens really began in London in the beginning, that is one dissembling titlelate 18th century: a trip to Kings Cross or St Pancras was effectively a trip to the country in those days. 100 Facts? There are bounties galore here that that low figure belies. There are a lot moreMen had their coffee houses, and I but they were not places where women could or would attest that there will be some you aren't completely au fait withseen. If Tea was introduced to England in the Phoney War and the Battle of the Plate are bread and butter to you, how about Matapan? You could well be used to reading essays about Goebbels or Speer, 17th century but Field-Marshal von Manstein? That's it was not until 1784 that the high duty was reduced from 119% to say this is utterly exhaustive or complex, nor confined to 12½% and tea became the trivial. Its unexpected format actually makes it one drink of the better primers choice for the entire WWII, before, during and afternation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445653532</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= John Ashdown-Hill|title= The Wars of Until then the Roses|rating= 4working classes had been fuelled largely by cheap gin.5|genre= History|summary= During my schooldaysOnly, I always found where would this beverage be drunk? One answer was the Wars of pleasure gardens where the Roses fashionable went to see and be seen: by the most fascinating period of English history. In those days we were taught that the battles began in 1455 and ended in 1485. Ashdownmid-Hill is one of several modern historians whose study of the subject extends these boundaries, and in this volume he starts with the reign of Richard II, ending late 1600s tea was also being served in the Elizabethan eraplaces such as Ranelagh Gardens.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660350</amazonuk>}}Move on to [[Newest Home and Family Reviews]]