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[[Category:New Reviews|History]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- Woolf -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=0578761718| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"The Inspiring History of a Special Relationship|author=Nancy Carver[[image:Woolf_Great|rating=4.jpg5|leftgenre=History|linksummary=https://www.amazonThe church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the City of London from at least 1181, when it was first mentioned in records.coSadly, the original church was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666.uk/gp/product/1910985880?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1910985880]]  | style="vertical-alignIt was rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the fire and then 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: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Great Horizon: 50 Tales after a phenomenal fundraising effort, the stones from the church's walls were transported to Fulton, Missouri. There, in the grounds of Exploration by Jo Woolf]]=== [[image:3Westminster College, the church was rebuilt and today serves as a memorial to Winston Churchill.5star.jpg}}{{Frontpage|linkisbn=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History1784385166|title=The Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History]], [[:Category:Travelof Nazi Germany|Travel]]author=Roger Moorhouse|rating=5Jo Woolf has compiled a brilliant set of fifty short insights into |genre=History|summary=What is the lives and achievements of some amazingly brave people. Their fearless journeys have helped us unlock many first image that comes to mind when you think of the mysteries of the wildest parts of our world, and also given us an understanding Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The gate to a concentration camp? None of these are comfortable images but they are emblematic of what it is like to be faced with the most terrible conditions Third Reich's fascist regime in all its iniquity. But some objects and still have the determination and grit images from that time may be less familiar to carry onyou. This book could be viewed as a taster which encourages us In this short volume, Roger Moorhouse has attempted to seek out and read more about some illustrate the period of the most iconic explorersThird Reich through one hundred of its material artefacts. Their stories are pretty incredible and Woolf does them justice. [[The Great Horizon: 50 Tales of Exploration by Jo Woolf|Full Review]] }} <!-- Hailstone -->{{Frontpage|-author=Lun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)| styletitle="widthTiananmen 1989: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Our Shattered Hopes|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels[[image:Hailstone_Berlin.jpg|left|linksummary=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445672901?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445672901]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Berlin in 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 Cold War: 1959 to 1966 by Allan Hailstone]]=== [[weeks of protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and the birth of the Tank Man image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]], [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] I didn't know how the area had long been a venue for political protest, and I didn''Berlin t know more than a spit about the people involved on either side. This book is practically flawless in the Cold War: 1959-1966giving a general browser'' contains almost 200 photographs taken by author / photographer Allan Hailstone in his visits to s context for the city during this period. The images provide an insight into the changing nature whole season of the divide between East and West Berlin and a glimpse into life protests back in the city during the Cold War1989. [[Berlin in the Cold War: 1959 to 1966 by Allan Hailstone|Full Review]]isbn=1684056993}}<!-- Moorehead -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=0648684806| styletitle="widthClara Colby: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"The International Suffragist|author=John Holliday[[image:Moorehead_Russian.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445667320?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445667320]] 4| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Biography|summary===[[The Russian Revolution by Alan Moorehead]]=== [[image:4starpath of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the USA.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]] The author was writing from At the time she was just three-years-old but because of some childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to sail with her parents and three brothers. Instead, she remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and saw that she received a slightly different stance from most other historiansgood education, both in and out of school. Only a decade after the end of the Second World War, he She was basing his account on the premise that only child in the Nazis' rise to power in Germany household and her childhood was connected with the heritage that Lenin had left behindglorious. By contrast, and that without Stalin's assurances of support Hitler would never have dared to plunge her family had become pioneer farmers in the world into such a devastating global conflict. It was his belief that America's postmid-war commitments in Europe and west of the Far East, United States and other post-1945 developmentslife was hard, could also be traced back as Clara was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to join the events of 1917family. Much of his material came from German archives which were saved from destruction when the Third Reich Clara would only know her mother for a few months: she was on the brink of collapsemarried for fifteen years, had ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and died in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. These documents that As the German government eldest girl, a heavy burden would have kept private had they won the war provided full detail on the attempts of their forebears to pave the way for chaos and revolution in their Asiatic neighbourfall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakening.[[The Russian Revolution by Alan Moorehead|Full Review]]}}<!-- Mourby -->{{Frontpage|isbn=1783784350|-title=This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Esther Rutter[[image:Mourby_Rooms.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785782754?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785782754]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"History|summary===[[Rooms with a View: It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, writing to people she'd never met and preparing spreadsheets. The Secret Life of Great Hotels by Adrian Mourby]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:History|History]] Adrian Mourby has given us a flying visit to each of fifty grand hotels, from fourteen regions 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 worldBritish Isles with occasional forays abroad, with discovering and telling the hotels in each section being arranged chronologically rather than by region, which helps to give something story of an overall picturewool's history and how it had made and changed the landscape. So what makes She'd grown up on a hotel sheep farm in Suffolk - 'grand'? The first hotel a free-range child on the farm'' - and learned to call itself 'grandspin, knit and weave from her mother and her mother' s friend. This was in covent Garden in 1774 and it ushered in the beginning of a period when her blood.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1789017977|title=Ronnie and Hilda's Romance: Towards a hotel would be a lifestyle choice rather than a refuge for those without friends New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams|rating=4|genre=History|summary=Ronnie Williams was the son of Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and family conveniently nearbyEthel Wall. The hotels we visit all began life in different circumstances and each faced a different set of challenges. We begin in the Americas, move There's some doubt as to the United Kingdomwhether or not they were ever married or even Harry's birthdate: he claimed to have been born in 1863, circumnavigate Europe, briefly visit Russia but he was already many years older than Ethel and Turkey then northern Africa, India and Asiahe might well have shaved a few years off his age. Australia, it seems, does not go for For a while the grand. [[Rooms with a View: The Secret Life of Great Hotels by Adrian Mourby|Full Review]] <!family was quite well-to- Anderson do but disaster struck in the 1929 Depression and five-year->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; textold Ronnie had to adjust to a very different lifestyle. One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to be well-turned-align: center;"|[[image:Anderson_Fantasylandout and this would stay with him throughout his life.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co He joined the army at eighteen in 1942.uk/gp/product/1785038656?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785038656]]}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"1980891117|===[[Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen]]title=G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the life of George Engleheart|author=John Webley|rating=4.5 [[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:HistoryArt|History]], [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] Fantasyland covers summary=George Engleheart was one of the history leading portrait miniaturists of America Georgian London, with a career lasting from 1517 the 1770s to 2017 in awesome detailthe Regency era. Covering five centuries He was also one of tempestuous history, Andersen paints the conjuring of America in vivid relief. Discussing everything from pilgrims to politiciansmost prolific, the exhilarating gold rush to alternative factspainting nearly 5, seminal episodes are explored in forensic detail with razor sharp wit000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of King George III). [[Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen|Full Review]]<br> <br> <!-- Way -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Way_Tea.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445670011?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445670011]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Tea Gardens (Britain's Heritage Series) by Twigs Way]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]], [[:Category:History|History]] Tea Gardens really began in London in the late 18th century: a trip to Kings Cross or St Pancras was effectively a trip to the country in those days. Men had their coffee houses, but they were not places where women could or would be seen. Tea was introduced to England in the 17th century but it was not until 1784 that the high duty was reduced from 119% to 12½% and tea became the drink of choice for the nation. Until then the working classes had been fuelled largely by cheap gin. Only, where would this beverage be drunk? One answer was the pleasure gardens where the fashionable went to see and be seen: by the mid 1600s tea was also being served in places such as Ranelagh Gardens. [[Tea Gardens (Britain's Heritage Series) by Twigs Way|Full Review]] <!-- Stewart -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Stewart_Marches.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0099581892?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0099581892]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Marches by Rory Stewart]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:History|History]] The Observer quote on the front of the paperback edition of Stewart'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 this: 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 a doddle by comparison. [[The Marches by Rory Stewart|Full Review]] <!-- Parker -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Parker_50.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1784937908?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1784937908]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[50 Things You Should Know About the Vikings by Philip Parker]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:History|History]] The Vikings have got a lot to own up to. A huge DNA study in 2014 was the first thing that proved to the Orkney residents that they had Viking blood in their veins – they had been insisting it was that of the Irish. The Vikings it was that forced our English king's army to march from London to Yorkshire to kill off one invasion, only to spend the next fortnight schlepping back to Hastings to try and fend off another – and the Normans had the same Norse origin as the first lot, hence the name. There is a Thames Valley village just outside Henley – ie pretty damned far from the coast – that has a Viking longship on its signpost. Yes, they got to a lot of places, from Greenland to Kiev, from Murmansk to Turkey and the Med, and their misaligned history is well worth visiting – particularly on these pages. [[50 Things You Should Know About the Vikings by Philip Parker|Full Review]] <!-- Maconie -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:MACONIE_lONG.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785030531/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Long Road From Jarrow by Stuart Maconie]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] I cancelled my ''Country Walking'' magazine subscription about a year ago and the only thing I miss is Stuart Maconie'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. Let'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 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 of events reducible to one word like Aberfan, Hillsborough, or Orgreave'' then somehow it does become part of my history too. Tangentially, at least. [[Long Road From Jarrow by Stuart Maconie|Full Review]] <!-- Kay -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Kay Vintage.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445657511?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445657511]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Vintage Kitchenalia by Emma Kay]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Cookery|Cookery]] Over the half century and more that I'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 of luxury - it was there to make meals as nutritiously and economically as possible: my current kitchen is not quite state of the art, but it's equipped to a high standard and is a pleasure to work in. But what of all the equipment which went before, which paved the way to what we have now? Emma Kay is going to give you a quick trip through the history. [[Vintage Kitchenalia by Emma Kay|Full Review]] <!-- Rutherford -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Rutherford_Landscape.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445669935?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445669935]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Landscape Gardens by Sarah Rutherford]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Art|Art]] 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 flatness 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 of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown. Sarah Rutherford's ''Landscape Gardens'' was an opportunity to put him in context. [[Landscape Gardens by Sarah Rutherford|Full Review]] <!-- Hayward -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Hayward New.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1442279419?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1442279419]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Juan Altamiras' New Art of Cookery: A Spanish Friar's Kitchen Notebook by Vicky Hayward]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Cookery|Cookery]] In 1745 a Spanish friary cook, Juan Altamiras, published the first edition of his ''New Art of Cookery, Drawn From the School of Economic Experience''. It contained more than two hundred recipes for meat, poultry, game, salted and fresh fish, vegetables and desserts. The style was informal, chatty and humorous on occasions and it was aimed, not at those who could afford to cook on a grand scale, but at those with more modest budgets, who sometimes needed to cook for large numbers. Whilst the ingredients were - for the most part - modestly priced there is a stress on the careful combination of flavours and aromas. Spices are used conservatively and the bluntness of some Moorish cooking is eschewed in favour of something much more subtle and we see influences from Altamiras' own region, Aragon, the Iberian court and the New World. [[Juan Altamiras' New Art of Cookery: A Spanish Friar's Kitchen Notebook by Vicky Hayward|Full Review]] <!-- MATYSZAK -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Matysak_24.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1782438564/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[24 Hours in Ancient Rome by Philip Matyszak]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]] I've never been that interested in Ancient Rome. Blame my teachers, or our oh-so-dry visits to Roman villas with their earnest interpretation panels, or perhaps I just daydreamed through all the interesting bits… Somehow I entered adulthood with the impression that all Romans were bloodthirsty and hedonistic heathens with little to recommend them. ''Mea culpa'', you might say. So when my eye fell upon Philip Matyszak's ''24 Hours in Ancient Rome'', and its claim to introduce readers to the real Ancient Rome by examining the lives of ordinary people, I decided it was high time to update my education. And the lovely artwork on the front cover made this book all the more appealing. [[24 Hours in Ancient Rome by Philip Matyszak|Full Review]]  <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE --> |} {{newreview|author= Sharon Bennett Connolly|title= Heroines of the Medieval World|rating= 5|genre= History|summary= Many women in medieval times left their mark on historyThroughout most of that time he carefully recorded the names of each of his clients, but and subsequently transcribed them into what is referred to as a rule they have been neglected by biographers and historians as there is too little surviving information for them to have even brief biographies to themselveshis fee book. Ms Connolly has adopted an enterprising solution to the problem by writing a general account on a broadly thematic basis.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445662647</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Nathen Amin1789016304|title=The House War and Love: A family's testament of Beaufort: The Bastard Line that Captured the Crownanguish, 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 ''The Diary of Ann Frank'' but then realised that her own family name of Beaufort played a major part in British history 's stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the fourteenth war years, but only five thousand survived and fifteenth centuriesMartin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a country with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. It therefore seems remarkable 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 happened to escalate in the way that little has been written about them until it did, but initial protests melted away as the appearance organisers became more circumspect. It's an atrocity on a vast scale but made up of this booktens of thousands of individual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445647648</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Josh Dean1908745819|title=The Taking of K-129: The Most Daring Covert Operation in HistorySurfacing|author=Kathleen Jamie

|summary=In February 1968 the Soviet nuclear missile submarine K-129 left the port of Petropavlovsk Sometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book, 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 Kamchatka peninsula with book. That's a rare experience. People who are sensitive to hearing a crew of 98 submarinersbook calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, I was told why. The captain and executive officers were experienced: blurb speaks of the only factor giving cause for concern was that the crew had only recently returned to base and were expecting author considering ''an older, less tethered sense of herself.'' Older. Less tethered. That's not a longer break and were only back at sea because two sister ships had experienced mechanical problems and were unfit for combat controlsbad description of where I am. The Division Commander complained Add to that my love of the natural world, of those aspects of the decision was cruel poetic and potentially reckless. He would be proved right - but lyrical that are about style not publicly - as K-129 went down with form, and substance most of all hands in March 1968, about connection. Of course, this book had my name on it. It was a while before the sSoviet navy realised that it had lost one of written for me. It would have found its submarines and despite an extensive search they couldn't find way to me eventually. I am pleased to have itfall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445674742</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martyn Beardsley0857058320|title= Waterloo Voices 1815: The Battle at First HandLord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= The battle of Waterloo, fought on a midsummer day on ''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a muddy field in Belgium, brought an end journey to two decades of war uncover the author's lost ancestor's life and death. Cercas is searching for the meaning behind his great uncle's death in Europethe Spanish Civil War. As one of Manuel Mena, Cercas' great uncle, is the pivotal events of figure who looms large over the nineteenth century, it has inevitably been book. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. The question at the focus centre of many accounts over this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to be a hero whilst having fought for the last two hundred yearswrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660164</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Susan Duxbury-Neumann0008294011|title= What Have the Germans Ever Done for Us?How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary=A History 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 factors which led to...'' I agreed that she was right and wasn't certain whether it was a good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was leading to. I think now that I do know. We are in danger of losing democracy and whilst it's a flawed system I can't think of a better one, particularly as the German Population 'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1788037812|title=The Fraternity of Great Britainthe Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson|rating= 45|genre= History|summary= The adapted Monty Pythonesque rhetorical question takes some Originally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time to provide a full answer, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the nature of homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the margins of society and this slim studying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, but useful volume does barely talked about in the UK, so very wellthe publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the scientific understanding of homosexuality, and beginning the struggle for recognition and equality, leading to the milestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1910593508|title=Apollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins|rating=5|genre=History|amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>1445664860</amazonuk>This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to the Moon landings and the passion for the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins. This is a story 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 that dialogue has been trimmed. This is a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and still felt too short.

{{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>