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[[Category:New Reviews|History]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Andrew Lacey1785633457|title= The English Civil War in 100 FactsCharging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating= 4.5|genre= HistoryTravel|summary= The '100 Facts' series is now sufficiently well-established as Clive Wilkinson has a guarantee history of useful introductory historiestravelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. This latest additionAs he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of exploring the edges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageous. In fact, recounting the struggle between King it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and Parliamenthis wife, Joan, is no exception.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445649950</amazonuk>shouldn't it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lauren ElkinB09BLBP3P8|title=FlaneuseNeville Chamberlain's War: Women Walk How Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940|author=Frederic Seager|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary=Received wisdom and simplified narrative often lead to misconceptions about history. One such is the City in Parisscrubbing from the popular imagination of the early days of World War II from 1939-40, New Yorkknown as the ''Phoney War''. We remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, Tokyowar breaking out, Venice and LondonChurchill coming in to save the day. Very little time is spent on this period in cultural reflections and yet, as Frederic Seager argues in this book, it was of vital significance in how the war played out.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=3756228711|title=CDC: The happy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Hans Bodmer

|genre=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 The history of the development of IT could fill books of everything from several hundred pages.''Madame Bovary'' to ''Revolutionary Road'') Author Hans Bodmer is quite right about that. When she imagines He has chosen to herself what tell us about the female version short, but explosive, history of that well-known historical figure, the carefree ''flâneur''Control Data Company, might beCDC, she thinks about women who freely wandered the worldfor whom he worked. It's great cities without having the more insalubrious connotation a fascinating tale, told in a mixture of the word 'streetwalker' applied to themtechnological summary and wry anecdote.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593378</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jeffrey JamesJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title= Ireland: The Struggle for Power: From the Dark Ages to the JacobitesFritz and Kurt|rating= 4.5|genre= HistoryConfident Readers|summary= The 'Irish troubles' go back over many centuries. When I We start with the 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 empty market place, helping the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and doubtless many others of my generation studied History at a vocational school, . Kurt has to make sure the Emerald Isle barely intruded lamps are turned on our consciousnessat their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, apart from brief references and instead of having a national vote to keep the Battle Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the round-ups of Jews. These in their turn leave the Boyne younger Kurt at home with his mother and maybe sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the Easter Rising. This book therefore does usUS, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the country, a service in helping same train to fill a very large gapBuchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445662469</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Michael HicksJohn Henry Phillips|title= The Family of Richard IIISearch|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>}}{{newreview|author=Clive Pearson|title=The Second World War in 100 Facts|rating=45

|summary=To begin at the beginningArchaeology cannot be child's play, that is one dissembling title. 100 Facts? There are bounties galore here that that low figure belies. There are a lot more, and I would attest that there will be some when you aren't completely au fait with. If re scraping in the Phoney War and the Battle of the Plate are bread and butter dirt looking to find what youcan find, how about Matapan? You could well often knowing there should be used to reading essays about Goebbels or Speer, something there but Field-Marshal von Manstein? That's not always confident what. Archaeology must be a fair bit harder when you set out to say this find some specific thing. This book is utterly exhaustive or complexa case of the latter, nor confined as our author promises to locate the topic of the trivialtitular search. Its unexpected format actually makes And he really hasn't made it easy for himself – the search area is a wide one of , the better primers for target might not exist any more – oh, and it's underwater, when he cannot dive. Latching on to a particular D-Day veteran through helping the entire WWIIheroic old man's visit back to France, beforeour author has promised to find the landing craft that delivered him to Normandy, during and afterthat he was lucky to survive when it sank from beneath him.The secondary aim is to erect a memorial to everyone else aboard, the vast majority of whom perished. Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445653532</amazonuk>1472146182

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Ashdown-HillB09F4CTKJR|title= The Wars of the RosesFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer|rating= 4.5|genre= HistoryHistorical Fiction|summary= During my schooldays, I always found It's the Wars later stages of World War I and the Roses United States has just entered the most fascinating period of English historyconflict. In those days we were taught that Petrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up and joined the battles began in 1455 and ended in 148517 Aero Squadron. Ashdown-Hill is one of several modern historians whose study of This company was the subject extends these boundariesfirst US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, the first to be attached to the RAF and the first to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in this volume he starts with the reign of Richard IIactive combat. But before that can happen, ending late in Petrol has to master flying the Elizabethan eranotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660350</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Charles Drazin0578761718|title= Mapping the Past: A Search for Five Brothers at the Edge The Inspiring History of Empirea Special Relationship|author=Nancy Carver|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary=''Mapping The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the Past'' is City of London from at once a personal quest into the author's family historyleast 1181, and an account of some of the interestingwhen it was first mentioned in records. Sadly, perhaps even amazing things the Royal Engineers have achieved over original church was destroyed in the past couple Great Fire of centuriesLondon in 1666. Drazin is descended It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a generation of Engineers; five brothers who all served in the Army, mostly as surveyors mapping design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the far flung parts of the Empire. This was despite them being both Irish fire and Catholic. He uncovers their paststhen survived for centuries until World War II, the many things they undertook and how when it affected them in was again ruined by bombs during the endBlitz. ItBut that wasn's t the end of its story: after a story thatphenomenal fundraising effort, the stones from the church's uplifting and extremely sadwalls were transported to Fulton, Missouri. There, in the grounds of Westminster College, as the First World War church was rebuilt and the Easter Rising in 1916 seem today serves as a memorial to mark a true watershed for his familyWinston Churchill.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099468271</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lyndal Roper1784385166|title= Martin LutherThe Third Reich in 100 Objects:Renegade and ProphetA Material History of Nazi Germany|author=Roger Moorhouse|rating= 5|genre= History|summary= Exactly five centuries ago in October 2017, Martin Luther nailed his ninety-five theses against What is the sale first image that comes to mind when you think of indulgences the Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The gate to the door a concentration camp? None of these are comfortable images but they are emblematic of the All SaintsThird Reich' Church s fascist regime in Wittenbergall its iniquity. The ensuing maelstrom ripped the Christian church asunder But some objects and changed the course of historyimages from that time may be less familiar to you. But how was a provincial professor in a cassock able to set the Reformation in motion, despite papal and imperial authority being ranged against him? In a biography which was ten years in the makingthis short volume, Lyndal Roper strips away mythology Roger Moorhouse has attempted to illuminate the facts underneath (for starters, it is highly unlikely that Luther actually nailed illustrate the ninety-five theses to the door). She provides a thoughtful analysis period of the forces which drove the evangelical preacher and convincingly explains his contradictions – why, after decades Third Reich through one hundred of monastic observance did he marry a nun and develop a love of German beer and wine? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784703443</amazonuk>its material artefacts. 

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= A T WilliamsLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title= A Passing FuryTiananmen 1989: Searching for Justice at the End of World War IIOur Shattered Hopes|rating= 4.5|genre= HistoryGraphic Novels|summary= In ''A Passing Fury,'' we follow an Orwell Prize-winning law academic's journey through Germany as he pursues I never really followed the legal history events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in the trials waged by the British, and to some extent second half of their teens has other Allied forcespriorities, against the newly-fallen Nazi regimeyou know. This is a deeply personal account, that reads very much like a travelogue in places. Williams is affected at every turn by harrowingly familiar accounts I certainly didn't know of life in the concentration camp system, such as those weeks of protests and hunger strikes from the students before the esteemed Italian writer massacre and academic Primo Levi, who features throughout the book. More striking to birth of the readerTank Man image, however, are I didn't know how the often-forgotten atrocities Williams describes that failed to make area had long been a mark on our collective memoryvenue for political protest, such as and I didn't know more than a spit about the Cap Arcona tragedy, in which some 7,000 concentration camp internees were killed people involved on either side. This book is practically flawless in giving a British air raid. Horrors such as these, which largely go unremembered, raise many questions, chief among them, was justice served? Williams pursues answers to this question throughout his investigation, which is just shy general browser's context for the whole season of 500 pages longprotests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099593262</amazonuk>1684056993

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David Grann0648684806|title= Killers of the Flower MoonClara Colby: The International Suffragist|author=John Holliday|rating= 54|genre= True CrimeBiography|summary=Killers The path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the Flower Moon tells USA. At the story time she was just three-years-old but because of the Osage tribesome childhood ailment, forced she wasn't allowed to settle in the rockysail with her parents and three brothers. Instead, uninhabitable wilds of Oklahoma in what would become Osage County. In an unexpected turn of fortuneshe remained with her grandparents, prospectors struck oilwho doted on her and saw that she received a good education, instantly catapulting the Osage into unimaginable wealth both in and fortune making them some out of school. She was the richest people only child in the worldhousehold and her childhood was glorious. Then members of By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the tribe start to die, slowly at first mid-west of apparently natural causes then in increasingly violent ways. Investigation into the matter stalls United States and is beset by incompetence life was hard, as Clara was to find out when she and a general lack of interest in her grandparents eventually went to join the fate of the Osage until the FBI becomes involved and draws together family. Clara would only know her mother for a team of battle scarredfew months: she was married for fifteen years, had ten pregnancies, unorthodox agents led by former Texas Ranger Tom Whiteseven surviving children and died in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. As pressure on White increases, from both the FBI and the increasingly angry Osageeldest girl, the race to find the truth becomes increasingly difficult, with more twists a heavy burden would fall on Clara and double crosses than any murder mysteryWisconsin was a rude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857209027</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Feiling1783784350|title=The Island that DisappearedThis Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter

|summary= 'The Island that Disappeared' tells the history of the, largely now forgotten, island of Providence in the Caribbean. It is a fascinating was December and compelling account of what might have been but ultimately is the story of greedEsther Rutter was stuck in her office job, ambition writing to people she'd never met and preparing spreadsheets. The job frustrated her and human natureeven her knitting did not soothe her mind. In 1630 on board the Seaflower, a sister ship January was going to the Mayflower, be a small group of English puritans sailed to the island to establish a new colony. They were convinced in their belief time for making changes and she decided that the British Empire she would rise in travel the Central America length and not in New England. The hopes that they carried was soon destroyed by failing cropsbreadth of the British Isles with occasional forays abroad, quarrels and rebellions and many turned to piracy discovering and telling the plundering story of Spanish treasure ships. Within ten years, the Spanish retaliated wool's history and how it had made and invaded the island, wiping changed the colony outlandscape. Providence became She'd grown up on a footnote of history until it was resettled over sheep farm in Suffolk - '' a hundred years later. The book tells free-range child on the islandfarm's story ' - and learned to spin, knit and weave from its early puritan beginnings to the present her mother and through its telling it provides a fascinating microcosm of the world we live her mother's friend. This was in todayher blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911184040</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Twigs Way1789017977|title=Allotments (BritainRonnie and Hilda's Heritage Series)Romance: Towards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams

|summary= Harold is in Ronnie Williams was the unenviable position for being remembered son of Thomas Henry Williams (known as the monarch who was defeated Harry) and killed Ethel Wall. There's some doubt as to whether or not they were ever married or even Harry's birthdate: he claimed to have been born in the Norman conquest1863, but he was already many years older than Ethel and almost nothing elsehe might well have shaved a few years off his age. He does not even merit For a passing mention while the family was quite well-to-do but disaster struck in the renowned 1930s spoof English history, '1066 1929 Depression and five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a very different lifestyle. One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to be well-turned-out and all That', which no doubt has this would stay with him throughout his life. He joined the army at eighteen in their category of 'Unmemorable Kings'. This book is thus inevitably a history rather than a biography of someone about whom undisputed facts are rather lacking1942. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>144565721X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Zuehlke and Claude St Aubin1980891117|title=The Loxleys and ConfederationG Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the life of George Engleheart|author=John Webley|rating=34.5|genre=Graphic NovelsArt|summary=There is a huge hole in my history knowledge where North America is concerned. Slowly, from an opening George Engleheart was one of the leading portrait miniaturists of sheer ignoranceGeorgian London, having never studied it whatsoever at school, I've got with a small grip on things like career lasting from the Civil War, 1770s to the foundations Regency era. He was also one of the USA and a few other things. But that means nothing as far as this book is concernedmost prolific, for that huge hole is Canada. Nopainting nearly 5, I didn't have an inkling about how it was trying to unify, just as the American Civil War was in full pelt just across the border000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of King George III). I didn't know what was there before Canada, if you see what I mean. The story does have some things in common with Throughout most of that time he carefully recorded the names of their southern neighbours – European occupancy being slowly turned into a list each of states as we know his clients, and subsequently transcribed them now, slowly spreading into the heart of the continent with the help of the railways etc; native 'Indians' being 'in the way'; past trading agreements what is referred to either maintain or try to improve on; and so on – but of course it also had the British vs French issueas his fee book. But did you know how an American President getting shot at the theatre had a bearing on the story? Or the Irish? Like I said, a huge hole…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992150892</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lynn Knight1789016304|title= The Button BoxWar and Love: A family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin|rating= 45|genre= History|summary= Buttons are 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's stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the underdogs of city during the war years, 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 clothing worldoccupation could never happen: dismissed as functional elements of clothing, falling into even those who thought that the Germans might reach the same dustbin category with zips and shoe laces, city were convinced that they tend to would soon be seen as necessary for keeping clothes onpushed back, rather than contributors that the Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to style. But Lynn Knight is set to prove escalate in the way that it did, but initial protests melted away as the opposite is trueorganisers became more circumspect. We think nothing It's an atrocity on a vast scale but made up of tens of lacing discussions about clothing and feminism with headscarves, bikinis, and underweight models – and buttons deserve a place on the pedestal thousands of gender discussion, tooindividual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593092</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sarah Fraser1908745819|title= The Prince Who Would Be King: The Life and Death of Henry StuartSurfacing|author=Kathleen Jamie|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography History|summary= Henry StuartSometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book, eldest child of King James VI and Ithey tell you ''this one has your name on it''. Mostly we take them at their word, was or not , but rarely do we ask them why they thought so unless it turns out that we didn't like the only eldest son of book. That's a monarch rare experience. People who did not live long enough are sensitive to succeed to the thronehearing a book calling your name, rarely get it wrong. The list also included Arthur (son of Henry VII) and Albert Victor (Edward VII). Of the threeIn this case, Henry undoubtedly showed the most promiseI was told why.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007548087</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Paul Flynn|title= Good As You: From Prejudice to Pride - 30 Years of Gay Britain|rating= 5|genre= History |summary= The last 30 years have seen a tidal wave blurb speaks of change sweep the country with regards to how gay people are perceived and accepted. In 1984author considering ''an older, the pulsing electronic beats less tethered sense of herself.''Smalltown Boy Older. Less tethered. That'' became an anthem to unite Gay Men, but just a month later, s not a virus called HIV would be identified, spreading a climate bad description of panic and fear across the nation, and marginalising a community who were already ostracisedwhere I am. 30 years later though, the long road Add to gay equality would reach a climax with that my love of the legalistion natural world, of those aspects of gay marriage. Journalist Paul Flynn charts this remarkable journey via the cultural milestones poetic and lyrical that affected this change - with interviews with such protagonists as Kylie, Russell T Davies, Will Youngare about style not form, Holly Johnson and Lord Chris Smith. This is the story substance most of Britain's brothersall, sons, cousins, fathers and husbandsabout connection. Of public outrage and personal losscourse, the (not always legal) highs and desperate lows, and the final collective victory as Gay Men were finally recognised 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 be as Good As Youhave it fall onto my path so quickly. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785032925</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Miles Russell0857058320|title= Arthur and the Kings of Britain: The Historical Truth Behind Lord Of All the MythsDead|ratingauthor= 4.5|genre= History|summary= As the author of the Historia Regum Britanniae Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (History of the Kings of Britaintranslator), written in 1136, Geoffrey of Monmouth is commonly recognized as one of the first British historians. His book told – or is supposed to have told - the story of the British monarchy during the Dark Ages, from the arrival of the Trojan Brutus, grandson of Aeneas, up to the seventh century AD when the Anglo-Saxons had taken control of Britain. Being virtually the only work of its kind at the time, it proved very influential, and became well-known throughout western Europe as one of the great works of medieval literature as the first retelling of the story of King Arthur, Lear and Cymbeline. Shakespeare was forever in his debt with regard to the two latter. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445662744</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mark Aylwin Thomas|title= Blades of Grass|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary= Any book that has me in tears at the end has been worth my time. Any book that has me hoping it will end differently to the way I know it must is worth the reading. Any book that convinces me that maybe there is still hope in the world – that for all the mistakes made thus far, still being made right now, there is a common humanity which ultimately, eventually, must do some good – that is worth the writing and the reading and the time. Blades of Grass is one such book. It's a forgotten story, an unknown story to most people. It is one that should be told – and reflected upon.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524676969</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Andrew Cook|title= The Murder of the Romanovs|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= The fate of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Alexandra and children, fuelled no end of rumour, misinformation and conspiracy theories for many years, even though the truth was known not long after the event. In the last few years, the advance of forensic science, DNA testing and the precise location of the bodies have allowed for confirmation of the exact truth and a dismissal of claims by a noted so-called surviving Grand Duchess. Even so, as Andrew Cook notes, straight after the deaths of the imperial family 'there would begin a ninety-year battle between science and superstition which is not over yet'. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445666278</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sarah Bakewell|title= At The Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails

|genre= Politics and SocietyHistory|summary= You know that old saying about judging books by their cover? Ignore it! I have found that by judging ''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a book by its cover journey to uncover the author's lost ancestor's life and getting it completely wrong death. Cercas is a searching for the meaning behind his great way to find yourself committed to reading a book that youuncle'd never have picked s death in a million years and yetthe Spanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, somehowCercas' great uncle, being amazingly glad you didis the figure who looms large over the book. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. The question at the centre of this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to be a hero whilst having fought for the wrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554887</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Helen Hollick0008294011|title= PiratesHow to Lose a Country: Truth and TaleThe 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary=The eighteenth century lived A little while ago a friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in terror of years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the tramps of question ''Discuss the seas – piratesfactors which led to. Pirates have fascinated people ever since. It .'' I agreed that she was right and wasn't certain whether it was a harsh life for those who went good or bad thing that we didn'on the accountt know what all ', constantly overshadowed by the threat of death – through violence, illness, shipwreck, or the hangmanthis's noosewas leading to. The lure of gold, the excitement of the chase and the freedom I think now that life aboard a pirate ship offered were judged by some to be worth the riskI do know. Helen Hollick explores both the fiction and fact of the Golden Age We are in danger of piracy, losing democracy and there are some surprises in store for those who whilst it's a flawed system I can't think they know their Barbary Corsair from their boucanier. Everyone has heard of Captain Morgana better one, but who recognises particularly as the name of the aristocratic Frenchman Daniel Montbars? He killed so many Spaniards he was known as 'The Exterminatorbenevolent dictator'. The fictional world of pirates, represented in novels and movies, is different from realityas rare as hen's teeth. What draws readers and viewers to these notorious hyenas of the high seas? What are the facts behind the fantasy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445652153</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Timothy Venning1788037812|title= Kingmakers: How Power in England Was Won and Lost on the Welsh Frontier|rating= 3.5|genre= History|summary= Between the Norman conquest and the Tudor period, Britain often seemed to be on the verge of civil war. The Anglo-Welsh borders were a perpetual source Fraternity of trouble, kept at bay only by the Marcher lords appointed by the King of Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England to guard the Welsh Marches.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445659409</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Nigel Linge and Andy Sutton|title= The British Phonebox|rating= 4.5|genre= History |summary= The mobile phone must be one of the most used, must1891-have accessories of the modern age, the one device you cannot escape from in public. Some of us with (relatively) long memories must look back on the age when the bright red phonebox reigned supreme as a long time ago.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445663082</amazonuk>}}{{newreview1908|author=Martin Wall|title=Warriors and Kings: The 1500-Year Battle for Celtic BritainBrian Anderson|rating= 4.5

|summary= For several centuriesOriginally passed in 1885, much of the ancient law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and medieval history 1908, three books on the nature of Britain was one forged in war homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as the Celtic peoples took a stand against invasion heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the margins of society and oppression. First it studying homosexuality was common on the RomansEuropean Continent, then but barely talked about in the SaxonsUK, Vikings and Normansso the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the scientific understanding of homosexuality, who threatened the unyielding and insular people. This book examines how several tenacious and heroic figures led beginning the Britons struggle for recognition and equality, leading to the Welsh against often overwhelming oddsmilestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445658437</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Hewitt1910593508|title=JosephApollo|author=Matt Fitch, 1917Chris Baker and Mike Collins|rating=3.5

|summary=During This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to the Moon landings and the autumn 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 1915 Edward Stanleythis, the Earl of Derby and Director General of military recruitment inaugurated authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the Derby Schemeblanks. Men of fighting age would be encouraged by door-to-door canvassers These shortcuts are the only downside to the book. If you'attest' that they would sign up for military service at ve ever read a comic book adaptation of a recruitment office within 48 hours. They would then film you will be categories according to marital status familiar with the slight feeling that there are scenes missing and be called up, with 14 days' notice, in an order in line with their household responsibilitiesthat dialogue has been trimmed. The idea was This is a sound one: married men with children only being called on if absolutely necessary. Lancastrian Joseph Blackburn chose to attest but then for him graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and many others, unforeseen results ensuedstill felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785898973</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=William Wright1786331047|title=A British Lion in ZululandThe Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family|author=Helen Rappaport

|summary= During The basic facts about the reign deaths of Queen VictoriaNicholas and Alexandra, southern Africa was a land some of opportunity. Fame and fortune was to be found which were deliberately obscured at the time for any brave soul willing to suffer the hardships and dangers the lands offeredvarious reasons, have long since been established. For the government last few months of Britain it was also their lives in Russia the source of major headaches. The balance between abundant wealth former Tsar and a native population that would not accept colonial rule created constant conflict. 'A British Lion in Zululand' is the story of the manTsarina, widely regarded, as the person who drew these conflicts with the Zulu tribe to a conclusion. Field Marshall Garnet Joseph Wolseley was a heroic their children and larger than life figure few remaining servants were held in Victorian Britain; howeverincreasingly squalid, even today his role in shaping the future of a continent is controversialhumiliating captivity. With the aid of extensive research To prevent them from a number of new sourcesbeing rescued, William Wright has defined in July 1918 the man and brought fresh insight to a neglected area of British colonial history. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445665484</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Xu Hongci and Erling Hoh (Translator)|title= No Wall Too High|rating= 4|genre= History|summary= It was one of the greatest prison breaks of revolutionary regime had them all time, during one of the worst totalitarian tragedies of the 20th Century. Xu Hongci was an ordinary medical student when he was incarcerated under Mao's regime shot and forced bayoneted to spend years of his youth death in some of China's most brutal labour camps. Three times he tried to escape. And three times he failed. But, determined, he eventually broke freecircumstances which, travelling once the length of China, across the Gobi desert, and into Mongolia.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846044960</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Steven Burgauer|title=The Night of The Eleventh Sun|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=The word 'Neanderthal' has become equated with people deemed to have a backward attitude and outlook. But what do we know of the original Neanderthals from over 200,000 years ago? Here American author [[:Category:Steven Burgauer|Steven Burgauer]] melds the knowledge of anthropologists, archaeologists and historians with the story of Strong Armsnews was confirmed beyond all doubt, his family and horrified their struggle to survive relatives in a very effective, and informative wayEurope.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419671545</amazonuk>