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[[Category:New Reviews|History]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julian Holland1785633457|title=Railways (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)Charging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating=35

|summary=How and when did Laurel and Hardy replace the Duke Clive Wilkinson has a history of York (George VI)? They reopened the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway when peacetime resumed, at whose launch the latter had officiated before the Wartravelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. What's As he neared his eightieth birthday the worst that can happen when you travel internationally and arrive on a London goods train with no further destination documents? Well, if you're an unidentifiable Peruvian mummy you can get buried as an unknown corpse before idea of exploring the invoice turns up to prove you were wanted edges of England in Belgiuman electric car was not totally outrageous. After so many miles and so much dramaIn fact, it's no surprise odd facts should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and fun trivia derive from our countryhis wife, Joan, shouldn's trains. This book is designed to be an ideal source of quick articles and fun mini-essays for use in the smallest room.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910821004</amazonuk>t it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Paddy HayesB09BLBP3P8|title= Queen of SpiesNeville Chamberlain's War: How Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940|author=Frederic Seager|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= Paddy Hayes has created an extensive account Received wisdom and simplified narrative often lead to misconceptions about history. One such is the scrubbing from the popular imagination of the life and career early days of an extraordinary female spyWorld War II from 1939-40, known as the ''Phoney War''. Daphne Park has faced sexismWe remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, brutality and betrayal. She has bravely stood against terrorwar breaking out, charmed diplomats and navigated her way through Churchill coming in to save the then alien Soviet Russiaday. Hers Very little time is an incredible lifespent on this period in cultural reflections and yet, one that brings as Frederic Seager argues in this book, it was of vital significance in how the nail-biting and seat teetering that we expect from a spy storywar played out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715650432</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joanne Parker3756228711|title=Britannia ObscuraCDC: Mapping BritainThe happy years with a spectacular IT 's Hidden LandscapesPhenomena'|author=Hans Bodmer

|summary=What shape do you assume Britain to be? If you merely go by ''The history of the current map, youdevelopment of IT could fill books of several hundred pages.''re holding yourself ransom by the secessionists wanting devolution, and changes  Author Hans Bodmer is quite right about that. He has chosen to tell us about the boundaries within Britainshort, but doesn't the place go beyond that outline on the page? Rememberexplosive, it used to be connected to mainland Europe, and once we'd sort-history of-settled into one kingdom on our shores [[Divorcedthe Control Data Company, BeheadedCDC, Diedfor whom he worked...: The History of BritainIt's Kings and Queens a fascinating tale, told in Bite-Sized Chunks by Kevin Flude|the people in charge]] were also ruling over parts of France. And a mixture of course – the two-dimensional plan of the British Isles is nowhere near the real story, for we have many coastal waters, we have airspace, technological summary and we have a large subterranean territory. You can definitely throw away the imagined space of Britain, for the reality is far granderwry anecdote.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700002</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Suzannah LipscombJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title= The King is DeadFritz and Kurt|rating= 54|genre= HistoryConfident Readers|summary= Shortly before his death We start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in January 15471930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the neighbours, King Henry VIIIbeing dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at 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 last will and testament was read, stamped and sealed. It has remained one instead of having a national vote to keep the most intriguing and contested documents Nazis out, invite them in British historywith open arms. This book examines it from every angle''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, and analyses as did all the background against round-ups of Jews. These in their turn leave the last days younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the King's life US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the events which followedstone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784081922</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ian MortimerJohn Henry Phillips|title= Human Race: 10 Centuries of Change on EarthThe Search|rating=45|genre= History|summary= We are an astonishing speciesArchaeology cannot be child's play, when you're scraping in the dirt looking to find what you can find, often knowing there should be something there but not always confident what. Archaeology must be a fair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thing. Over This book is a case of the latter, as our author promises to locate the past millennium topic of plagues and explorationthe titular search. And he really hasn't made it easy for himself – the search area is a wide one, the target might not exist any more – oh, revolution and scientific discovery, womenit's rights and technological advancesunderwater, human society has changed beyond recognitionwhen he cannot dive. Best known for his ''Time Traveller's Guide'' history books, Ian Mortimer here gives the reader Latching on to a whistleparticular D-stop tour Day veteran through ten centuries. helping the heroic old man''Human Race'' contains s visit back to France, our author has promised to find the lunar leaps and lightbulb moments landing craft thatdelivered him to Normandy, for better or worse, have sent humanity swerving down a path and that no-one could have predictedhe was lucky to survive when it sank from beneath him. The question here secondary aim is which to erect a memorial to everyone else aboard, the vast majority of the last ten centuries saw the greatest change whom perished. Who else would make such promises to someone in human historytheir nineties?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099593386</amazonuk>1472146182

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Catherine HewittB09F4CTKJR|title= The Mistress of ParisFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer|rating= 4.5|genre= BiographyHistorical Fiction|summary= Born into poverty, no-one could have guessed that It's the later stages of World War I and the United States has just entered the girl conflict. Petrol Petronus is a young American who would one day be known as Valtesse de la Bigne would have achieved greatnesshas signed up and joined the 17 Aero Squadron. This is company was the tale of her rise first US Aero Squadron to wealth and power – starting be trained in a dress shop as a thirteen year oldCanada, but fast becoming a courtesan who would the first to be fought over by some of attached to the greatest men of her time. A woman who kept an air of mystery about many details of her life, Catherine Hewitt nevertheless paints an incredible story around RAF and the gaps, and this proves first to be both a full and intriguing biographysent into the skies to fight the Germans in active combat. But before that can happen, and a fascinating portrait of Petrol has to master flying the time periodnotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848319266</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mary Beard0578761718|title= SPQR A The Inspiring History of Ancient Romea Special Relationship|author=Nancy Carver|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary=How do we know what really happened The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the City of London from at any moment least 1181, when it was first mentioned in history? At best we make educated guesses based on (often conflicting) evidencerecords. Sadly, The most striking aspect the original church was destroyed in the Great Fire of Mary Beard's new examination of Roman history is how far she goes to see all sides and all possible explanations of eventsLondon in 1666. For example, were It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the emperors Nero fire and Caligula mad or simply then survived for centuries until World War II, when it was again ruined by bombs during the victims of their successors' smear campaign? WhatBlitz. But that wasn's behind all that nonsense about t the city end of Rome being founded by twin boys suckled by wolves? This is its story: after a book that explodes some of phenomenal fundraising effort, the myths and presents alternative answers. Mary Beard analyses stones from the evidence church's walls were transported to shed new light on how a small community grew to become an empireFulton, Missouri. Military force was importantThere, but other threads in the weave (such grounds of Westminster College, the church was rebuilt and today serves as social mobility and the effect of extending citizenship a memorial to many of the conquered) made the Roman experience uniqueWinston Churchill. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683807</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Despina Stratigakos1784385166|title=Hitler at HomeThe Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History of Nazi Germany|author=Roger Moorhouse

|summary=''Please do not make What is the first image that comes to mind when you think of the Third Reich? Hitler look good.'' Words ? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The gate to live by that the author a concentration camp? None of this volume received from her mother, a Kefalonian who knew Nazi abuse when she saw it. Rest assured that the book does not do that, these are comfortable images but it certainly provides a much fresher, more eloquent and interesting look at certain aspects they are emblematic of his life, the Third Reich's fascist regime in all its iniquity. But some objects and introduces us to someone else images from the Nazi times – Gerdy Troost, who might as well that time may be summarised as Hitler's interior designerless familiar to you. In picking apart the entire life of Troostthis short volume, Roger Moorhouse has attempted to illustrate the nature period of her work and how the buildings and décor she surrounded Hitler in became a part of his propaganda, we get a refreshingly new yet authoritative book, that for those with an interest in this side of our recent history will easily be considered Third Reich through one hundred of, if not the, best book of the year. The person who does come out with the laurels worn highest is our authorits material artefacts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>030018381X</amazonuk> 

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Elizabeth NortonLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title= The Temptation Of Elizabeth TudorTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes|rating= 4.5|genre= BiographyGraphic Novels|summary= LifeI 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, or rather survival, in Tudor England was a precarious businessyou know. Being close to I certainly didn't know of the crown was anything but a guarantee weeks of safety, as protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and the fate birth of two of King Henry VIIIthe Tank Man image, I didn's Queent know how the area had long been a venue for political protest, and I didn's amply demonstratedt know more than a spit about the people involved on either side. His second daughter Elizabeth led This book is practically flawless in giving a charmed life and went on to reign as Queen general browser's context for over forty years, but she too had some narrow escapes when her liberty if not her very existence was under threatthe whole season of protests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784081728</amazonuk>1684056993

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0648684806|title=Clara Colby: The International Suffragist|author=Alison MaloneyJohn Holliday|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=The path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the USA. 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 good education, both in and out of school. She was the only child in the household and her childhood was glorious. By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the mid-west of the United States and life was hard, as Clara was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to join the family. Clara would only know her mother for a few months: she was married for fifteen years, had ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and died in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the eldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1783784350|title=Life Below StairsThis Golden Fleece: True Lives of Edwardian ServantsA Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter

|summary=Life It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in Edwardian times is currently a popular subjecther office job, thanks in no small part writing to people she''d never met and preparing spreadsheets. The 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 thatshe would travel the length and breadth of the British Isles with occasional forays abroad, discovering and telling the story of wool's history and how it had made and changed the landscape. She' period drama currently showing its final series d grown up on ITV. a sheep farm in Suffolk - ''Life Below Stairsa free-range child on the farm'' examines the subject in greater detail- and learned to spin, looking at documents knit and memoirs weave from the time to discover what life was really like for those in service. We learn about the strict hierarchy in the household her mother and the duties expected of each individualher mother's friend. We see how much each member of staff This was paid and how workers were hired (and in many cases, fired) from their positionsher blood. Welcome to a slice of Edwardian life, served up with a delicious mix of period illustrations and newspaper clippings|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434356</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lucy Adlington1789017977|title= Stitches in TimeRonnie and Hilda's Romance: The Story of the Clothes We Wear Towards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams

|summary=History lives. Proof of that sweeping statement can be had in this book, and in Ronnie Williams was the fact that while it only reached the grand old age son of six, it has had the dust brushed off it Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and has been reprinted – and while the present royal incumbent it ends its main narrative with has Ethel Wall. There's some doubt as to whether or not changed, other things they were ever married or even Harry's birthdate: he claimed to have. This has quietly been updated to include the reburial of Richard III born in Leicester1863, but he was already many years older than Ethel and seems to he might well have been rereleased at shaved a perfectly apposite time, as only the week before I write these words the Queen has surpassed all those who came before her as our longest serving rulerfew years off his age. Such details may be trivia For a while the family was quite well-to some – especially those of us of a more royalist bent – -do but disaster struck in the 1929 Depression and important facts five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to othersa very different lifestyle. The perfect balance of that coupling – trivia One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to be well-turned-out and detail – is what makes this book so worthwhilewould stay with him throughout his life. He joined the army at eighteen in 1942.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434631</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emma Marriott1980891117|title= I Used to Know ThatG Engleheart Pinxit 1805: History|rating= 4|genre= Politics and Society|summary= I've picked up a few things over the years, most notably from English language text books while TEFLing abroad (there's nothing like an exciting lesson on Guy Fawkes to have a classroom of Mexicans wondering why we so love to celebrate a terrorist attack that didn't happen). But I have gaps, of this I am sure, and I thought to get a basic understanding of, well, the basics that we all should know, a quick read of this book wouldn't hurt.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434488</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Bruce Hugman|title= Out of Bounds|rating= 4|genre= Autobiography|summary= Author Bruce Hugman has been a school teacher, probation officer, smallholder, university lecturer, PR Professional, is an international communications consultant and teacher A year in healthcare and patient safety. Having nursed two partners through the final stages of AIDS, and survived the 2004 Asian Tsunami. A varied and interesting life then – and it is the first thirty years of it that Hugman chooses to concentrate on here. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1508423709</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewGeorge Engleheart|author=Christopher Dell|title=Mythology: An Illustrated Journey Into Our Imagined WorldsJohn Webley

|genre=Spirituality and ReligionArt|summary=What does George Engleheart was one of the leading portrait miniaturists of Georgian London, with a rainbow mean career lasting from the 1770s to you? How would you explain the creation Regency era. He was also one of the world if you had no science as suchmost prolific, painting nearly 5, or the changing 000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of the seasons? What other kinds them being of natures – chaotic trickery, evil personae or even the characteristics King George III). Throughout most of goats – people your world? And why is it that time he carefully recorded the answers man and woman have collectively formed to such questions have been so similar across the oceans and across the centuries? This highly pictorial volume looks at the mythologies that formed those answersnames of each of his clients, and locks on subsequently transcribed them into what is referred to a multitude of subjects – blood, music, godly activity – to show us what has followedas his fee book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500291519</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Caroline Moorehead1789016304|title=Village War and Love: A family's testament of Secretsanguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin|rating=3.5

|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 ''Village The Diary of SecretsAnn Frank'' is an account of resistance (with a small but then realised that her own family'r') s stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the war years, but only five thousand survived and rescue Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a series of small villages scattered across the Vivarais-Lignon plateau in Vichy Francecountry with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. Residents of these villages harboured a number of Most peoplebelieved 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, many of them children, many of them Jews, seeking that the Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to avoid deportation to concentration camps, at great personal risk. There have been other accounts of this chapter escalate in French history andthe way that it did, of course, a great many books about Vichy France in generalbut initial protests melted away as the organisers became more circumspect. However, It''Village s an atrocity on a vast scale but made up of tens of Secrets'' is, perhaps, the most detailed, much thousands of it based on primary sources (interviews with both rescuers and the rescued, or their families), backed up by extensive documentary researchindividual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009955464X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Finn and Petra Couvee1908745819|title=The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden BookSurfacing|author=Kathleen Jamie

|genre=BiographyHistory|summary=One of the many things to come out of Sometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book, they tell you ''this incredibly clear and readable book is that one has your name on it''. Mostly we Britstake them at their word, for all our literary heritageor not, have got nothing but rarely do we ask them why they thought so unless it turns out that we didn't like an equivalent the book. That's a rare experience. People who are sensitive to Boris Pasternakhearing a book calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, I was told why. He or she would have to sell like Rowling, regularly capture the enjoyment and spirit The blurb speaks of the nation a la Danny Boyleauthor considering ''s Olympics ceremoniesan older, and at the same time have the cultural heft less tethered sense of Larkin, Rushdie, Graham Greene and more combinedherself. '' Someone connected with choosing recipients Older. Less tethered. That's not a bad description of the Nobel Prize declare him here where I am. Add to be that my love of the Soviet TS Eliotnatural world, but that's nothing like. So of those aspects of the reader probably has to stretch herself to see someone so well-respected poetic and well-loved for his verselyrical that are about style not form, who spent twelve years and more on a hugesubstance most of all, society-defining novelabout connection. Of course, only this book had my name on it. It was written for the country me. It would have found its way to nix every plan me eventually. I am pleased to get have it publishedfall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581345</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ingrid von Oelhafen and Tim Tate0857058320|title=Hitler's Forgotten Children: My Life Inside Lord Of All the LebensbornDead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)

|genre=AutobiographyHistory|summary=You see that name that credits ''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a journey to uncover the author of this book? Forget it, it's not accuratelost ancestor's life and death. (I don't mean Tim TateCercas is searching for the meaning behind his great uncle's workmanlike, journalistic ghost writing, more of which laterdeath in the Spanish Civil War.) The narrator of this book did change her name by deed poll to something like Ingrid von Oelhafen some time agoManuel Mena, but not exactly how she wanted. She grew up as Ingrid von OelhafenCercas' great uncle, although that was is the name of her father, figure who was so desperately absent, in being looms large over a generation older than his wife, with whom he was separatedthe book. She might well have had her motherHe died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's maiden name if her parents had divorced – and indeed her mother did move forces. Cercas ruminates on to have a second family, and was terribly distant herself – young Ingrid would plead and plead why his uncle fought for her company while in a remote children's home, and a lot of family secrets were not passed down at opportune timesthis dictator. Oh, and legally, due to what little documentation was to be seen, such as immunisation record cards, Ingrid was not Ingrid The question at all, but Erika Matko. Through the centre of this book, we find she was not blood-kin with her brother, her step-brother was is whether it is possible for his great uncle to die, she was not blood-kin with her sister, but was her brother's, – oh, and even in this day and age you can still find be a changeling foundling. Such incredibly convoluted family trees are the fault of hero whilst having fought for the Lebensbornwrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783961201</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Francis O'Gorman0008294011|title= WorryingHow to Lose a Country: A Literary and Cultural HistoryThe 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= ‘’Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History’’ begins with little while ago a familiar scene for anyone who experiences friend asked me if I thought that persistent feeling of fretful panic: lying awake we were living through what in years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the question ''Discuss the early hours, unable factors which led to switch off, thoughts turning over in your head. ..'' If 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 common situation hits home' 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, ‘This book’, its author Francis O’Gorman writes, ‘is for youparticularly as the 'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth.’|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144115129X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Loades1788037812|title=The Seymours Fraternity of Wolf Hallthe Estranged: A Tudor Family StoryThe Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= In medieval times Wolf Hall or Wolfhall (or even Wulfhall)Originally passed in 1885, the longlaw that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on same-since-demolished family seat in Wiltshiresex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, was three books on the home nature of the Seymour familyhomosexuality appeared. Their greatest triumph, followed They were written by a speedy decline two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and fallJohn Addington Symonds, as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the margins of society and studying homosexuality was part common on the European Continent, but barely talked about in the UK, so the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the scientific understanding of Tudor historyhomosexuality, and is thus beginning the struggle for recognition and equality, leading to the focus milestone legalisation of this booksame-sex relationships in 1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445634953</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Philip Parker1910593508|title= The Northmen’s Fury: A History of the Viking WorldApollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins|rating= 45|genre= History|summary= In AD793, This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to the Vikings arrived on our shores. Bringing death Moon landings and destruction, they sacked the island monastery of Lindisfarne. Bloodthirsty warriorspassion for the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, they soon descended on northern EuropeChris Baker and Mike Collins. However, for all their reputation as terrible This is a story we know well and brutal thugsbecause of this, the Vikings possessed authors take a culture few narrative shortcuts knowing that was far more sophisticated than they we can fill in the blanks. These shortcuts are often given credit for, producing art, literature 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 long lasting kingdomsthat dialogue has been trimmed. Philip Parker describes how these people came to rule over much of Europe for nearly This is a graphic novel that could easily have been three centuries, in this fascinating times as long and intriguing readstill felt too short. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099551845</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Wilcox1786331047|title=Mudlark RiverThe Race to Save the Romanovs: Down The Truth Behind the Thames with a Victorian Map |rating=4.5|genre=Travel|summary=Do you think finding a 19th century map would inspire you Secret Plans to walk the entire length of the Thames? Because that's what Simon Wilcox did. I think thereRescue Russia's something impossibly romantic about that, don't you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993016308</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewImperial Family|author=Michael Williams|title=The Trains Now Departed: Sixteen Excursions into the Lost Delights of Britain's RailwaysHelen Rappaport|rating=3.5

|summary=Beaching wasn't The basic facts about the only buffer to the fate deaths of various train lines of our land – it could have been sheer managerial incompetenceNicholas and Alexandra, the birth some of which were deliberately obscured at the package air holidaytime for various reasons, or even road-builders' bloody-minded spite that served to bring down the end of the line. Yes, the fact you can easily pepper your words with idiom from the world of trains shows how important they have long since been over established. For the last two hundred years, and this book is geared around that as well, if happily cliché-free. Our author takes us on a journey around various sites where train lines and elements of what once rode proudly upon them have been and gone. So grab a platform ticket (RIP) and see what class few months of journey we're travelling their lives in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848094353</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=John George Freeman Russia the former Tsar and Ronnie Scott (editor)|title=Three Men and a Bradshaw|rating=4|genre=Travel|summary=This book is quite the very time machineTsarina, their children and because of that some of its own history is needed few remaining servants were held in summaryincreasingly squalid, humiliating captivity. A year or two ago, our presenter Shaun Sewell was buying some private documents To prevent them from the descendants of John George Freemanbeing rescued, to complete a set of illustrated travel journals he'd met with when risking a punt on in July 1918 the first few at auction. He was intent on getting revolutionary regime had them published since finding them, all shot and seemed bayoneted to be the first person with that desire since they were first written death in the 1870s. Back then they were well-writtencircumstances which, educative and entertaining looks at once the early days of the travel industry, when for example piers were novel(ty) ways for the rail companies to justify sending people to the ends of the country where previously there had been little for them to do. Here then is railwayana, travel and social history, news was confirmed beyond all between two covers. So even if this doesn't find the perfectly huge audience of some booksdoubt, it will certainly raise interest horrified their relatives in many householdsEurope.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847947441</amazonuk>