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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Lyndal RoperMary McCarthy|title= Martin Luther:Renegade and ProphetMemories of a Catholic Girlhood|rating= 54|genre= HistoryAutobiography|summary= Exactly five centuries ago in October 2017Mary McCarthy describes herself as an ''amateur architect'', Martin Luther nailed his ninety-five theses against obsessively digging into the sale of indulgences past to piece together the door broken mosaic of her life. She attributes her ''burning interest in the All Saintspast'' Church to her orphanhood, as she lacked any second-hand memories from her parents, who died in Wittenberg. The ensuing maelstrom ripped the Christian church asunder and changed the course of history1918 flu epidemic. But how was a provincial professor in a cassock able to set the Reformation in motionThis memoir chronicles her early years, despite papal and imperial authority being ranged against him? In a biography which was ten years beginning with her orphanhood in the makingMinneapolis, Lyndal Roper strips away mythology to illuminate the facts underneath (for startersMinnesota, it is highly unlikely that Luther actually nailed where she lived under the ninety-five theses to the door). She provides a thoughtful analysis harsh guardianship of the forces which drove the evangelical preacher her late father's Irish Catholic parents and her abusive Uncle Myers and convincingly explains his contradictions – whyAunt Margaret. Later, after decades of monastic observance did he marry a nun she moved to Seattle to live with her maternal grandparents—her grandmother being Jewish and develop her grandfather Presbyterian—who provided her with a love different kind of German beer and wine? upbringing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784703443</amazonuk>1804271659
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= A T Williams1785633457|title= A Passing FuryCharging Around: Searching for Justice at Exploring the End Edges of World War IIEngland by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating= 4.5|genre= HistoryTravel|summary= In ''A Passing Fury,'' we follow an Orwell Prize-winning law academic's journey through Germany as he pursues the legal Clive Wilkinson has a history of the trials waged travelling by the British, and to some extent other Allied forces, against the newly-fallen Nazi regime. This is unconventional means with a deeply personal account, that reads very much like a travelogue in placespreference for slow travel. Williams is affected at every turn by harrowingly familiar accounts As he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of life in exploring the concentration camp system, such as those edges of the esteemed Italian writer and academic Primo Levi, who features throughout the bookEngland in an electric car was not totally outrageous. More striking to the reader, howeverIn fact, are the often-forgotten atrocities Williams describes that failed to make it should be a mark on our collective memorypleasant holiday for Clive and his wife, such as the Cap Arcona tragedyJoan, in which some 7,000 concentration camp internees were killed in a British air raid. Horrors such as these, which largely go unremembered, raise many questions, chief among them, was justice servedshouldn't it? Williams pursues answers to this question throughout his investigation, which is just shy of 500 pages long.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593262</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David GrannB09BLBP3P8|title= Killers of the Flower MoonNeville Chamberlain's War: How Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940|author=Frederic Seager|rating= 4.5|genre= True CrimeHistory|summary=Killers of Received wisdom and simplified narrative often lead to misconceptions about history. One such is the Flower Moon tells scrubbing from the story popular imagination of the Osage tribeearly days of World War II from 1939-40, forced to settle in known as the rocky, uninhabitable wilds of Oklahoma in what would become Osage County''Phoney War''. In an unexpected turn of fortuneWe remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, prospectors struck oilwar breaking out, instantly catapulting the Osage into unimaginable wealth and fortune making them some of the richest people Churchill coming in to save the worldday. Then members of the tribe start to die, slowly at first of apparently natural causes then in increasingly violent ways. Investigation into the matter stalls and Very little time is beset by incompetence and a general lack of interest spent on this period in the fate of the Osage until the FBI becomes involved cultural reflections and draws together a team of battle scarredyet, unorthodox agents led by former Texas Ranger Tom White. As pressure on White increases, from both the FBI and the increasingly angry Osageas Frederic Seager argues in this book, it was of vital significance in how the race to find the truth becomes increasingly difficult, with more twists and double crosses than any murder mysterywar played out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857209027</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Feiling3756228711|title=CDC: The Island that Disappearedhappy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Hans Bodmer|rating=54
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|summary= ''The Island that Disappeared' tells the history of the, largely now forgotten, island development of IT could fill books of Providence in the Caribbeanseveral hundred pages. It '' Author Hans Bodmer is a fascinating and compelling account of what might have been but ultimately is the story of greed, ambition and human naturequite right about that. In 1630 on board He has chosen to tell us about the Seaflowershort, a sister ship to the Mayflowerbut explosive, a small group history of English puritans sailed to the island to establish a new colony. They were convinced in their belief that the British Empire would rise in the Central America and not in New England. The hopes that they carried was soon destroyed by failing crops, quarrels and rebellions and many turned to piracy and the plundering of Spanish treasure ships. Within ten yearsControl Data Company, the Spanish retaliated and invaded the islandCDC, wiping the colony outfor whom he worked. Providence became a footnote of history until it was resettled over a hundred years later. The book tells the islandIt's story from its early puritan beginnings to the present and through its telling it provides a fascinating microcosm tale, told in a mixture of the world we live in todaytechnological summary and wry anecdote.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911184040</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Twigs WayJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Allotments (Britain's Heritage Series)Fritz and Kurt
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|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers|summary=Allotments came about originally from We start with the enclosure pair of landbrothers Fritz and Kurt, primarily for sheep pasture. Fearing that the enclosures and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would leave peasants unable want to feed themselvesdo – kicking things around the empty market place, Elizabeth I issued an act requiring all new cottages helping the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to have four acres of ground, something which the synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Kurt has been honoured more by history than by Elizabethto make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours's contemporarieseach Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. It was But this is the first time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a national vote to keep the Nazis out, invite them in a long line of legislation with that aim open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in mind Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the round- which largely failed ups of Jews. These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to achieve their aimshear word of an evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445665700</amazonuk>024156574X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Peter RexJohn Henry Phillips|title= Harold: The King Who Fell at HastingsSearch|rating= 4.5
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|summary= Harold Archaeology 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. This book is in a case of the latter, as our author promises to locate the topic of the unenviable position titular search. And he really hasn't made it easy for being remembered as himself – the monarch who was defeated and killed in search area is a wide one, the Norman conquesttarget might not exist any more – oh, and almost nothing elseit's underwater, when he cannot dive. He does not even merit Latching on to a passing mention in particular D-Day veteran through helping the renowned 1930s spoof English history, '1066 and all Thatheroic old man's visit back to France, which no doubt our author has promised to find the landing craft that delivered him to Normandy, and that he was lucky to survive when it sank from beneath him in their category of 'Unmemorable Kings'. This book The secondary aim is thus inevitably to erect a history rather than a biography memorial to everyone else aboard, the vast majority of someone about whom undisputed facts are rather lackingperished. Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144565721X</amazonuk>1472146182
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Zuehlke and Claude St AubinB09F4CTKJR|title=The Loxleys and ConfederationFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer|rating=34.5|genre=Graphic NovelsHistorical Fiction|summary=There is a huge hole in my history knowledge where North America is concerned. Slowly, from an opening of sheer ignorance, having never studied it whatsoever at school, IIt've got a small grip on things like s the Civil later stages of World War, I and the foundations of United States has just entered the USA and a few other thingsconflict. But that means nothing as far as this book Petrol Petronus is concerned, for that huge hole is Canadaa young American who has signed up and joined the 17 Aero Squadron. No, I didn't have an inkling about how it This company was trying the first US Aero Squadron to unify, just as the American Civil War was be trained in full pelt just across the border. I didn't know what was there before Canada, if you see what I mean. The story does have some things in common with that of their southern neighbours – European occupancy being slowly turned into a list of states as we know them now, slowly spreading into the heart of first to be attached to the continent with RAF and the help of first to be sent into the railways etc; native 'Indians' being 'in the way'; past trading agreements to either maintain or try skies to improve on; and so on – but of course it also had fight the British vs French issueGermans in active combat. But did you know how an American President getting shot at before that can happen, Petrol has to master flying the theatre had a bearing on the story? Or the Irish? Like I said, a huge hole…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992150892</amazonuk>notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lynn Knight0578761718|title= The Button BoxInspiring History of a Special Relationship|author=Nancy Carver|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= Buttons are The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the underdogs City of London from at least 1181, when it was first mentioned in records. Sadly, the original church was destroyed in the clothing world: dismissed as functional elements Great Fire of clothing, falling into London in 1666. It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the same dustbin category with zips fire and shoe laces, they tend to be seen as necessary then survived for keeping clothes oncenturies until World War II, rather than contributors to stylewhen it was again ruined by bombs during the Blitz. But Lynn Knight is set to prove that wasn't the opposite is true. We think nothing end of lacing discussions about clothing and feminism with headscarvesits story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, the stones from the church's walls were transported to Fulton, bikinisMissouri. There, and underweight models – and buttons deserve a place on in the pedestal grounds of gender discussionWestminster College, toothe church was rebuilt and today serves as a memorial to Winston Churchill.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593092</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sarah Fraser1784385166|title= The Prince Who Would Be KingThird Reich in 100 Objects: The Life and Death A Material History of Henry StuartNazi Germany|author=Roger Moorhouse|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography History|summary= Henry Stuart, eldest child What is the first image that comes to mind when you think of King James VI and I, was not the only eldest son 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 a monarch who did not live long enough to succeed to the throneThird Reich's fascist regime in all its iniquity. The list also included Arthur (son of Henry VII) But some objects and Albert Victor (Edward VII)images from that time may be less familiar to you. Of In this short volume, Roger Moorhouse has attempted to illustrate the three, Henry undoubtedly showed period of the most promiseThird Reich through one hundred of its material artefacts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007548087</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paul FlynnLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title= Good As YouTiananmen 1989: From Prejudice to Pride - 30 Years of Gay BritainOur Shattered Hopes|rating= 4.5|genre= History Graphic Novels|summary=The last 30 years have seen a tidal wave I never really followed the events of change sweep the country Tiananmen Square with regards to how gay people are perceived and accepted. In 1984, much attention when it was playing out – someone in the pulsing electronic beats second half of their teens has other priorities, you know. I certainly didn''Smalltown Boy'' became an anthem to unite Gay Men, but just a month later, a virus called HIV would be identified, spreading a climate t know of the weeks of panic protests and fear across hunger strikes from the students before the nation, massacre and marginalising a community who were already ostracised. 30 years later thoughthe birth of the Tank Man image, I didn't know how the area had long road to gay equality would reach been a climax with the legalistion of gay marriage. Journalist Paul Flynn charts this remarkable journey via the cultural milestones that affected this change - with interviews with such protagonists as Kylie, Russell T Davies, Will Youngvenue for political protest, Holly Johnson and Lord Chris SmithI didn't know more than a spit about the people involved on either side. This book is the story of Britainpractically flawless in giving a general browser's brothers, sons, cousins, fathers and husbands. Of public outrage and personal loss, context for the (not always legal) highs and desperate lows, and the final collective victory as Gay Men were finally recognised to be as Good As Youwhole season of protests back in 1989. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785032925</amazonuk>1684056993
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Miles Russell0648684806|title= Arthur and the Kings of BritainClara Colby: The Historical Truth Behind the MythsInternational Suffragist|author=John Holliday|rating= 4.5|genre= HistoryBiography|summary= As the author The path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the Historia Regum Britanniae (History of USA. At the Kings time she was just three-years-old but because of Britain)some childhood ailment, written 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 1136, Geoffrey and out of Monmouth is commonly recognized as one of the first British historiansschool. His book told – or is supposed to have told - She was the story of only child in the British monarchy during the Dark Ageshousehold and her childhood was glorious. By contrast, from her family had become pioneer farmers in the arrival mid-west of the Trojan BrutusUnited States and life was hard, grandson of Aeneas, up as Clara was to the seventh century AD find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to join the Anglo-Saxons had taken control of Britainfamily. Being virtually the Clara would only work of its kind at the timeknow her mother for a few months: she was married for fifteen years, it proved very influentialhad ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and became well-known throughout western Europe as one of died in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the great works of medieval literature as the first retelling of the story of King Arthureldest girl, Lear a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Cymbeline. Shakespeare Wisconsin was forever in his debt with regard to the two lattera rude awakening. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445662744</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mark Aylwin Thomas1783784350|title= Blades of GrassThis Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter|rating= 4.5|genre= BiographyHistory|summary= Any book that has me It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in tears at the end has been worth my timeher office job, writing to people she'd never met and preparing spreadsheets. Any book that has me hoping it will end differently to the way I know it must is worth the readingThe job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. Any book January was going to be a time for making changes and she decided that convinces me that maybe there is still hope in she would travel the world – that for all length and breadth of the mistakes made thus farBritish Isles with occasional forays abroad, still being made right now, there is a common humanity which ultimately, eventually, must do some good – that is worth discovering and telling the writing story of wool's history and the reading how it had made and changed the timelandscape. Blades of Grass is one such book. ItShe'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - ''s a forgotten storyfree-range child on the farm'' - and learned to spin, an unknown story to most peopleknit and weave from her mother and her mother's friend. It is one that should be told – and reflected uponThis was in her blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524676969</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Andrew Cook1789017977|title= The Murder of the Romanovs|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= The fate of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Alexandra Ronnie 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 Hilda's Romance: Towards a noted so-called surviving Grand Duchess. Even so, as Andrew Cook notes, straight New Life 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>}}{{newreviewWorld War II|author= Sarah Bakewell|title= At The Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being and Apricot CocktailsWendy Williams
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|genre= Politics and SocietyHistory|summary= You know that old saying about judging books by their cover? Ronnie Williams was the son of Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wall. Ignore it! I have found that by judging a book by its cover and getting it completely wrong is a great way There's some doubt as to find yourself committed whether or not they were ever married or even Harry's birthdate: he claimed to reading a book that you'd never have picked been born in 1863, but he was already many years older than Ethel and he might well have shaved a million few years off his age. For a while the family was quite well-to-do but disaster struck in the 1929 Depression and yet, somehow, being amazingly glad you five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a very different lifestyle. One thing he didinherit from his father was his need to be well-turned-out and this would stay with him throughout his life. He joined the army at eighteen in 1942.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554887</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Helen Hollick1980891117|title= PiratesG Engleheart Pinxit 1805: Truth and TaleA year in the life of George Engleheart|author=John Webley|rating= 4.5|genre= HistoryArt|summary=The eighteenth century lived in terror of the tramps of the seas – pirates. Pirates have fascinated people ever since. It George Engleheart was a harsh life for those who went 'on the account', constantly overshadowed by the threat one of death – through violence, illness, shipwreck, or the hangman's noose. The lure leading portrait miniaturists of goldGeorgian London, with a career lasting from the excitement of the chase and the freedom that life aboard a pirate ship offered were judged by some 1770s to be worth the riskRegency era. Helen Hollick explores both He was also one of the fiction and fact most prolific, painting nearly 5,000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of the Golden Age them being of piracy, and there are some surprises in store for those who think they know their Barbary Corsair from their boucanierKing George III). Everyone has heard Throughout most of Captain Morgan, but who recognises that time he carefully recorded the name names of the aristocratic Frenchman Daniel Montbars? He killed so many Spaniards he was known as 'The Exterminator'. The fictional world each of pirateshis clients, represented in novels and movies, subsequently transcribed them into what is different from realityreferred to as his fee book. What draws readers and viewers to these notorious hyenas of the high seas? What are the facts behind the fantasy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445652153</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Timothy Venning1789016304|title= KingmakersWar and Love: How Power A family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in England Was Won and Lost on the Welsh Frontieroccupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin|rating= 3.5|genre= History|summary= Between the Norman conquest Melanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and the Tudor periodwas entranced by what she discovered, Britain often seemed to be on the verge particularly in ''The Diary of civil warAnn Frank'' but then realised that her own family's stories were equally fascinating. The Anglo-Welsh borders A hundred and seven thousand Jews were a perpetual source of troubledeported from the city during the war years, kept at bay but only by five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a country with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the Germans might reach the Marcher lords appointed by city were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, that the King of England Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to guard escalate in the way that it did, but initial protests melted away as the Welsh Marchesorganisers became more circumspect. It's an atrocity on a vast scale but made up of tens of thousands of individual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445659409</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Nigel Linge and Andy Sutton1908745819|title= The British PhoneboxSurfacing|author=Kathleen Jamie|rating= 4.5|genre= History |summary= 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 book. That's a rare experience. People who are sensitive to hearing a book calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, I was told why. The mobile phone must be one blurb speaks of the most usedauthor considering ''an older, must-have accessories less tethered sense of herself.'' Older. Less tethered. That's not a bad description of where I am. Add to that my love of the modern agenatural world, of those aspects of the one device you cannot escape from in publicpoetic and lyrical that are about style not form, and substance most of all, about connection. Some of us with (relatively) long memories must look back Of course, this book had my name on the age when the bright red phonebox reigned supreme as a long time agoit. It was written for me. It would have found its way to me eventually. I am pleased to have it fall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445663082</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Wall0857058320|title=Warriors Lord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and Kings: The 1500-Year Battle for Celtic BritainAnne McLean (translator)|rating= 4.5
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|summary= For several centuries, much of ''Lord Of All the ancient and medieval history of Britain was one forged in war as Dead'' is a journey to uncover the Celtic peoples took a stand against invasion author's lost ancestor's life and oppressiondeath. First it was Cercas is searching for the Romans, then meaning behind his great uncle's death in the SaxonsSpanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, Vikings and NormansCercas' great uncle, is the figure who threatened looms large over the unyielding and insular peoplebook. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. This The question at the centre of this book examines how several tenacious and heroic figures led the Britons and is whether it is possible for his great uncle to be a hero whilst having fought for the Welsh against often overwhelming oddswrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445658437</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Hewitt0008294011|title=Joseph, 1917How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran|rating=34.5
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|summary=During the autumn of 1915 Edward Stanley, the Earl of Derby and Director General of military recruitment inaugurated the Derby Scheme. Men of fighting age A little while ago a friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in years to come would be encouraged discussed by door-to-door canvassers A level history students when faced with the question ''Discuss the factors which led to ...'attest' I agreed that they would sign up for military service at she was right and wasn't certain whether it was a recruitment office within 48 hoursgood or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was leading to. They would then be categories according to marital status I think now that I do know. We are in danger of losing democracy and be called up, with 14 dayswhilst it's a flawed system I can' notice, in an order in line with their household responsibilities. The idea was t think of a sound better one: married men with children only being called on if absolutely necessary. Lancastrian Joseph Blackburn chose to attest but then for him and many others, unforeseen results ensuedparticularly as the 'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785898973</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=William Wright1788037812|title=A British Lion The Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in ZululandEngland, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson
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|summary= During Originally passed in 1885, the reign of Queen Victorialaw that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, southern Africa was a land of opportunityrestrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Fame Between 1891 and fortune was to be found for any brave soul willing to suffer 1908, three books on the hardships nature of homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and dangers John Addington Symonds, as well as the lands offeredheterosexual Havelock Ellis. For Exploring the government margins of Britain it society and studying homosexuality was also common on the source of major headaches. The balance between abundant wealth and a native population that would not accept colonial rule created constant conflict. 'A British Lion European Continent, but barely talked about in Zululand' is the story of the manUK, widely regarded, as so the person who drew publications of these conflicts with the Zulu tribe men were hugely significant – contributing to a conclusion. Field Marshall Garnet Joseph Wolseley was a heroic and larger than life figure in Victorian Britain; however, even today his role in shaping the future of a continent is controversial. With the aid of extensive research from a number scientific understanding of new sourceshomosexuality, William Wright has defined and beginning the man struggle for recognition and brought fresh insight equality, leading to a neglected area the milestone legalisation of British colonial historysame-sex relationships in 1967. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445665484</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|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 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 and forced to spend years of his youth 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 free, travelling the length of China, across the Gobi desert, and into Mongolia.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846044960</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|authorisbn=Steven Burgauer1910593508|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 Arms, his family and their struggle to survive in a very effective, and informative way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419671545</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewApollo|author= Anne Glyn-Jones|title= Morse Code Wrens of Station X|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= Bletchley Park is probably now the least secret of all the secret ops that went on during World War II. I for one am pleased about that: technology has moved on so far that there can't be anything that happened back then on the communications front that is worth continuing to shroud in mystery. With most of the participants either departed or at least in the departure lounge, the more recollections we can still gather the better. What remained secret far longer however, is the work of the telegraphers that served Station X: those posted to the Y-stations. There are few of them left to tell their talesMatt Fitch, so I applaud those who finally saw fit (a) to release them from their life-long bonds of secrecy Chris Baker and (b) encourage them to write it down, tell us what it was really like.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845409086</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=G A Jones|title=The Cruise of Naromis: August in the Baltic 1939|rating=4|genre=Travel|summary=There's brave, and there is brave. I may well have been born in a coastal county but certainly would baulk at the idea of setting out to sea with four colleagues in a 37'-long boat. Boats to me are like planes – the bigger the better, and the safer I feel as a result. But luckily for the purpose of this book, George Jones was born with a much different pair of sea-legs to mine, and took to the waters of the English Channel, the North Sea and beyond in ''Naromis'' with brio. But – and this is where the further definition of bravery comes in – he did it in August 1939, knowing full well that he would be sailing full tilt into the teeth of war.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1899262334</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= John Ashdown-Hill|title= The Private Life of Edward IV|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary= Edward IV is currently a popular subject for biographers. All credit is therefore due to Dr Ashdown-Hill, one of the foremost of current Yorkist-era historians, for looking at the King from a fresh angle – that of his romantic involvements.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445652455</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author= Pamela Sambrook|title= The Servants' Story: Managing a Great Country House|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= With so many recent books on aristocratic families and their homes, one which looks at the lives of their servants is to be welcomed. Written with the help of a vast archive, this presents a vivid picture of those in service at Trentham, the Staffordshire home of the Leveson-Gower family, the Dukes of Sutherland, at one stage said to be the richest non-royal family in Britain. Its insights into the ups and downs of life below stairs, and the mini-family histories involved, make for an excellent read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445654202</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Stephen Porter|title=Everyday Life in Tudor London: Life in the City of Thomas Cromwell, William Shakespeare & Anne BoleynMike Collins|rating=4.5
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|summary=The Tudor period in England marked This incredible graphic novel is a transition in so many ways from love letter to the Moon landings and the passion for the medieval period to a new erasubject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and so it Mike Collins. This is only right a story we know well and because of this, the authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that somebody should at last have examined what effect that should have had on our capital citywe can fill in the blanks. After These shortcuts are the instability of only downside to the Wars book. If you've ever read a comic book adaptation of the Roses, a period of consolidation set in and London was at last established as film you will be familiar with the seat of royalty slight feeling that there are scenes missing and government, that dialogue has been trimmed. This is a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as well as the centre of cultural life long and commercial activitystill felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445645866</amazonuk>
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|summary= The sinking basic facts about the deaths of Nicholas and Alexandra, some of which were deliberately obscured at the Titanic in 1912 was the ocean disaster against which all subsequent shipwrecks time for various reasons, have come to be comparedlong since been established. Yet some forty years earlier, For the people last few months of mid-Victorian Britain their lives in Russia the former Tsar and overseas Tsarina, their children and few remaining servants were horrified by another loss at sea which at held in increasingly squalid, humiliating captivity. To prevent them from being rescued, in July 1918 the time revolutionary regime had a similar impact. In January 1866 SS London, a large new luxury liner en route them all shot and bayoneted to Australiadeath in circumstances which, went down shortly after leaving England, with around 250 people dead, maybe more (once the exact figure will never be known)news was confirmed beyond all doubt, and only three survivorshorrified their relatives in Europe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144565654X</amazonuk>
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