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|genre=HistoryBiography|summary=What shape do you assume Britain to be? If you merely go by the current map, you're holding yourself ransom by 'The world of the secessionists wanting devolution, and changes to unconscious is not the boundaries within Britainantagonist of political life, but doesn't its steadfast companion, the hidden place go beyond that outline on the page? Remember, it used or backdrop where any true revolution must begin…'' Women in Dark Times is Jacqueline Rose's homage to be connected to mainland Europecourageous women throughout history, and once we'd sort-particularly women of-settled into one kingdom on our shores [[Divorcedthe 21st, Beheaded, Died..20th and 19th centuries.: The History of Britain's Kings Her historical and Queens in Bite-Sized Chunks by Kevin Flude|the people in charge]] were also ruling over parts of France. And of course – the two-dimensional plan of the British Isles political backdrop is nowhere near the real story, for we have many coastal watersthus, we have airspaceexpansive, yet she navigates it with intelligence and we have a large subterranean territory. You can definitely throw away the imagined space of Britain, for the reality is far grander.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700002</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Suzannah Lipscomb|title= The King is Dead|rating= 5|genre= History|summary= Shortly before his death in January 1547, King Henry VIIIan acknowledgment that feminism's last will and lengthy mission is a testament was readto its successes, stamped and sealed. It has remained one of not its failures: ''the most intriguing and contested documents in British history. This book examines it from every angle, and analyses the background against the last days ongoing force of the Kingfeminism''s life and the events which followed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784081922</amazonuk>1804271713
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ian MortimerMary McCarthy|title= Human Race: 10 Centuries Memories of Change on Eartha Catholic Girlhood
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|genre= HistoryAutobiography|summary= We are Mary McCarthy describes herself as an astonishing species. Over ''amateur architect'', obsessively digging into the past millennium to piece together the broken mosaic of plagues and exploration, revolution and scientific discovery, women's rights and technological advances, human society has changed beyond recognitionher life. Best known for his She attributes her ''Time Travellerburning interest in the past's Guide'' history booksto her orphanhood, as she lacked any second-hand memories from her parents, Ian Mortimer here gives who died in the reader a whistle-stop tour through ten centuries1918 flu epidemic. This memoir chronicles her early years, beginning with her orphanhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she lived under the harsh guardianship of her late father''Human Race'' contains the lunar leaps s Irish Catholic parents and her abusive Uncle Myers and lightbulb moments thatAunt Margaret. Later, for better or worse, have sent humanity swerving down she moved to Seattle to live with her maternal grandparents—her grandmother being Jewish and her grandfather Presbyterian—who provided her with a path that no-one could have predicteddifferent kind of upbringing. The question here is which of the last ten centuries saw the greatest change in human history?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099593386</amazonuk>1804271659
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Catherine Hewitt1785633457|title= The Mistress Charging Around: Exploring the Edges of ParisEngland by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating= 45|genre= BiographyTravel|summary= Born into poverty, no-one could have guessed that the girl who would one day be known as Valtesse de la Bigne would have achieved greatnessClive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. This is As he neared his eightieth birthday the tale of her rise to wealth and power – starting in a dress shop as a thirteen year old, but fast becoming a courtesan who would be fought over by some idea of exploring the greatest men edges of her timeEngland in an electric car was not totally outrageous. A woman who kept an air of mystery about many details of her life, Catherine Hewitt nevertheless paints an incredible story around the gapsIn fact, and this proves to it should be both a full pleasant holiday for Clive and intriguing biographyhis wife, and a fascinating portrait of the time period. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848319266</amazonuk>Joan, shouldn't it?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mary BeardB09BLBP3P8|title= SPQR A History of Ancient RomeNeville Chamberlain's War: How Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940|author=Frederic Seager|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary=How do we know what really happened at any moment in Received wisdom and simplified narrative often lead to misconceptions about history? At best we make educated guesses based on (often conflicting) evidence. The most striking aspect of Mary Beard's new examination of Roman history One such is how far she goes to see all sides and all possible explanations of events. For example, were the emperors Nero and Caligula mad or simply scrubbing from the victims popular imagination of their successors' smear campaign? What's behind all that nonsense about the city of Rome being founded by twin boys suckled by wolves? This is a book that explodes some early days of World War II from 1939-40, known as the myths ''Phoney War''. We remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, war breaking out, and presents alternative answersChurchill coming in to save the day. Mary Beard analyses the evidence to shed new light Very little time is spent on how a small community grew to become an empire. Military force was importantthis period in cultural reflections and yet, but other threads as Frederic Seager argues in the weave (such as social mobility and the effect of extending citizenship to many this book, it was of vital significance in how the conquered) made the Roman experience uniquewar played out. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683807</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Despina Stratigakos3756228711|title=Hitler at HomeCDC: The happy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Hans Bodmer|rating=54
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|summary=''Please do not make Hitler look goodThe history of the development of IT could fill books of several hundred pages.'' Words to live by Author Hans Bodmer is quite right about that the author of this volume received from her mother, a Kefalonian who knew Nazi abuse when she saw it. Rest assured that He has chosen to tell us about the book does not do thatshort, but it certainly provides a much fresherexplosive, more eloquent and interesting look at certain aspects history of his lifethe Control Data Company, and introduces us to someone else from the Nazi times – Gerdy TroostCDC, who might as well be summarised as Hitlerfor whom he worked. It's interior designer. In picking apart the entire life of Troosta fascinating tale, the nature of her work and how the buildings and décor she surrounded Hitler told in became a part mixture 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 one of, if not the, best book of the yeartechnological summary and wry anecdote. The person who does come out with the laurels worn highest is our author.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>030018381X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Elizabeth NortonJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title= The Temptation Of Elizabeth TudorFritz and Kurt|rating= 4.5|genre= BiographyConfident Readers|summary= LifeWe start with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, or rather survivaland their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in Tudor England was 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 at a precarious businessvocational school. Being close Kurt has to make sure the crown was lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything but nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a guarantee light switch. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of safetyhaving a national vote to keep the Nazis out, invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the fate of two round-ups of King Henry VIII's Queen's amply demonstratedJews. His second daughter Elizabeth led a charmed life These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz and went his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to reign as Queen Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for over forty years, but she too had some narrow escapes when her liberty if not her very existence was under threat.the adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784081728</amazonuk>024156574X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alison MaloneyJohn Henry Phillips|title=Life Below Stairs: True Lives of Edwardian ServantsThe Search
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|summary=Life Archaeology cannot be child's play, when you're scraping in Edwardian times 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 currently a popular subjectcase of the latter, thanks in no small part as our author promises to ''that'' period drama currently showing its final series on ITVlocate the topic of the titular search. And he really hasn''Life Below Stairs'' examines t made it easy for himself – the search area is a wide one, the subject in greater detailtarget might not exist any more – oh, looking at documents and memoirs from it's underwater, when he cannot dive. Latching on to a particular D-Day veteran through helping the time heroic old man's visit back to France, our author has promised to discover what life was really like for those in service. We learn about find the strict hierarchy in the household landing craft that delivered him to Normandy, and the duties expected of each individual. We see how much each member of staff that he was paid and how workers were hired (and in many cases, fired) lucky to survive when it sank from their positionsbeneath him. Welcome The secondary aim is to erect a slice of Edwardian lifememorial to everyone else aboard, served up with a delicious mix the vast majority of period illustrations and newspaper clippingswhom perished. Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782434356</amazonuk>1472146182
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lucy AdlingtonB09F4CTKJR|title= Stitches in Time: The Story of the Clothes We Wear Flights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer|rating=4.5|genre= HistoryHistorical Fiction|summary=It''Stitches in Time'' is a lively history of clothing. Riffling through s the wardrobes later stages of years gone by, costume historian Lucy Adlington reveals World War I and the stories underneath the clothes we wear in this tour of United States has just entered the history of fashion, ranging from ancient times to the present dayconflict. With beautiful illustrations and full colour photographs, ''Stitches in Time'' Petrol Petronus is a reminder of how the way we dress is inextricably bound young American who has signed up with considerations of aesthetics, sex, gender, class and lifestyle – and offers joined the reader 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the chance first US Aero Squadron to appreciate be trained in Canada, the extraordinary qualities of first to be attached to the clothing we wear, RAF and the rich history it first to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in active combat. But before that can happen, Petrol has ledto master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847947263</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jeffrey James0578761718|title= Edward IV: Glorious Son The Inspiring History of Yorka Special Relationship|author=Nancy Carver|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= Medieval England's own game of thrones, The Wars church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the RosesCity of London from at least 1181, when it was at the centre of a turbulent agefirst mentioned in records. Sadly, In retrospect much of the history original church was destroyed in the Great Fire of medieval England, between London in 1666. It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the Norman conquest fire and then survived for centuries until World War II, when it was again ruined by bombs during the advent of the Tudors, seems to have been a chronicle of instability often verging on and sometimes erupting into rebellion or civil warBlitz. The fifteenth-century conflicts between But that wasn't the houses end of Lancaster and Yorkits story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, lasting intermittently for thirty years, were more protracted and even more brutal than the rest, with several fierce battles and sudden changes of fortune for stones from the two rival familieschurch's walls were transported to Fulton, both descended from King Edward IIIMissouri. The riseThere, fall and rise again in the grounds of King Edward IV Westminster College, the church was rebuilt and today serves as a constant theme of the warsmemorial to Winston Churchill.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445646218</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Dan Jones1784385166|title= Realm DividedThe Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Year in the Life Material History of Plantagenet EnglandNazi Germany|author=Roger Moorhouse|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= 1215 has gone down in history as What is the year first image that comes to mind when you think of Magna Carta, the result 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 King Johnthe Third Reich's increasingly discontented barons attempts to exert control over their wayward fascist regime in all its iniquity. But some objects and stubborn monarch. John had succeeded images from that time may be less familiar to the throne of England in 1199, at the end of an often turbulent centuryyou. His fatherIn this short volume, Henry II, had succeeded in restoring the authority of the crown after almost twenty years of civil war between the supporters of two rival claimants Roger Moorhouse has attempted to illustrate the kingdom. He had inherited a challenging set on both sides of the Channel, and within four years had been driven out of most period of the French ones, notably the duchy Third Reich through one hundred of Normandy. Posterity would bestow on him the unflattering nicknames 'John Softsword' and later 'John Lackland'its material artefacts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781858829</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Keith JefferyLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title=1916Tiananmen 1989: A Global HistoryOur Shattered Hopes|rating= 4.5|genre= HistoryGraphic Novels|summary=1916 I never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was a pivotal year playing out – someone in modern historythe second half of their teens has other priorities, you know. It witnessed I certainly didn't know of the Easter Rising in Dublin, weeks of protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and the battles birth of Verdun and the SommeTank Man image, I didn't know how the area had long been a venue for political protest, and I didn't know more than a spit about the election of Woodrow Wilson as American Presidentpeople involved on either side. These, and several other events described in this This book is practically flawless in detail, were later seen as crucial staging points in giving a general browser's context for the course whole season of the First World Warprotests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408834308</amazonuk>1684056993
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Gary Cox0648684806|title= Deep ThoughtClara Colby: 42 Fantastic Quotes that Define Philosophy The International Suffragist|author=John Holliday|rating= 4.5|genre= HistoryBiography|summary= Who really knows what 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'Cogito ergo sum'' means? Yest allowed to sail with her parents and three brothers. Instead, you may know that Descartes said itshe remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and saw that it translates as 'I thinkshe received a good education, therefore I am'both in and out of school. She was the only child in the household and her childhood was glorious. By contrast, but what her family had become pioneer farmers in the mid-west of the United States and life was it the French philosopher hard, as Clara was trying to say about human existence find out when he said this most quotable she and definitive phrase? Andher grandparents eventually went to join the family. Clara would only know her mother for a few months: she was married for fifteen years, for that matterhad ten pregnancies, ''where'' did he say it? Was it seven surviving children and died in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the seventeenth century or the eighteenth? If these are the sort of question that keep you awake at nighteldest girl, then Gary Cox's ''Deep Thought: 42 Fantastic Quotes that Define Philosophy'' will be a welcome addition to your libraryheavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakening. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472567269</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kevin Flude1783784350|title=Divorced, Beheaded, Died...This Golden Fleece: The History of A Journey Through Britain's Kings and Queens in Bite-Sized ChunksKnitted History|author=Esther Rutter|rating=4.5
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|summary=History livesIt was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, writing to people she'd never met and preparing spreadsheets. The job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. Proof of that sweeping statement can January was going to be had in this book, a time for making changes and in the fact she decided that while it only reached she would travel the grand old age length and breadth of sixthe British Isles with occasional forays abroad, discovering and telling the story of wool's history and how it has had the dust brushed off it made and has been reprinted – and while changed the present royal incumbent it ends its main narrative with has not changed, other things havelandscape. This has quietly been updated to include She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - '' a free-range child on the reburial of Richard III in Leicester, farm'' - and seems learned to have been rereleased at a perfectly apposite timespin, as only the week before I write these words the Queen has surpassed all those who came before knit and weave from her as our longest serving ruler. Such details may be trivia to some – especially those of us of a more royalist bent – mother and important facts to othersher mother's friend. The perfect balance of that coupling – trivia and detail – is what makes this book so worthwhileThis was in her blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434631</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emma Marriott1789017977|title= I Used to Know ThatRonnie and Hilda's Romance: HistoryTowards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams|rating= 4|genre= Politics and SocietyHistory|summary= I've picked up a few things over Ronnie Williams was the years, most notably from English language text books while TEFLing abroad son of Thomas Henry Williams (thereknown as Harry) and Ethel Wall. There's nothing like an exciting lesson on Guy Fawkes some doubt as to have a classroom of Mexicans wondering why we so love whether or not they were ever married or even Harry's birthdate: he claimed to celebrate a terrorist attack that didn't happen). But I have gaps, of this I am surebeen born in 1863, but he was already many years older than Ethel and I thought to get a basic understanding of, he might well, the basics that we all should know, have shaved a quick read of this book wouldn't hurtfew years off his age.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434488</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Bruce Hugman|title= Out of Bounds|rating= 4|genre= Autobiography|summary= Author Bruce Hugman has been For a school teacher, probation officer, smallholder, university lecturer, PR Professional, is an international communications consultant and teacher while the family was quite well-to-do but disaster struck in healthcare and patient safety. Having nursed two partners through the final stages of AIDS, 1929 Depression and survived the 2004 Asian Tsunamifive-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a very different lifestyle. A varied One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to be well-turned-out and interesting this would stay with him throughout his life then – and it is . He joined the first thirty years of it that Hugman chooses to concentrate on herearmy at eighteen in 1942. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1508423709</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher Dell1980891117|title=MythologyG Engleheart Pinxit 1805: An Illustrated Journey Into Our Imagined WorldsA year in the life of George Engleheart|author=John Webley
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|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>
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{{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
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|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>
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{{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
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|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>
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{{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)
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|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Francis O'Gorman0008294011|title= Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= ‘’Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History’’ begins with How to Lose a familiar scene for anyone who experiences that persistent feeling of fretful panicCountry: lying awake in the early hours, unable to switch off, thoughts turning over in your head. If this common situation hits home, ‘This book’, its author Francis O’Gorman writes, ‘is for you.’|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144115129X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=David Loades|title=The Seymours of Wolf Hall: A Tudor Family Story|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= In medieval times Wolf Hall or Wolfhall (or even Wulfhall), the long-since-demolished family seat in Wiltshire, was the home of the Seymour family. Their greatest triumph, followed by a speedy decline and fall, was part of Tudor history, and is thus the focus of this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445634953</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Philip Parker|title= The Northmen’s Fury: A History of the Viking World|rating= 4|genre= History|summary= In AD793, the Vikings arrived on our shores. Bringing death and destruction, they sacked the island monastery of Lindisfarne. Bloodthirsty warriors, they soon descended on northern Europe. However, for all their reputation as terrible and brutal thugs, the Vikings possessed a culture that was far more sophisticated than they are often given credit for, producing art, literature and long lasting kingdoms. Philip Parker describes how these people came 7 Steps from Democracy to rule over much of Europe for nearly three centuries, in this fascinating and intriguing read. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099551845</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDictatorship|author=Simon Wilcox|title=Mudlark River: Down the Thames with a Victorian Map Ece Temelkuran
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|genre=TravelHistory|summary=Do you think finding A little while ago a 19th century map friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in years to come would inspire you to walk be discussed by A level history students when faced with the entire length of question ''Discuss the Thames? Because factors which led to...'' I agreed thatshe was right and wasn's t certain whether it was a good or bad thing that we didn't know what Simon Wilcox didall 'this' was leading to. I think therenow that I do know. We are in danger of losing democracy and whilst it's something impossibly romantic about thata flawed system I can't think of a better one, donparticularly as the 'benevolent dictator't you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993016308</amazonuk>is as rare as hen's teeth.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Williams1788037812|title=The Trains Now DepartedFraternity of the Estranged: Sixteen Excursions into the Lost Delights of Britain's RailwaysThe Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson|rating=3.5
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|summary=Beaching wasn't the only buffer to the fate of various train lines of our land – it could have been sheer managerial incompetenceOriginally passed in 1885, the birth of the package air holidaylaw that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, or even roadrestrictions on same-builders' bloody-minded spite that served to bring down sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the end nature of the linehomosexuality appeared. YesThey were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as the fact you can easily pepper your words with idiom from heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the world margins of trains shows how important they have been over society and studying homosexuality was common on the last two hundred yearsEuropean Continent, and this book is geared around that as wellbut barely talked about in the UK, if happily cliché-free. Our author takes us on a journey around various sites where train lines and elements so the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the scientific understanding of what once rode proudly upon them have been homosexuality, and gone. So grab a platform ticket (RIP) beginning the struggle for recognition and see what class equality, leading to the milestone legalisation of journey we're travelling same-sex relationships in1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848094353</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John George Freeman and Ronnie Scott (editor)1910593508|title=Three Men Apollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and a BradshawMike Collins|rating=45|genre=TravelHistory|summary=This book incredible graphic novel is quite a love letter to the Moon landings and the passion for the very time machinesubject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins. This is a story we know well and because of that some of its own history is needed in summary. A year or two agothis, our presenter Shaun Sewell was buying some private documents from the descendants of John George Freeman, to complete a set of illustrated travel journals he'd met with when risking authors take a punt on the first few at auction. He was intent on getting them published since finding them, and seemed to be the first person with narrative shortcuts knowing that desire since they were first written we can fill in the 1870sblanks. Back then they were well-written, educative and entertaining looks at the early days of These shortcuts are the travel industry, when for example piers were novel(ty) ways for the rail companies to justify sending people only downside to the ends book. If you've ever read a comic book adaptation of a film you will be familiar with the country where previously slight feeling that there had are scenes missing and that dialogue has been little for them to dotrimmed. Here then This is railwayana, travel a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and social history, all between two coversstill felt too short. So even if this doesn't find the perfectly huge audience of some books, it will certainly raise interest in many households.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847947441</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Steven Nightingale1786331047|title= GranadaThe Race to Save the Romanovs: The Light of AndaluciaTruth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family|author=Helen Rappaport|rating=4 5|genre= History |summary= Don't expect (as I did) a ''Parrot-in-The basic facts about the-Pepper-Tree'' type collection deaths of comedic mishaps Nicholas and tales about the joys -- and perils -- Alexandra, some of joining a new community. This is, more than anything, a history book, albeit one in which were deliberately obscured at the writer's deep love of his adopted home (Granada and, more specifically, the Albayzín, the district he lives in)time for various reasons, his family and his neighbours makes every sentence sparklehave long since been established. Even better, it's a history book that assumes no knowledge on For the part last few months of the reader. Steven Nightingale covers centuries of events their lives in Spain, describing them with clarity and in a typically engaging style. He starts with Russia the Moorish occupation of Spain in 711 former Tsar and ends post-Civil War. Despite its vast chronological spanTsarina, the book is more than a dry recounting of events their children and dates. Yesfew remaining servants were held in increasingly squalid, that information is there, as befits any good history bookhumiliating captivity. But Steven Nightingale's focus is more on the effects of these historical eventsTo prevent them from being rescued, and the achievements of the times, particularly the ongoing legacy of the Moorish occupation. He writes in detail about Arabic poetry, July 1918 the timeless nature of love, developments revolutionary regime had them all shot and bayoneted to death in mathscircumstances which, science and once the artsnews was confirmed beyond all doubt, geometry horrified their relatives in tiling, and much moreEurope.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1857886313</amazonuk>
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