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[[Category:New Reviews|History]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= David GrannEdward W Said|title= Killers Representations of the Flower MoonIntellectual |rating= 4.5|genre= True CrimePolitics and Society|summary=Killers Edward Said's ''Representations of the Flower Moon tells Intellectual'' is less a strict theory of what intellectuals are and more a passionate argument for what they should be. Said clearly rejects the story comfortable image of the Osage tribeintellectual as a detached expert speaking only to other specialists. Instead, forced to settle in he insists on the rockyintellectual as a public figure, uninhabitable wilds of Oklahoma in what would become Osage County. In an unexpected turn of fortuneoften awkward, prospectors struck oilabrasive, instantly catapulting the Osage into unimaginable wealth and fortune making them some unpopular, who speaks truth to power even when it is inconvenient or risky.|isbn=1804272248}}{{Frontpage|author=Jacqueline Rose|title=Women in Dark Times|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=''The world of the richest people in unconscious is not the world. Then members antagonist of political life, but its steadfast companion, the tribe start hidden place or backdrop where any true revolution must begin…'' Women in Dark Times is Jacqueline Rose's homage to diecourageous women throughout history, slowly at first particularly women of apparently natural causes then in increasingly violent waysthe 21st, 20th and 19th centuries. Investigation into the matter stalls Her historical and political backdrop is beset by incompetence and a general lack of interest in the fate of the Osage until the FBI becomes involved and draws together a team of battle scarred, unorthodox agents led by former Texas Ranger Tom White. As pressure on White increasesthus, expansive, from both the FBI yet she navigates it with intelligence and the increasingly angry Osage, the race an acknowledgment that feminism's lengthy mission is a testament to find the truth becomes increasingly difficultits successes, with more twists and double crosses than any murder mysterynot its failures: ''the ongoing force of feminism''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857209027</amazonuk>1804271713

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom FeilingMary McCarthy|title=Memories of a Catholic Girlhood|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=Mary McCarthy describes herself as an ''amateur architect'', obsessively digging into the past to piece together the broken mosaic of her life. She attributes her ''burning interest in the past'' to her orphanhood, as she lacked any second-hand memories from her parents, who died in the 1918 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's Irish Catholic parents and her abusive Uncle Myers and Aunt Margaret. Later, she moved to Seattle to live with her maternal grandparents—her grandmother being Jewish and her grandfather Presbyterian—who provided her with a different kind of upbringing.|isbn=1804271659}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1785633457|title=The Island that DisappearedCharging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson

|summary= 'The Island that Disappeared' tells the Received wisdom and simplified narrative often lead to misconceptions about history of . One such is the, largely now forgotten, island of Providence in scrubbing from the Caribbean. It is a fascinating and compelling account popular imagination of what might have been but ultimately is the story early days of greedWorld War II from 1939-40, ambition and human natureknown as the ''Phoney War''. In 1630 on board the SeaflowerWe remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, a sister ship to the Mayflowerwar breaking out, a small group of English puritans sailed and Churchill coming in to save the island to establish a new colonyday. They were convinced Very little time is spent on this period in their belief that the British Empire would rise in the Central America cultural reflections and not yet, as Frederic Seager argues 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 years, the Spanish retaliated and invaded the islandthis book, wiping the colony out. Providence became a footnote of history until it was resettled over a hundred years later. The book tells the island's story from its early puritan beginnings to the present and through its telling it provides a fascinating microcosm of vital significance in how the world we live in todaywar played out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911184040</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Twigs Way3756228711|title=Allotments (BritainCDC: The happy years with a spectacular IT 's Heritage Series)Phenomena'|author=Hans Bodmer

|summary= Harold ''The history of the development of IT could fill books of several hundred pages.'' Author Hans Bodmer is in the unenviable position for being remembered as the monarch who was defeated and killed in the Norman conquest, and almost nothing elsequite right about that. He does not even merit a passing mention in has chosen to tell us about the renowned 1930s spoof English short, but explosive, historyof the Control Data Company, CDC, for whom he worked. It'1066 and all That's a fascinating tale, which no doubt has him told in their category of 'Unmemorable Kings'. This book is thus inevitably a history rather than a biography mixture of someone about whom undisputed facts are rather lackingtechnological summary and wry anecdote. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>144565721X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark Zuehlke Jeremy Dronfield and Claude St AubinDavid Ziggy Greene|title=The Loxleys Fritz and ConfederationKurt|rating=3.54|genre=Graphic NovelsConfident Readers|summary=There is a huge hole in my history knowledge where North America is concerned. Slowly, from an opening We start with the pair of sheer ignorancebrothers Fritz and Kurt, having never studied it whatsoever at schooland their muckers, I've got a small grip on doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things like around the Civil Warempty market place, helping the foundations of neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the USA synagogue choir and at a few other thingsvocational school. But that means nothing 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 far mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. But this book is concerned, for that huge hole the time just before the Austrian leader is Canada. Nogoing to cave to Hitler's will, I didn't have an inkling about how it was trying and instead of having a national vote to unifykeep the Nazis out, just as the American Civil War was invite them in full pelt just across the borderwith open arms. I didn't know what was there before Canada'Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, if you see what I meanas did all the round-ups of Jews. The story does have some things These 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 turn leave the heart of the continent younger Kurt at home with the help his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of the railways etc; native 'Indians' being 'in the way'; past trading agreements an evacuation to either maintain Britain or try the US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to improve each other, packed off on; the same train to Buchenwald and so on – but of course it also had the British vs French issuestone quarry there. But did you know And us wondering how an American President getting shot at the theatre had a bearing on titular event for the story? Or the Irish? Like I said, a huge hole…adult variant of all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0992150892</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Lynn KnightJohn Henry Phillips|title= The Button BoxSearch|rating= 45|genre= History|summary= Buttons are Archaeology cannot be child's play, when you're scraping in the underdogs 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 a case of the clothing world: dismissed latter, as functional elements our author promises to locate the topic of clothingthe titular search. And he really hasn't made it easy for himself – the search area is a wide one, falling into the same dustbin category with zips target might not exist any more – oh, and shoe lacesit's underwater, they tend when he cannot dive. Latching on to be seen as necessary for keeping clothes ona particular D-Day veteran through helping the heroic old man's visit back to France, our author has promised to find the landing craft that delivered him to Normandy, rather than contributors and that he was lucky to stylesurvive when it sank from beneath him. But Lynn Knight The secondary aim is set to prove that the opposite is true. We think nothing of lacing discussions about clothing and feminism with headscarveserect a memorial to everyone else aboard, bikinis, and underweight models – and buttons deserve a place on the pedestal vast majority of gender discussion, toowhom perished.Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099593092</amazonuk>1472146182

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sarah FraserB09F4CTKJR|title= The Prince Who Would Be King: The Life and Death of Henry StuartFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography Historical Fiction|summary= Henry Stuart, eldest child It's the later stages of King James VI World War I and I, was not the only eldest son of United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is a monarch young American who did not live long enough has signed up and joined the 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the first US Aero Squadron to succeed be trained in Canada, the first to be attached to the throne. The list also included Arthur (son of Henry VII) RAF and Albert Victor (Edward VII)the first to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in active combat. Of the threeBut before that can happen, Henry undoubtedly showed Petrol has to master flying the most promisenotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007548087</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Paul Flynn0578761718|title= Good As You: From Prejudice to Pride - 30 Years The Inspiring History of Gay Britaina Special Relationship|author=Nancy Carver|rating= 4.5|genre= History |summary=The last 30 years have seen a tidal wave church of change sweep St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the country with regards to how gay people are perceived and acceptedCity of London from at least 1181, when it was first mentioned in records. In 1984Sadly, the original church was destroyed in the pulsing electronic beats Great Fire of ''Smalltown Boy'' became an anthem to unite Gay Men, but just a month later, London in 1666. It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a virus called HIV would be identified, spreading a climate of panic and fear across design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the nation, fire and marginalising a community who were already ostracised. 30 years later thoughthen survived for centuries until World War II, when it was again ruined by bombs during the long road to gay equality would reach a climax with Blitz. But that wasn't the legalistion end of gay marriage. Journalist Paul Flynn charts this remarkable journey via its story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, the cultural milestones that affected this change - with interviews with such protagonists as Kylie, Russell T Davies, Will Young, Holly Johnson and Lord Chris Smith. This is stones from the story of Britainchurch's brotherswalls were transported to Fulton, sons, cousins, fathers and husbandsMissouri. Of public outrage and personal lossThere, in the (not always legal) highs and desperate lowsgrounds of Westminster College, the church was rebuilt and the final collective victory today serves as Gay Men were finally recognised a memorial to be as Good As YouWinston Churchill. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785032925</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Miles Russell1784385166|title= Arthur and the Kings The Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History of Britain: The Historical Truth Behind the MythsNazi Germany|author=Roger Moorhouse|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= As the author of the Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain), written in 1136, Geoffrey of Monmouth What is commonly recognized as one of the first British historians. His book told – or is supposed image that comes to have told - the story mind when you think of the British monarchy during the Dark Ages, from the arrival Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The gate to a concentration camp? None of the Trojan Brutus, grandson these are comfortable images but they are emblematic of Aeneas, up to the seventh century AD when the Anglo-Saxons had taken control of BritainThird Reich's fascist regime in all its iniquity. Being virtually the only work of its kind at the But some objects and images from that timemay be less familiar to you. In this short volume, it proved very influential, and became well-known throughout western Europe as one of Roger Moorhouse has attempted to illustrate the great works period of medieval literature as the first retelling Third Reich through one hundred of the story of King Arthur, Lear and Cymbelineits material artefacts. Shakespeare was forever in his debt with regard to the two latter. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445662744</amazonuk> 

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mark Aylwin ThomasLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title= Blades of GrassTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes|rating= 4.5|genre= BiographyGraphic Novels|summary= Any book that has me in tears at I never really followed the end has been worth my time. Any book that has me hoping events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it will end differently to the way I know it must is worth the reading. Any book that convinces me that maybe there is still hope was playing out – someone in the world – that for all the mistakes made thus farsecond half of their teens has other priorities, still being made right now, there is a common humanity which ultimately, eventually, must do some good – that is worth the writing and the reading and the timeyou know. Blades of Grass is one such book. ItI certainly didn's a forgotten story, an unknown story to most people. It is one that should be told – and reflected upon.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524676969</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Andrew Cook|title= The Murder t know of the Romanovs|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= The fate weeks of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Alexandra protests 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 hunger strikes from the last few years, students before the advance of forensic science, DNA testing massacre and the precise location birth of the bodies have allowed for confirmation of Tank Man image, I didn't know how the exact truth and area had long been a dismissal of claims by a noted so-called surviving Grand Duchess. Even sovenue for political protest, as Andrew Cook notes, straight after the deaths of the imperial family and I didn'there would begin t know more than a ninety-year battle between science and superstition which spit about the people involved on either side. This book is not over yetpractically flawless in giving a general browser's context for the whole season of protests back in 1989. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445666278</amazonuk>1684056993

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sarah Bakewell0648684806|title= At Clara Colby: The Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being and Apricot CocktailsInternational Suffragist|author=John Holliday

|genre= Politics and SocietyBiography|summary= You know that 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 saying about judging books by their cover? but because of some childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to sail with her parents and three brothers. Ignore it! I have found Instead, she remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and saw that by judging she received a book by its cover good education, both in and out of school. She was the only child in the household and getting it completely wrong is a great way 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 yourself committed out when she and her grandparents eventually went to reading join the family. Clara would only know her mother for a book that you'd never have picked 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 million years heavy burden would fall on Clara and yet, somehow, being amazingly glad you didWisconsin was a rude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554887</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Helen Hollick1783784350|title= PiratesThis Golden Fleece: Truth and TaleA Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter|rating= 45|genre= History|summary=The eighteenth century lived It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in terror of the tramps of the seas – piratesher office job, writing to people she'd never met and preparing spreadsheets. Pirates have fascinated people ever since The job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. It January was going to be a harsh life time for those who went 'on making changes and she decided that she would travel the length and breadth of the account'British Isles with occasional forays abroad, constantly overshadowed by discovering and telling the threat story of death – through violence, illness, shipwreck, or the hangmanwool's noose. The lure of gold, the excitement of the chase history and how it had made and changed the freedom that life aboard landscape. She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - '' a pirate ship offered were judged by some to be worth free-range child on the risk. Helen Hollick explores both the fiction farm'' - and fact of the Golden Age of piracylearned to spin, knit and there are some surprises in store for those who think they know their Barbary Corsair weave from their boucanierher mother and her mother's friend. Everyone has heard of Captain Morgan, but who recognises the name of the aristocratic Frenchman Daniel Montbars? He killed so many Spaniards he This was known as 'The Exterminator'. The fictional world of pirates, represented in novels and movies, is different from realityher blood. What draws readers and viewers to these notorious hyenas of the high seas? What are the facts behind the fantasy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445652153</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Timothy Venning1789017977|title= KingmakersRonnie and Hilda's Romance: How Power in England Was Won and Lost on the Welsh FrontierTowards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams|rating= 3.54|genre= History|summary= Between Ronnie Williams was the Norman conquest son of Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and Ethel Wall. There's some doubt as to whether or not they were ever married or even Harry's birthdate: he claimed to have been born in 1863, but he was already many years older than Ethel and he might well have shaved a few years off his age. For a while the Tudor period, Britain often seemed family was quite well-to be on -do but disaster struck in the verge of civil war. The Anglo1929 Depression and five-year-Welsh borders were old Ronnie had to adjust to a perpetual source of trouble, kept at bay only by the Marcher lords appointed by the King of England very different lifestyle. One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to guard be well-turned-out and this would stay with him throughout his life. He joined the Welsh Marchesarmy at eighteen in 1942.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445659409</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Nigel Linge and Andy Sutton1980891117|title= The British PhoneboxG Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the life of George Engleheart|author=John Webley|rating= 4.5|genre= History Art|summary= The mobile phone must be George Engleheart was one of the most usedleading portrait miniaturists of Georgian London, must-have accessories of with a career lasting from the modern age, 1770s to the Regency era. He was also one device you cannot escape from in public. Some of us with the most prolific, painting nearly 5,000 miniatures altogether (relativelyover twenty of them being of King George III) long memories must look back on . Throughout most of that time he carefully recorded the age when the bright red phonebox reigned supreme names of each of his clients, and subsequently transcribed them into what is referred to as a long time agohis fee book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445663082</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Wall1789016304|title=Warriors War and KingsLove: The 1500-Year Battle for Celtic BritainA family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin|rating= 4.5

|summary= For several centuriesMelanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and was entranced by what she discovered, much particularly in ''The Diary of Ann Frank'' but then realised that her own family's stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the ancient city during the war years, but only five thousand survived and medieval history of Britain was one forged Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in war as the Celtic peoples took a stand against invasion and oppressioncountry with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. First it was Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the Germans might reach the Romanscity were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, then that the Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in the Saxonsway that it did, Vikings and Normans, who threatened but initial protests melted away as the unyielding and insular peopleorganisers became more circumspect. This book examines how several tenacious and heroic figures led the Britons and the Welsh against often overwhelming odds It's an atrocity on a vast scale but made up of tens of thousands of individual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445658437</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Hewitt1908745819|title=Joseph, 1917|rating=3.5|genre=History|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 would be encouraged by door-to-door canvassers to 'attest' that they would sign up for military service at a recruitment office within 48 hours. They would then be categories according to marital status and be called up, with 14 days' notice, in an order in line with their household responsibilities. The idea was a sound 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 ensued.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785898973</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSurfacing|author=William Wright|title=A British Lion in ZululandKathleen Jamie

|summary= During the reign of Queen VictoriaSometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book, southern Africa was a land of opportunitythey tell you ''this one has your name on it''. Fame and fortune was to be found for any brave soul willing to suffer the hardships and dangers the lands offered. For the government of Britain Mostly we take them at their word, or not, but rarely do we ask them why they thought so unless it was also turns out that we didn't like the source of major headachesbook. The balance between abundant wealth and That's a native population that would not accept colonial rule created constant conflictrare experience. 'A British Lion in Zululand' is the story of the man, widely regarded, as the person People who drew these conflicts with the Zulu tribe are sensitive to hearing a conclusionbook calling your name, rarely get it wrong. Field Marshall Garnet Joseph Wolseley In this case, I was a heroic and larger than life figure in Victorian Britain; however, even today his role in shaping the future of a continent is controversialtold why. With the aid of extensive research from a number The blurb speaks of new sources, William Wright has defined the man and brought fresh insight to a neglected area of British colonial history. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445665484</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Xu Hongci and Erling Hoh (Translator)|title= No Wall Too High|rating= 4|genre= History|summary= It was one of the greatest prison breaks of all timeconsidering ''an older, during one of the worst totalitarian tragedies less tethered sense of the 20th Centuryherself. 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 Older. Three times he tried to escapeLess tethered. 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|author=Steven Burgauer|title=The Night of The Eleventh Sun|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=The word That'Neanderthal' has become equated with people deemed to have s not a backward attitude and outlookbad description of where I am. But what do we know Add to that my love of the original Neanderthals from over 200natural world,000 years ago? Here American author [[:Category:Steven Burgauer|Steven Burgauer]] melds of those aspects of the knowledge of anthropologistspoetic and lyrical that are about style not form, archaeologists and historians with the story substance most of Strong Armsall, his family and their struggle to survive in a very effectiveabout connection. Of course, and informative this book had my name on it. It was written for me. It would have found its wayto me eventually. I am pleased to have it fall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419671545</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Anne Glyn-Jones0857058320|title= Morse Code Wrens of Station XLord Of All the Dead|rating= 4.5|genreauthor= 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 tales, so I applaud those who finally saw fit (a) to release them from their life-long bonds of secrecy Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (btranslator) 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

|genre=TravelHistory|summary=There's brave, and there 'Lord Of All the Dead'' is brave. I may well have been born in a coastal county but certainly would baulk at journey to uncover the idea of setting out to sea with four colleagues in a 37author's lost ancestor'-long boat. Boats to me are like planes – the bigger the better, s life and the safer I feel as a resultdeath. But luckily Cercas is searching for the purpose of this book, George Jones was born with a much different pair of sea-legs to mine, and took to meaning behind his great uncle's death in the waters of the English ChannelSpanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, the North Sea and beyond in Cercas''Naromis'' with brio. But – and this great uncle, 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 figure who looms large over the teeth of warbook.|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 He died relatively young whilst fighting for biographersFrancisco Franco's forces. All credit is therefore due to Dr Ashdown-Hill, one of the foremost of current Yorkist-era historians, Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for looking at the King from a fresh angle – that of his romantic involvementsthis dictator.|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 question at the lives centre of their servants this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to be welcomed. Written with the help of a vast archive, this presents a vivid picture of those in service at Trentham, hero whilst having fought for 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 readwrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445654202</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Porter0008294011|title=Everyday Life in Tudor LondonHow to Lose a Country: Life in the City of Thomas Cromwell, William Shakespeare & Anne BoleynThe 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran

|summary=The Tudor period in England marked A little while ago a transition friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in so many ways from years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the question ''Discuss the medieval period factors which led to a new era, ...'' I agreed that she was right and so wasn't certain whether it is only right was a good or bad thing that somebody should at last have examined we didn't know what effect all 'this' was leading to. I think now that should have had on our capital cityI do know. After the instability We are in danger of the Wars losing democracy and whilst it's a flawed system I can't think of the Rosesa better one, a period of consolidation set in and London was at last established particularly as the seat of royalty and government, 'benevolent dictator' is as well rare as the centre of cultural life and commercial activityhen's teeth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445645866</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Wills1788037812|title= The Wreck Fraternity of the SS LondonEstranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson

|summary= The sinking of Originally passed in 1885, the Titanic law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in 1912 was the ocean disaster against which all subsequent shipwrecks have come to be comparedplace for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Yet some forty years earlierBetween 1891 and 1908, three books on the people nature of mid-Victorian Britain and overseas homosexuality appeared. They were horrified written by another loss at sea which at two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as the time had a similar impactheterosexual Havelock Ellis. In January 1866 SS LondonExploring the margins of society and studying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, but barely talked about in the UK, a large new luxury liner en route so the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to Australiathe scientific understanding of homosexuality, went down shortly after leaving Englandand beginning the struggle for recognition and equality, with around 250 people dead, maybe more (leading to the exact figure will never be known), and only three survivorsmilestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144565654X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Van der Kiste1910593508|title=Queen Victoria Apollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and the European EmpiresMike Collins|rating=4.5

|summary=''Queen Victoria and the European Empires'' This incredible graphic novel is a very readable history of Queen Victoria's relationships, both personal love letter to the Moon landings and political with the royalty of Francepassion for the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Germany, Austria Chris Baker and RussiaMike Collins. Many This is a story we know well and because of these associations were based on family tiesthis, but - as the authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in all families - not all connections brought joy in their wakethe blanks. John Van der Kiste - an expert in all things Victorian - produces an elegant picture of These shortcuts are the changing relationships between only downside to the eighteen thirties and the early nineteen hundreds in book. If you've ever read a comic book which adaptation of a film you will be familiar with the slight feeling that there are scenes missing and that dialogue has been trimmed. This is deceptively slim, but packed with fascinating information a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and insightsstill felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781555508</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Bard1786331047|title= Capital PunishmentThe Race to Save the Romanovs: LondonThe Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Places of ExecutionImperial Family|author=Helen Rappaport|rating=45

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