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|author=Peter Doggett

|title= Electric Shock: From the Gramophone to the iPhone - 125 Years of Pop

|rating=5

|genre=Entertainment

|summary= For many of us, it must be difficult to imagine a life without recorded music. Millions of us must have grown up with, even to, a very varied soundtrack consisting of one genre after another. In this book, Peter Doggett takes a marvellous broad sweep through the history of popular music from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day, from wax cylinders to streaming services. A rather maudlin ditty 'After The Ball', by Charles K. Harris, is regarded as the first modern popular song (well, it was modern in 1891) – the first of millions.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184792218X</amazonuk>

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|author=Helen Rappaport

|summary= King Henry VII, whose victory at the battle of Bosworth in 1485 brought the curtain down on the Wars of the Roses, brought peace and stability to a divided country, but his last few years were marked by corruption and repression. When he died in 1509, there were hopes that his eighteen-year-old heir, now Henry VIII, would mark the end of medieval England and the start of a new era. The age of Protestantism and the Renaissance would indeed fulfil these aspirations. Lauren Johnson's book examines in fascinating detail the transitional year between the old and the new.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178185985X</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Delia Garratt and Tara Hamling (editors)~~

~~|title=Shakespeare and the Stuff of Life: Treasures from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust~~

~~|rating=5~~

~~|genre=History~~

|summary=You remember that thing the British Museum did a few years back, where they picked the best of the best they owned – 100 objects that most epitomised both the riches of the place and the cultures it was designed to represent? Well, it seems that idea has legs. It’s been repeated, even, for the purpose of illuminating just one man – and you can probably guess that man was Mr Shakespeare. There has indeed been a project to pick a hundred limelights to illuminate his texts and his times, although for the purpose of this book they have been whittled down to fifty – and arranged by theme according to Jaques' 'Seven Ages of Man' speech from ''As You Like It''. And the chances are, seeing as the results are almost more powerful here than in the best museum, you will like it very much indeed.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1474222269</amazonuk>~~

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