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[[Category:New Reviews|History]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Doggett1785633457|title= Electric ShockCharging Around: From Exploring the Gramophone to the iPhone - 125 Years Edges of PopEngland by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson

|genre=EntertainmentTravel|summary= For many of us, it must be difficult to imagine Clive Wilkinson has a life without recorded music. Millions history of us must have grown up travelling by unconventional means with, even to, a very varied soundtrack consisting of one genre after anotherpreference for slow travel. In this book, Peter Doggett takes a marvellous broad sweep through As he neared his eightieth birthday the history idea of popular music from exploring the end edges of the nineteenth century to the present day, from wax cylinders to streaming servicesEngland in an electric car was not totally outrageous. A rather maudlin ditty 'After The Ball'In fact, by Charles K. Harrisit should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and his wife, is regarded as the first modern popular song (wellJoan, shouldn't it was modern in 1891) – the first of millions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184792218X</amazonuk>?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen RappaportB09BLBP3P8|title=Caught in the RevolutionNeville Chamberlain's War: How Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940|author=Frederic Seager|rating=4.5

|summary= Few cities have experienced a year more dramatic than Petrograd in 1917Received wisdom and simplified narrative often lead to misconceptions about history. The city, now known as St Petersburg, went through two revolutions: One such is the scrubbing from the first a popular uprising that brought down imagination of the Romanov dynastyearly days of World War II from 1939-40, known as the second a Bolshevik coup that led to the formation of the Soviet Union''Phoney War''. At the time, Petrograd was home to a large expatriate community, including diplomatsWe remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, journalistswar breaking out, and businessmen. Many kept diaries or wrote letters home, vividly describing Churchill coming in to save the chaos unfolding at their doorstepday. In Caught Very little time is spent on this period in the Revolutioncultural reflections and yet, Helen Rappaport draws on as Frederic Seager argues in this material to give a gripping first-hand account book, it was of vital significance in how the Russian Revolution, as told by those who lived through itwar played out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091958954</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Melissa Mohr3756228711|title= Holy Sh*tCDC: A brief history of swearing The happy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Hans Bodmer|rating= 3.54|genre= History|summary= Holy Sh*t as ''The history of the name suggests looks at both swearing, in Biblical terms, development of IT could fill books of several hundred pages.'' Author Hans Bodmer is quite right about that. He has chosen to swearingtell us about the short, also usually in Biblical terms but with rather more emphasis on explosive, history of the actControl Data Company, CDC, rather than the deityfor whom he worked. This book takes the reader on It's a journey from the Old Testamentfascinating tale, when swearing your allegiance to the one true God was told in a prerequisite for staying alive, to the Middle Ages where swearing on the same God was punishable by rather grisly death. That takes care mixture of the Holy, now onto the part you are really interested in, the Sh*ttechnological summary and wry anecdote. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>019049168X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenifer RobertsJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=The Beauty of Her Age: A Tale of Sex, Scandal Fritz and Money in Victorian EnglandKurt|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyConfident Readers|summary= The name We start with the pair of Yolande Stephens (nee Duvernay) is not that well-known brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the annals of Victorian Englandneighbours, but behind being dutiful when it lies an enthralling rags-comes to-riches sagathe synagogue choir and at a vocational school. How did Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a young girl born into poverty in Paris become one of light switch. But this is the most celebrated ballerinas of her time in Englandjust before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and after that one instead of having 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 richest women round-ups of Jews. These in their turn leave the countryyounger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz and his father are, with a fortune unknown initially to each other, packed off on her death which rivalled that the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of Queen Victoria?all this could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445653206</amazonuk>024156574X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gordon StevensJohn Henry Phillips|title=The Originals: The Secret History of the Birth of the SASSearch

|summary= The SAS is a regiment shrouded Archaeology cannot be child's play, when you're scraping in secrecy. Since its spectacular rise the dirt looking to fame during the Iranian Embassy siege in 1978find what you can find, it has become often knowing there should be something there but not always confident what. Archaeology must be a part of myth and folklorefair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thing. The paradox This book is that more words have probably been written about this organisation than any other military unit in the world. Some are well researched, and have a genuine historical perspective on case of the regiments operations and activities. Others are pure fantasylatter, which add little, other than further as our author promises to locate the mystique topic of a regiment that lives in the shadowstitular search. And he really hasn't made it easy for himself – the search area is a wide one, the target might not exist any more – oh, and it'The Originals'' provides s underwater, when he cannot dive. Latching on to a fresh perspective. It tells particular D-Day veteran through helping the story of heroic old man's visit back to France, our author has promised to find the birth of the SASlanding craft that delivered him to Normandy, by the people who were thereand that he was lucky to survive when it sank from beneath him. In The secondary aim is to erect a series of long forgotten interviewsmemorial to everyone else aboard, the regiment is brought vast majority of whom perished. Who else would make such promises to life with fresh insight and wonderful anecdotes. someone in their nineties?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091901820</amazonuk>1472146182

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Steven GunnB09F4CTKJR|title= Charles Brandon: Henry VIII's Closest Friend|rating= 3.5|genre= History|summary=Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, was almost unique in Tudor history in that he was a close friend and companion – in fact the closest – of King Henry VIII throughout the latter's reign, never really fell out of favour, and had the good fortune to die peacefully in his bed, just eighteen months before his notoriously capricious royal patron.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445656345</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFlights for Freedom|author=Hugh Sebag-Montefiore|title=Somme: Into the Breach|rating=4|genre=History|summary=One-hundred years ago this month, on the 1st of July 1916, the most notorious battle in the history of the British army began at 07:20 with the detonation of a huge mine under the Hawthorn Redoubt. The Battle of the Somme had begun, and by the end of the first day the British had suffered nearly 60,000 casualties, 20,000 of whom were killed. Published to mark the centenary of the battle, Somme: Into the Breach by historian Hugh Sebag-Montefiore is a comprehensive account of the conflict told primarily by the soldiers who fought in it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670918385</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Peter Rex|title=William the Conqueror: The Bastard of NormandySteven Burgauer

|genre=History Historical Fiction|summary= The basic facts It's the later stages of William World War I's life are inevitably as clouded as those surrounding and the Norman conquest, United States has just entered the events and politics which led conflict. Petrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up to it, and joined the aftermath17 Aero Squadron. As Peter Rex makes clear This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in his introduction, any surviving sources are inevitably very incomplete. MoreoverCanada, 'the writing of first to be attached to the history of RAF and the eleventh century requires first to be sent into the historian skies to attempt fight the Germans in active combat. But before that can happen, Petrol has to provide motives and explanations for events that are only sketchily described at best'master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660172</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Hickley0578761718|title=The Munich Art Hoard: Hitler's Dealer and His Secret LegacyInspiring History of a Special Relationship|author=Nancy Carver

|summary=One The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the most newsworthy events City of London from at least 1181, when it was first mentioned in modern art history happened seemingly by chancerecords. Sadly, When tax police raided the house original church was destroyed in the Great Fire of an aged man London in Munich it 1666. It was because they assumed he had been moving too much money about and paying no tax – this six months rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after he was seen on the train between Bavaria fire and Switzerland with 'nearly too much' cash. The investigators had no casethen survived for centuries until World War II, but he had something much more complex and rich – a massive legacy of 20th Century German and European artwhen it was again ruined by bombs during the Blitz. But that collection had wasn't the end of its story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, the stones from the church's walls were transported to have an origin – one of dubious and at times nefarious beginningsFulton, and one that could have quite a rich and convoluted backgroundMissouri. HickleyThere, in these pages, gives us much in the way grounds of context as well as ironing out those convolutionsWestminster College, so this story is both of interest to Nazi historians the church was rebuilt and art scholars – as well today serves as a memorial to those larger numbers who just like a good story told wellWinston Churchill.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500292574</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Scott1784385166|title=Ancient WorldsThe Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History of Nazi Germany|author=Roger Moorhouse

|summary= History can be perceived as a dusty academic backwater. Often viewed as an irrelevance in our modern world, as we race through What is the daily events of our lives. It is a subject first image that has suffered greatly in our education system, where there has always been a tendency comes to teach mind when you think of the subject in isolation, only focussing on 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 the events that have shaped our own national identity. Michael ScottThird Reich's new book offers a refreshing changefascist regime in all its iniquity. ''Ancient Worlds'' is thought provoking history for the general readerBut some objects and images from that time may be less familiar to you. Well researched and with a persuasive argumentIn this short volume, he explores Roger Moorhouse has attempted to illustrate the period of the interactions across three differing cultures. Interactions that provide a new perspective on our modern worldThird Reich through one hundred of its material artefacts. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091958814</amazonuk> 

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alexandra HarrisLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title= WeatherlandTiananmen 1989: Writers and artists under English skiesOur Shattered Hopes|rating= 4.5|genre= ReferenceGraphic Novels|summary=The story I never really followed the events of English culture over a thousand years can be told as Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in the story second half of changing ideas about the weathertheir teens has other priorities, you know. A sweeping panorama, I certainly didn''Weatherland'' explores how writers t know of the weeks of protests and artists, looking up at hunger strikes from the students before the same skies massacre and walking in the brisk airbirth of the Tank Man image, I didn't know how the area had long been a venue for political protest, have felt very different things. A journey through centuries and cultures, Harris walks I didn't know more than a spit about the reader through misty moor and foggy fen, lays with them people involved on bright sunlit beaches, treks with them to stormy summits, and introduces them to either side. This book is practically flawless in giving a fascinating cast general browser's context for the whole season of writers, artists and cultural figures along the wayprotests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0500292655</amazonuk>1684056993

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jem Duducu0648684806|title= Forgotten HistoryClara Colby: Unbelievable Moments from the PastThe International Suffragist|author=John Holliday|rating= 4.5|genre= HistoryBiography|summary=The numerous highwayspath 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, byways she wasn't allowed to sail with her parents and tangents three brothers. Instead, she remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and saw that she received a good education, both in and out of school. She was the chronicle only child in the household and her childhood was glorious. By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the mid-west of our the United States and life on earth provide was hard, as Clara was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to join the raw rata family. Clara would only know her mother for a few months: she was married for any number of alternative historiesfifteen years, had ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and died in this book Jem Duducu has trawled magnificently through childbirth not long after Clara arrived. As the ages from several centuries BC up to the present dayeldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445656345</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Wall1783784350|title= The Anglo-Saxons in 100 FactsThis Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= As one of the generation who It was December and Esther Rutter was introduced stuck in her office job, writing to English history through the people she'Kings d never met and Queens' principle, preparing spreadsheets. The job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. January was going to be a time for making changes and thoroughly enjoyed it, I have long since regarded she decided that she would travel the period between length and breadth of the Roman invasion British Isles with occasional forays abroad, discovering and telling the Norman conquest as a bit story of a blurwool's history and how it had made and changed the landscape. For me it is She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - '' a rather murky area, punctuated by free-range child on the likes of Hengist farm'' - and Horsalearned to spin, Alfred the Great knit and Ethelred the Unready, not to mention the Athelstans, Edgars, Egberts weave from her mother and others who are so often little more than namesher mother's friend. In order words, what exactly did they do? This admirable title brings it all into focuswas in her blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445656388</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Robert Kershaw1789017977|title= 24 Hours at the SommeRonnie and Hilda's Romance: Towards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams|rating= 54|genre= ReferenceHistory|summary=''They came past one by one...walking lumps Ronnie Williams was the son of clay, with torn clothing, hollow cheeks Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) and sunken eyes..Ethel Wall. There was a dreadful weariness'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 wildness burning in their fevered eyes, showing what this appalling hand to hand fighting had cost themfew years off his age. Utterly unforgivable for me...'' So goes For a while the description of family was quite well-to-do but disaster struck in the men, the ''ghosts,'' at the end of the first day of the Somme. July 1 2016 will mark 100 years since this most bloody of battles took place1929 Depression and five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a very different lifestyle. It One thing he did inherit from his father was supposed his need to be the optimistic 'Big Push' that well-turned-out and this would end the Great War, but by sunset of the first day the British casualties numbered 57,470stay with him throughout his life. The battle would rage until November that year, with He joined the total number of casualties on all sides exceeding one millionarmy at eighteen in 1942.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753555476</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher McGrath1980891117|title=Mr Darley's Arabian: High Life, Low Life, Sporting LifeG Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A History of Racing in 25 Horses|rating=5|genre=Sport|summary=All thoroughbred racehorses are descended from one of just three stallions which came to England about three hundred years ago; The Byerley Turk, The Darley Arabian and The Godolphin Arabian. The last century or so has seen a decline year in the lines from the first and last of these stallions, to the extent that some 95% life of all thoroughbreds worldwide - not just in England - are descended from The Darley Arabian, which was originally bought in Aleppo from Bedouin tribesmen and shipped to Yorkshire in 1704, by Thomas Darley, who died, in difficult financial circumstances before he could follow his horse home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848549830</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewGeorge Engleheart|author=Wade Graham|title=Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the WorldJohn Webley

|genre= HistoryArt|summary=Between 1950 and 2014 George Engleheart was one of the world's urban population increased leading portrait miniaturists of Georgian London, with a career lasting from 746 million the 1770s to 3the Regency era.9 billionHe was also one of the most prolific, painting nearly 5,000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of King George III). The urbanising trend is set to continue with the United Nations predicting Throughout most of that by time he carefully recorded the middle names of the century 66% each of us will be city dwellershis clients, a massive six billion people. How have city planners and architects tried subsequently transcribed them into what is referred to cope with the recent surge? How can they avoid repeating mistakes from the past? Both of those questions are considered in Dream Cities – Seven Urban Ideas That Shape The World, Wade Graham's excellent field guide to the modern worldas his fee book. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445659735</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kathleen Chater1789016304|title= The Reformation in 100 Facts|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary=The Reformation was one of the major events, if not themes War and Love: A family's testament of European history, that has decisively shaped the modern worldanguish, endurance and has inevitably provided material for many a detailed account devotion in print. This handy little volume, one of a new series from Amberley, reduces a very complex subject to a series of short chapters which make an ideal introduction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445651343</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewoccupied Amsterdam|author= John Casson and William D Rubinstein|title= Sir Henry Neville Was Shakespeare: The EvidenceMelanie Martin|rating= 4.5

|summary= Debunking 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 ''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 Bard of Avon on city during the grounds that he did war years, but only five thousand survived and Martin could not write the plays attributed understand how this could be allowed to happen in a country with liberal values who were resistant to him is nothing newGerman occupation. This scholarly workMost people believed 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, based on several years' research and new evidence, is by no means that the first Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to suggest otherwiseescalate in the way that it did, and provides a compelling argument but initial protests melted away as to who really was the authororganisers became more circumspect. It's an atrocity on a vast scale but made up of tens of thousands of individual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445654660</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clinton Romesha1908745819|title=Red PlatoonSurfacing|author=Kathleen Jamie

|summary= When the soldiers of Red Platoon arrived at Combat Outpost KeatingSometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book, in Nuristan Province, Afghanistan, the vulnerabilities of the outpost were frighteningly obvious. It was surrounded they tell you ''this one has your name on all sides by steep and wooded hills, giving the Taliban excellent vantage points to observe the outpost and fire into it; the helicopter landing zone''. Mostly we take them at their word, essential for bringing in supplies and evacuating the woundedor not, was situated outside but rarely do we ask them why they thought so unless it turns out that we didn't like the base across book. That's a river; and the perimeter was too large to be sufficiently defendedrare experience. These weaknesses were also obvious People who are sensitive to the Talibanhearing a book calling your name, and on the 3rd October 2009rarely get it wrong. In this case, just after dawn, they launched a full-out assault to capture the baseI was told why. Red Platoon is a first-hand account The blurb speaks of the frantic battle that followedauthor considering ''an older, written by Staff Sergeant Clinton Romesha who received the Medal less tethered sense of Honor for his actionsherself.'' Older.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848094647</amazonuk> }}{{newreview|author= Teresa Cole|title= Henry V: The Life of the Warrior King & the Battle of Agincourt|rating= 4Less tethered.5|genre= Biography|summary= Henry V is remembered as one of EnglandThat's greatest warrior kings, not least as a result bad description of his immortalisation in the play by Shakespeare (as well as by two film versions of the drama)where I am. Ironically he was one Add to that my love of several great-grandchildren the natural world, of Edward III, and as he was considered relatively unimportant at the time those aspects of his birth, exactly when he arrived in the world was poetic and lyrical that are about style not recorded form, and two different dates have been given. It was the deposition substance most of his father's childless cousin Richard II in 1399 which placed him directly in the line of successionall, about connection.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445655411</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kathryn Warner |title=Isabella of France: The Rebel Queen |rating= 5|genre= History|summary= Ask almost anyone what they know about IsabellaOf course, Queen of King Edward IIthis book had my name on it. The chances are that they will tell you she It was ‘the she-wolf of France’ who was so infuriated by her gay husband’s propensity written for disastrous favourites that she took a lover and they conspired me. It would have found its way to depose him, then have him murdered in captivityme eventually. The truth is somewhat different. To use an old cliché, if you throw enough mud I am pleased to have it will stick. A good deal has adhered to this seemingly much-maligned couple over the yearsfall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445647400</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Penrose Halson0857058320|title=Marriages Are Made in Bond Street: True Stories from a 1940's Marriage BureauLord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)

|summary=Audrey Parsons had no desire ''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a journey to marryuncover the author's lost ancestor's life and death. Her mother, however, had quite different ideas and was insistent that her daughter find a husband, as their would be no place Cercas is searching for her at the family farm when she was oldermeaning behind his great uncle's death in the Spanish Civil War. Frustrated by her lack of optionsManuel Mena, Audrey bowed to pressure and went to stay with her Cercas' great uncle in India in , is the hope of finding a husband. When she arrived she was overwhelmed by all of figure who looms large over the male attention she receivedbook. In the colonies, eligible women were few and far between and men were desperate He died relatively young whilst fighting for wivesFrancisco Franco's forces. Although she didn't find a husband, she hit upon an idea that would kill two birds with one stone: she would find wives Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for these lonely men, whilst this dictator. The question at the same time creating centre of this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to be a business that would allow her hero whilst having fought for the financial independence she craved. The Marriage Bureau was bornwrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447282620</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Popham 0008294011|title=How to Lose a Country: The Lady and the Generals: Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle for Freedom7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran

|genre=BiographyHistory|summary=On 13 November 2010, Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest after spending 15 of the previous 21 A little while ago a friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in years as a prisoner of Burma's military junta. Political reforms soon followed, culminating with Suu (as she prefers to come would be known) being elected discussed by A level history students when faced with the question ''Discuss the factors which led to parliament. The West rejoiced; leaders, business men, and tourists poured in; and Suu entered the pantheon of modern-day political heroes. Burma .'' I agreed that she was a burgeoning democracy, right and Suu wasn't certain whether it was a saintgood or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was leading to. I think now that I do know. In reality, as Peter Popham argues We are in danger of losing democracy and whilst it'The Lady and the Generalss a flawed system I can't think of a better one, particularly as the situation was far more complex'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846043719</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kristie Dean1788037812|title= On the Trail The Fraternity of the YorksEstranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= Just when you wondered whether there was room Originally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on your shelves for another book same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the Yorkist dynastynature of homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, here comes a very enterprising additionas well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Part biographyExploring the margins of society and studying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, part travel guidebut barely talked about in the UK, this is a guidebook comprising a tour so the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the scientific understanding of various places at home homosexuality, and beginning the struggle for recognition and abroad associated with equality, leading to the major figuresmilestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445647133</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Edith Hall1910593508|title=The Ancient Greeks: Ten Ways They Shaped the Modern WorldApollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins|rating= 5

|summary= Reading Edith Hall's book on the Ancient Greeks, develops This incredible graphic novel is a deep respect for love letter to the power of poetry. No poet was more effective in this regard than Homer recounting Moon landings and the sea adventures contained in passion for the ''The Odyssey''subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins. It shaped the self-definition of This is a nation story we know well and engendered self-confidence. The mariners set out in their beautiful ships across because of this, the Aegean and established colonies to the West, authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the Mediterranean as far as blanks. These shortcuts are the Pillars of Hercules, only downside to the East as far as the Levant and built trading cities in natural harbours along the fertile edges of the Black Seabook. They were, as Plato wrote in the Phaedo, If you''around ve ever read a comic book adaptation of a film you will be familiar with the sea, like frogs slight feeling that there are scenes missing and ants around that dialogue has been trimmed. This is a pond.'' They were encouraged by Delphic oracles graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and inspired by the company of diving dolphinsstill felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009958364X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lyuba Vinogradova and Arch Tait (translator)1786331047|title=Defending The Race to Save the MotherlandRomanovs: The Soviet Women Who Fought HitlerTruth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's AcesImperial Family|author=Helen Rappaport|rating=2.5

|summary=If you picture a wartime fighter ace in your mind, chances are it will hold to a few certain characteristics. The chutzpah on the face of a Han Solo, a fluffy pilot's jacket perhaps, basic facts about the swagger deaths of a person who's faced and dealt death Nicholas and come out the other side only strongerAlexandra, someone who can carry off the look some of pilot's goggles – and whatever your visual impression, pretty much certainly a male. But consider the Soviet war machine, facing the Nazis easily absorbing Ukrainian territories and closing on Moscow with surprising rapidity. This is a country where all jobs are gender neutral, and where young girls fresh out of school had been building the Moscow Underground stations. No wonder, then, that that place and that cause which were deliberately obscured at the locations time for the world's firstvarious reasons, and apparently, only female air regimentshave long since been established.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857051954</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= John Aubrey|title= Brief Lives|rating= 4|genre= Biography|summary= John Aubrey was a modest man, an antiquarian and For the inventor last few months of modern biography. His their lives of in Russia the prominent figures of his generation include Shakespeare, Milton, former Tsar and Sir Walter Raleigh. FunnyTsarina, illuminating their children and full of historical detailsfew remaining servants were held in increasingly squalid, they have been plundered by historians for centurieshumiliating captivity. Here Aubrey's biographical writings are collectedTo prevent them from being rescued, painting a series of unforgettable portraits of in July 1918 the characters of his day – revolutionary regime had them all more alive shot and kicking than bayoneted to death in a conventional history book. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784870331</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Lauren Johnson|title= So Great a Prince: England and the Accession of Henry VIII|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= King Henry VIIcircumstances which, whose victory at once the battle of Bosworth in 1485 brought the curtain down on the Wars of the Rosesnews was confirmed beyond all doubt, 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 horrified their relatives in fascinating detail the transitional year between the old and the newEurope.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178185985X</amazonuk>