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|title=High Minds: The Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain
|summary=From its founding by the Quaker brothers Cyrus and James Clark in the Somerset village of Street, to its present-day status as a global shoe brand, the name of Clark has weathered many a storm as it draws close to its bicentenary. This account of the company, by a distant kinsman of the two original founders, has drawn heavily on the archives and on in-depth interviews with the family to tell the full story.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685206</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Emily Cockayne
|title=Cheek by Jowl: A History of Neighbours
|rating=4.5
|genre=History
|summary=As Emily Cockayne emphasises at the beginning of the first chapter, almost everyone has a neighbour; if you have a neighbour, you are one yourself; and neighbours can enrich or ruin our lives. In this engaging book, she takes various case studies and anecdotes of living side by side in Britain from around 1200 to the present day.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546949</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ian Mortimer
|title=The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England
|rating=5
|genre=History
|summary=For many of us, the Elizabethan age which comprised almost half of the Tudor era seems bathed in sunlight, the gilded era of Queen Elizabeth's 'sceptred isle'. It was the period in which Gloriana presided over Sir Francis Drake's circumnavigation of the globe, the defeat of the Spanish Armada, and the literary epoch of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser and Sidney.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099542072</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tony Judt and Timothy Snyder
|title=Thinking the Twentieth Century
|rating=4.5
|genre=History
|summary=In emulating historians from his geographical area of interest, Timothy Snyder poses questions to, and discusses ideas with, the highly esteemed British historian and writer Tony Judt, best known for his 2005 ''Postwar''. This collaboration of the older and the younger thinker engenders the spoken book ''Thinking the Twentieth Century'', a rather intriguing exploration of said time period. Each of its ten chapters begins with Judt’s narrative of a specific point in his personal life, and continues into debates of specific facets of history; a healthy mix of thematic and chronological approaches is used for the latter.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009956355X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Cathryn J Prince
|title=Death in the Baltic: The World War II Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff
|rating=4
|genre=History
|summary=There is no pun intended when I describe the ship ''Wilhelm Gustloff'' as stern. It just seems from looking at her hard and rigid lines that if you were to design a ship that the Nazi party would use as an ideological tool, to take their favoured workers on pleasure cruises around the Mediterranean, you would naturally end up with something that looked like her. However fate had it that within years she became a hospital ship, and it wasn't much longer after that that she was stationed in the northern Polish port now known as Gdynia, ready to help in a major evacuation of thousands of desperate, starving and fevered people fleeing the advancing Soviet army. All they wanted to do was to avoid the perilous snowy overland route to get a few miles along the coast, but they weren't to know that within hours of sailing the ''Wilhelm Gustloff'' would be torpedoed, and many thousands would perish in the near-frozen Baltic waters.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>023034156X</amazonuk>
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