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[[Category:New Reviews|History]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{Frontpage|isbn=1785633457|title=Charging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating=5|genre=Travel|summary=Clive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of exploring the edges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageous. In fact, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and his wife, Joan, shouldn't it?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09BLBP3P8|title=Neville Chamberlain's War: How Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940|author=Frederic Seager|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary=Received wisdom and simplified narrative often lead to misconceptions about history. One such is the scrubbing from the popular imagination of the early days of World War II from 1939-40, known as the ''Phoney War''. We remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, war breaking out, and Churchill coming in to save the day. Very little time is spent on this period in cultural reflections and yet, as Frederic Seager argues in this book, it was of vital significance in how the war played out.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=3756228711|title=CDC: The happy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Hans Bodmer|rating=4|genre=History|summary=''The history of the development of IT could fill books of several hundred pages.''
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|summary= I've never been that interested The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the City of London from at least 1181, when it was first mentioned in Ancient Romerecords. Blame my teachersSadly, or our oh-so-dry visits to Roman villas with their earnest interpretation panels, or perhaps I just daydreamed through all the original church was destroyed in the interesting bits… Somehow I entered adulthood with Great Fire of London in 1666. It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the impression that all Romans were bloodthirsty fire and hedonistic heathens with little to recommend themthen survived for centuries until World War II, when it was again ruined by bombs during the Blitz. But that wasn't the end of its story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, the stones from the church'Mea culpa''s walls were transported to Fulton, you might sayMissouri. So when my eye fell upon Philip Matyszak's ''24 Hours There, in Ancient Rome''the grounds of Westminster College, the church was rebuilt and its claim today serves as a memorial to introduce readers Winston Churchill.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1784385166|title=The Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History of Nazi Germany|author=Roger Moorhouse|rating=5|genre=History|summary=What is the first image that comes to mind when you think of the real Ancient Rome by examining 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 lives of ordinary people, I decided it was high Third Reich's fascist regime in all its iniquity. But some objects and images from that time may be less familiar to update my educationyou. And In this short volume, Roger Moorhouse has attempted to illustrate the lovely artwork on period of the front cover made this book all the more appealingThird Reich through one hundred of its material artefacts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782438564</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sharon Bennett ConnollyLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title= Heroines of the Medieval WorldTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes|rating= 4.5|genre= HistoryGraphic Novels|summary= Many women I never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in medieval times left the second half of their mark on historyteens has other priorities, you know. I certainly didn't know of the weeks of protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and the birth of the Tank Man image, but as I didn't know how the area had long been a rule they have been neglected by biographers venue for political protest, and historians as there I didn't know more than a spit about the people involved on either side. This book is too little surviving information practically flawless in giving a general browser's context for them to have even brief biographies to themselves. Ms Connolly has adopted an enterprising solution to the problem by writing a general account on a broadly thematic basiswhole season of protests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445662647</amazonuk>1684056993
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Nathen Amin0648684806|title=The House of BeaufortClara Colby: The Bastard Line that Captured the CrownInternational Suffragist|author=John Holliday|rating= 4|genre= HistoryBiography|summary= The path of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family name emigrated to the USA. At the time she was just three-years-old but because of Beaufort played some childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to sail with her parents and three brothers. Instead, she remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and saw that she received a major part good education, both in and out of school. She was the only child in British history during the fourteenth household and fifteenth centuriesher childhood was glorious. It therefore seems remarkable that little has been written about them until By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the appearance mid-west of this bookthe United States and life was hard, as Clara was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to join the family. Clara would only know her mother for a 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 heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445647648</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Josh Dean1783784350|title=The Taking of K-129This Golden Fleece: The Most Daring Covert Operation in A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter
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|summary=In February 1968 the Soviet nuclear missile submarine K-129 left the port of Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatka peninsula with a crew of 98 submarinersIt was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, writing to people she'd never met and preparing spreadsheets. The captain job frustrated her and executive officers were experienced: the only factor giving cause even her knitting did not soothe her mind. January was going to be a time for concern was making changes and she decided that she would travel the crew had only recently returned to base length and breadth of the British Isles with occasional forays abroad, discovering and were expecting a longer break telling the story of wool's history and were only back at sea because two sister ships how it had experienced mechanical problems made and were unfit for combat controls. The Division Commander complained that changed the decision was cruel and potentially recklesslandscape. He would be proved right She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - but not publicly '' a free- as Krange child on the farm'' -129 went down with all hands in March 1968and learned to spin, knit and weave from her mother and her mother's friend. It This was a while before the sSoviet navy realised that it had lost one of its submarines and despite an extensive search they couldn't find itin her blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445674742</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martyn Beardsley1789017977|title= Waterloo Voices 1815Ronnie and Hilda's Romance: The Battle at First HandTowards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= The battle Ronnie Williams was the son of WaterlooThomas 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, fought on but he was already many years older than Ethel and he might well have shaved a midsummer day on few years off his age. For a muddy field while the family was quite well-to-do but disaster struck in Belgium, brought an end the 1929 Depression and five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to a very different lifestyle. One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to two decades of war in Europebe well-turned-out and this would stay with him throughout his life. As one of He joined the pivotal events of the nineteenth century, it has inevitably been the focus of many accounts over the last two hundred yearsarmy at eighteen in 1942.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660164</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Rutherford1980891117|title=Landscape GardensG Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the life of George Engleheart|author=John Webley|rating=4.5
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|summary=My first experience George Engleheart was one of the leading portrait miniaturists of Georgian London, with a ''big'' garden career lasting from the 1770s to the Regency era. He was Versailles also one of the most prolific, painting nearly 5,000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of King George III). Throughout most of that time he carefully recorded the names of each of his clients, and subsequently transcribed them into what is referred to as a teenager his fee book.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1789016304|title=War and Love: A family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin|rating=5|genre=History|summary=Melanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and whilst I was impressedentranced by what she discovered, I didnparticularly in ''The Diary of Ann Frank'' but then realised that her own family't really like its stories were equally fascinating. I felt stifled A hundred and strangely underwhelmed by seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the flatness of it allwar years, but only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a country with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. As luck Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the Germans might reach the city were convinced that they would have soon be pushed back, that the Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in the way that it I then saw Hampton Court and it was official: I was off big gardensdid, but initial protests melted away as the organisers became more circumspect. It would be many years before I revised my opinion's an atrocity on a vast scale but made up of tens of thousands of individual tragedies. On }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1908745819|title=Surfacing|author=Kathleen Jamie|rating=5|genre=History|summary=Sometimes when people suggest that you read a trip to Harewood House certain book, they tell you ''this one has your name on it''. Mostly we take them at their word, or not, but rarely do we ask them why they thought so unless it was too hot turns out that we didn't like the book. That's a day rare experience. People who are sensitive to be corralled into the househearing a book calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, so I wandered was told why. The blurb speaks of the gardens and found they were delightfulauthor considering ''an older, less tethered sense of herself. '' Older. Less tethered. That's not a bad description of where I felt upliftedam. Then a cricket match at Stowe gave me Add to that my love of the opportunity to walk natural world, of those aspects of the grounds for over an hourpoetic and lyrical that are about style not form, and substance most of all, about connection. Of course, this book had my name on it. I It was completely won over and a devotee of Lancelot 'Capability' Brownwritten for me. It would have found its way to me eventually. Sarah Rutherford's ''Landscape Gardens'' was an opportunity I am pleased to put him in contexthave it fall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445669935</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vicky Hayward0857058320|title=Juan Altamiras' New Art of Cookery: A Spanish Friar's Kitchen NotebookLord Of All the Dead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)
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|genre=CookeryHistory|summary=In 1745 ''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a journey to uncover the author's lost ancestor's life and death. Cercas is searching for the meaning behind his great uncle's death in the Spanish friary cookCivil War. Manuel Mena, Juan AltamirasCercas' great uncle, published is the figure who looms large over the first edition book. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. The question at the centre of this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to be a hero whilst having fought for the wrong side. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008294011|title=How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary=A little while ago a friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the question ''New Art of Cookery, Drawn From Discuss the School of Economic Experiencefactors which led to...''. It contained more than two hundred recipes for meat, poultry, game, salted and fresh fish, vegetables and desserts. The style I agreed that she was informal, chatty and humorous on occasions right and wasn't certain whether it was aimed, not at those who could afford to cook on a grand scale, but at those with more modest budgets, who sometimes needed good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was leading to cook for large numbers. Whilst the ingredients were - for the most part - modestly priced there is a stress on the careful combination of flavours and aromasI think now that I do know. Spices We are used conservatively and the bluntness of some Moorish cooking is eschewed in favour danger of something much more subtle losing democracy and we see influences from Altamiraswhilst it's a flawed system I can' own region, Aragont think of a better one, particularly as the Iberian court and the New World'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1442279419</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Susan Duxbury-Neumann1788037812|title= What Have The Fraternity of the Germans Ever Done Estranged: The Fight for Us?: A History of the German Population of Great BritainHomosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson|rating= 45|genre= History|summary= The adapted Monty Pythonesque rhetorical question takes some Originally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time to provide a full answer, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the nature of homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the margins of society and this slim studying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, but useful volume does barely talked about in the UK, so very wellthe publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the scientific understanding of homosexuality, and beginning the struggle for recognition and equality, leading to the milestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445664860</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Gillian Tindall1910593508|title= The Tunnel Through Time: A New Route for an Old London JourneyApollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary=This book traces the course of historical journeys across incredible graphic novel is a love letter to the city in time Moon landings and space, examining how the areas above passion for the new Crossrail routesubject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, the largest building project currently under construction in Europe offering high speed links across LondonChris Baker and Mike Collins. This is a story we know well and because of this, have changed over the centuries, with destruction and renewal being authors take a constantly recurring process few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the cityblanks. These shortcuts are the only downside to the book. If you's historyve ever read a comic book adaptation of a film you will be familiar with the slight feeling that there are scenes missing and that dialogue has been trimmed. It This is a fascinating, compellingly readable exploration through the historical highways graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and byways of the metropolisstill felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587793</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Trigg1786331047|title=Voices of The Race to Save the Flemish Waffen-SSRomanovs: The Final Testament of Truth Behind the OostfrontersSecret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family|author=Helen Rappaport|rating=3.5
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|summary=In The basic facts about the week I write thisdeaths of Nicholas and Alexandra, Trump has come under fire for not condemning fascistic behaviour in America from some Neo-Nazis. It strikes me that of which were deliberately obscured at the ''Neo-'' is a pointless dignification – yestime for various reasons, they cannot be deemed to follow Hitler precisely as he's have long dead and burnt, so they're kind of new, but common sense obliges me to just call them Nazissince been established. Their excuse is they feel America has been invaded by For the enemy – but what if you were indeed under occupation? Could you see yourself working for last few months of their lives in Russia the forces that had indeed invaded you? The author begins by pointing out that several countries were invaded by the Nazisformer Tsar and Tsarina, their children and they have different feelings about the people who worked against the commonly-few remaining servants were held nationalistic aimin increasingly squalid, humiliating captivity. France hates her collaboratorsTo prevent them from being rescued, but just north of in July 1918 the border things are different – revolutionary regime had them all shot and bayoneted to death in circumstances which, once the picture is a lot more muddy as a resultnews was confirmed beyond all doubt, horrified their relatives in Europe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445666367</amazonuk>
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