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[[Category:New Reviews|History]]==History==__NOTOC__<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Beaumont1785633457|title=The Secret Life Charging Around: Exploring the Edges of War: Journeys Through Modern Conflict England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson
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|summary=The title Clive Wilkinson has a history of this book suggests another travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel book about adventure in . As he neared his eightieth birthday the frozen north, but Sara Wheeler mixes her tales of her own travels with some history of polar exploration and a serious examination idea of exploring the impact edges of visitors and of those who wish to exploit the Arctic’s natural resources on the region and its peopleEngland in an electric car was not totally outrageous. Rather than setting off on another expedition to reach the North PoleIn fact, she travels around bits of the Arctic divided between different countries it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and governments, including Chukotka (Russia), Alaska (USA)his wife, CanadaJoan, Greenland, Svalbard (Norway) and Lapland (Russia and Scandinavia). There is a huge amount of material in the book but Wheeler organises and presents shouldn't it in a very readable, accessible style.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516888</amazonuk>?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ronald Skirth and Duncan BarrettB09BLBP3P8|title=The Reluctant TommyNeville Chamberlain's War: An Extraordinary Memoir of the First World WarHow Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940|author=Frederic Seager
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|summary=As Received wisdom and simplified narrative often lead to misconceptions about history. One such is the author says in her introduction, scrubbing from the 'great silence' popular imagination of the title was that which followed early days of World War II from 1939-40, known as the 'incessant thunder' of the Great Phoney War''. There are three crucial dates in her narrativeWe remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, war breaking out, all specific days and Churchill coming in three successive Novembersto save the day. The first was when the guns fell silent Very little time is spent on this period in 1918cultural reflections and yet, the second was that of the first two-minute silence as Frederic Seager argues in memory of the fallen one year laterthis book, and the third it was when the Unknown Soldier was lowered into silence beneath the floor in Westminster Abbey, another year on. These act as a framework around which she tells the story of the silence of grief which affected everyone vital significance in various ways during how the first two years of peacewar played out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0719562562</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Griffiths3756228711|title=CDC: The Lotus Questhappy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Hans Bodmer
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|summary='A source 'The history of hope for a radiant future or…the greatest threat on the face development of the earthIT could fill books of several hundred pages.''.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John WelshmanJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Churchill's Children: The Evacuee Experience in Wartime Britain Fritz and Kurt
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|summary=We start with the pair of 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 neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and at a vocational school. 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 light switch. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and 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 round-ups of Jews. These in their turn leave the younger 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, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…
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{{Frontpage
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|summary=As Archaeology cannot be child's play, when you're scraping in the dirt looking to find what you can find, often knowing there should be something there but not always confident what. Archaeology must be a little girl I was fascinated by stories from the second world warfair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thing. My Nan would tell me tales This book is a case of her work doing weldingthe latter, my mumas our author promises to locate the topic of the titular search. And he really hasn's uncle had exciting adventure stories from his years in t made it easy for himself – the search area is a wide one, the RAFtarget might not exist any more – oh, and it's underwater, when he cannot dive. Latching on to a particular D-Day veteran through helping the book Carrieheroic old man's War was one I returned visit back to France, our author has promised to find the landing craft that delivered him to again Normandy, and again. So I that he was intrigued by this title which looks at the stories of thirteen children and adults through World War Two, lucky to survive when it sank from the first wave of evacuations through beneath him. The secondary aim is to erect a memorial to everyone else aboard, the end vast majority of the warwhom perished.Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0199574413</amazonuk>1472146182
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catrine ClayB09F4CTKJR|title=Trautmann's Journey: From Hitler Youth to FA Cup LegendFlights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer
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|genre=BiographyHistorical Fiction|summary=It'You have s the later stages of World War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up and joined the 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the first US Aero Squadron to learn be trained in Canada, the first to be hard men, attached to accept sacrifice without ever succumbing'. Such did Hitler say at the Nuremberg Nazi Party rallies in RAF and the 1930s. He probably did not have in mind playing in goal at a FA Cup final with a broken neck, such is first to be sent into the lifetime of difference between skies to fight the two referencesGermans in active combat. But before that lifetimecan happen, as packed and varied as it was, is in Petrol has to master flying the pages of this ever-interesting and swiftly-devoured booknotoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224082884</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Skidmore0578761718|title=Death and the Virgin: Elizabeth, Dudley and the Mysterious Fate of Amy Robsart |rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary=When Elizabeth I ascended the throne in November 1558, everyone's dominant concern was the matter of her taking an appropriate husband and securing the succession. The man most likely to become her husband was Robert Dudley, whom she made her Master of the Horse and entrusted with considerable responsibility for her coronation festivities. The fact that he was already married to Amy Robsart did little to quell the speculation, especially since she was believed to be dying Inspiring History of breast cancer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297846507</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewa Special Relationship|author=R A Scotti|title=The Lost Mona LisaNancy Carver
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|summary=One The church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the few things I remember City of London from those writers' courses and advice books – and I can hear from here you wished I remembered more of them – at least 1181, when it was first mentioned in records. Sadly, the merit original church was destroyed in being aware the Great Fire of anniversariesLondon in 1666. It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the fire and then survived for centuries until World War II, especially in your area when it was again ruined by bombs during the Blitz. But that wasn't the end of expertiseits story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, and having the ability stones from the church's walls were transported to sell articles concerning historical events linked into centenaries, modern comparisonsFulton, and so onMissouri. WellThere, here is in the book equivalentgrounds of Westminster College, the church was rebuilt and although it's early – it's looking back on the summer of 1911 – this stands today serves as quality enough a memorial to deny any latecomers shelf roomWinston Churchill.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0553818309</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Greg Grandin1784385166|title=FordlandiaThe Third Reich in 100 Objects: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City|rating=4.5|genre=A Material History|summary=In 1927, the Ford Motor company bought a huge tract of land in Brazil, for the purpose of the company growing its own rubber for use in making its cars. They planted rubber trees and built a factory and houses, and a number of top managers from the company were posted to Fordlandia to run the operation. Huge amounts of money were pumped into Fordlandia, and Ford made great claims for their plans. However, the project was a spectacular failure, and it lasted less than twenty years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848311478</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dominique Lapierre|title=A Rainbow in the Night |rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=A book integrating otherwise piecemeal news stories picked up over the past forty years into a coherent explanation is always welcome. This book explores South Africa's history and development, from the earliest Dutch arrivals in 1652 to the first racially integrated elections in 1994.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0306818477</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewNazi Germany|author=Doug Stewart|title=The Boy Who Would Be ShakespeareRoger Moorhouse
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|summary=In What is the late 18th century, keen first image that comes to impress mind when you think of the Shakespeare-obsessed father who paid him little attention, 19 year old William Henry Ireland forged a couple of Elizabethan documents Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The gate to show him. With the older man completely taken in, his child then pretended he'd found a trunk full concentration camp? None of lost artefacts belonging to the Bard – love letters to Anne Hathaway, a declaration these are comfortable images but they are emblematic of his Protestant faith, the manuscript of King Lear, Third Reich's fascist regime in all its iniquity. But some objects and even entirely new playsimages from that time may be less familiar to you. Ireland fooled not only his fatherIn this short volume, but also many Roger Moorhouse has attempted to illustrate the period of the prominent Londoners Third Reich through one hundred of the time, including Robert Southey, James Boswell, and the future William IVits material artefacts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0306818310</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jim Krane|title=Dubai: The Story of the World's Fastest City|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary=In the 1950's, Dubai contained just a few thousand inhabitants scraping a living. By 1985, it had grown, but Sheikh Mohammed was still laughed at when he said that he wanted to make it a popular destination for tourists. With the addition of artificial islands, the world's tallest building, an indoor ski slope, and much more, it's now one of the world's foremost cities - but as headlines showed last year, the stellar growth may have been extremely costly, in terms of financesLun Zhang, environmental problemsAdrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and the quality of life for some of its inhabitants.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848870094</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Frances Stonor SaundersEdward Gauvin (translator)|title=The Woman Who Shot MussoliniTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes
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|genre=HistoryGraphic Novels|summary=Most British titled families I never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in the 19th and 20th centuries have produced second half of their fair share of rebelsteens has other priorities, you know. Yet few came as close to changing I certainly didn't know of the course weeks of European history as protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and the Honourable Violet Gibson, one birth of eight children of Baron Ashbournethe Tank Man image, a Protestant Anglo-Irish peer and MP in DisraeliI didn's government during t know how the 1870s.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571239773</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Josephine Wilkinson|title=The Early Loves of Anne Boleyn|rating=3.5|genre=History|summary=Before her marriage to King Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn area had already long been courted by three suitorsa venue for political protest, any of whom might have become her husband - and possibly saved her from her eventual end on the scaffold. The first was her Irish cousin James Butler, later Earl of Ormond, whom she was at one time intended to marry in order to settle I didn't know more than a family dispute over spit about the title and estates of the Earldom of Ormondpeople involved on either side. After their marriage negotiations came to an end This book is practically flawless in the face of legal obstacles, she became betrothed to Henry Percy, heir to the Duke of Northumberland. With giving a little help from the scheming Cardinal Wolsey, the Duke, who had little time general browser's context for his son, insisted that any idea of marriage between them should be dismissed forthwith. Soon after this the poet Thomas Wyatt became enamoured whole season of her, but by this time there was fierce competition from his sovereign, and her destiny was sealedprotests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848684304</amazonuk>1684056993
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Caroline Moorehead 0648684806|title=Dancing to the Precipice Clara Colby: Lucie De La Tour Du Pin and the French RevolutionThe International Suffragist|author=John Holliday
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|summary=At school I remember spending a lot The path of time on Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated to the Tudors and USA. At the early Stuarts – obviously great favourites time she was just three-years-old but because of the history teacher some childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to sail with her parents and then galloping unceremoniously through the intervening years until we reached another ''meaningful'' period – the Victorian erathree brothers. The importance Instead, she remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and saw that she received a good education, both in and out of William school. She was the only child in the household and Mary her childhood was completely overlooked glorious. By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in favour of a quick mention the mid-west of the fact that William wasn't in direct line of succession United States and life was hard, as Clara was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to join the throne family. Clara would only know her mother for a few months: she was married for fifteen years, had ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and Mary had never wanted to marry him died in the first placechildbirth not long after Clara arrived. Their successorAs the eldest girl, Queen Anne I remember simply as 'tables'a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075094577X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Delgado1783784350|title=KamikazeThis Golden Fleece: HistoryA Journey Through Britain's Greatest Naval DisasterKnitted History|author=Esther Rutter|rating=4.5
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|summary=When Mongol leaderIt was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, Khubilai Khan, achieved what his Grandfather Genghis had failed writing to do in conquering China, he inherited the worldpeople she's largest d never met and preparing spreadsheets. The job frustrated her and most sophisticated navyeven her knitting did not soothe her mind. However, in attempting January was going to utilise this to expand his empire further to Java, Vietnam be a time for making changes and mainly Japan, he lost she decided that she would travel the entire armada in a few short years. New marine archeological evidence from Japan, ironically with the site discovered in the 1990s in the construction length and breadth of new defences from the weatherBritish Isles with occasional forays abroad, has raised questions on discovering and telling the traditional view that the defeat story of the two Japanese invasion forces of 1274 wool's history and how it had made and particlularly 1281 were solely due to changed the intervention of the weather and what Japanese culture claim was landscape. She'd grown up on a Kamikaze (or sheep farm in Suffolk - ''divine winda free-range child on the farm'') summoned by the Gods- and learned to spin, knit and weave from her mother and her mother's friend. This was in her blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099532581</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Baldwin1789017977|title=The KingmakerRonnie and Hilda's SistersRomance: Six Powerful Women in the Wars of the RosesTowards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams
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|summary=The interaction between three very different, Ronnie Williams was the 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 say contrastinghave been born in 1863, personalities of 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 Renaissance period sets family was quite well-to-do but disaster struck in the scene for what promises 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 be an intriguing titlewell-turned-out and this would stay with him throughout his life. In 1502 He joined the paths of Cesare Borgia, notorious son of the equally infamous Pope Alexander VI, Niccolò Machiavelli, the intellectual and diplomat, and Leonardo da Vinci, army at the time best known as a military engineer though remembered today primarily as a great artist, were destined to crosseighteen in 1942.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845951212</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Timothy W Ryback1980891117|title=Hitler's Private LibraryG Engleheart Pinxit 1805: The Books That Shaped His LifeA year in the life of George Engleheart|author=John Webley
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|genre=HistoryArt|summary=As George Engleheart was one of the fictional schoolboy hero Nigel Molesworth might have saidleading portrait miniaturists of Georgian London, 'any fule kno' that Adolf Hitler was notorious for burning bookswith a career lasting from the 1770s to the Regency era. Nevertheless he He was also an avid collector and passionate reader, as around 1200 surviving volumes once in his possession now in the Rare Book Division one of the Library of Congress, and a smaller quantity in Brown Universitymost prolific, Rhode Islandpainting nearly 5, demonstrate. Among 000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them were world literature classics, such as 'Robinson Crusoe', 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', and 'Gulliver's Travels'being of King George III). He also owned an edition Throughout most of that time he carefully recorded the collected works names of each of Shakespeare, in hand-tooled Moroccan leather with a gold-embossed eagle flanked by his initials on the spine. The Bardclients, he once said, was greatly superior and subsequently transcribed them into what is referred to Goethe and Schilleras his fee book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099532174</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Druin Burch1789016304|title=Taking the MedicineWar and Love: A family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam|author=Melanie Martin
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|summary=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 Act for 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 Abolition of city during the Slave Trade was passed in Britain in March 1807war years, but only five thousand survived and the last legal British slave ship left Africa seven months later. Other countries Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a country with liberal values who were slow resistant to follow suitGerman occupation. Everyone in Britain knew there 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 soon be resistancepushed back, and when that the abolitionist Granville Sharpe purchased land in Sierra Leone Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to 'repatriate' freed slaves, Ottobah Cugoana, a former slave living escalate in Londonthe way that it did, asked if it was possible for but initial protests melted away as the organisers became more circumspect. It's an atrocity on a fountain to send forth both sweet water and bittervast scale but made up of tens of thousands of individual tragedies.' Could the slave trade, he wondered, be abolished from West Africa - when West Africa was its source?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845951174</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Grimson1908745819|title=The Isle of Man: Portrait of a NationSurfacing|author=Kathleen Jamie
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|summary=To many of usSometimes when people suggest that you read a 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 turns out that we didn't like the Isle book. That's a rare experience. People who are sensitive to hearing a book calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, I was told why. The blurb speaks of Man is probably best known for the Tynwaldauthor considering ''an older, the annual TT motorcycle races, and as less tethered sense of herself.'' Older. Less tethered. That's not a holiday resortbad description of where I am. I must admit Add to that my knowledge love of it extended little further than the natural world, of those aspects of the poetic and lyrical thatare about style not form, and therefore found substance most of all, about connection. Of course, this book invaluablehad my name on it. In these 550 pages, profusely illustrated with photographs and maps, I imagine that few if any questions on the subject are left unansweredIt was written for me. It would have found its way to me eventually. John Grimson has lived there for nearly forty years, and as well as working with several of the island's local authorities, was active as a long-distance runner and cyclist until his early seventiesI am pleased to have it fall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709081030</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomas Asbridge0857058320|title=The Crusades: The War for Lord Of All the Holy LandDead|author=Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)|rating=4.5
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|summary=The word 'Crusades' has been misappropriated and often used in various other contexts over Lord Of All the passing years. In their original meaning they were Dead'' is a series of holy wars during journey to uncover the medieval era between the Christian author's lost ancestor's life and Muslim world, fighting death. Cercas is searching for dominion over the Holy Land between 1095 and 1291 as meaning behind his great uncle's death in the defenders of western civilization formed expeditions travelling across the face of the known world from Europe, their sole aim being to conquer and defend an isolated swathe of territory centred on JerusalemSpanish Civil War.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0743268601</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Van der Kiste|title=SonsManuel Mena, Servants and Statesmen: The Men in Queen VictoriaCercas's Life|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary=Like the first Elizabeth more books than are strictly necessary have been written about Queen Victoriagreat uncle, but John Van der Kiste has taken is the unusual step of using figure who looms large over the men in her life to illuminate some dark corners which might other wise have remained unexploredbook. Of course the most famous man in her life, husband and Prince Consort Albert isnHe died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco't 'son, servant or statesman' as promised by s forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. The question at the title centre of the this book, but he established a trend. Victoria, often regarded as a difficult woman is whether it is possible for his great uncle to please, would always have be a man in her life who would, to a greater or lesser extent, dominate herhero whilst having fought for the wrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0750937882</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Marr0008294011|title=How to Lose a Country: The Making of Modern Britain: From Queen Victoria 7 Steps from Democracy to V.E. DayDictatorship|author=Ece Temelkuran
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|summary=This book, and 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 BBC TV series which complements it, must confirm Andrew Marrquestion ''s status as one of Discuss the most entertaining and compulsive historian-cum-presenters working todayfactors which led to... '' His previous project, on postwar Britain, I agreed that she was hard to fault, right and anyone who enjoyed wasn't certain whether it was a good or bad thing that will certainly relish we didn't know what all 'this' was leading to. I think now that I do know. We are in danger of losing democracy and whilst it's a flawed system I can't think of a better one, particularly as the 'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230709427</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patrick Casey and Richard I Hale1788037812|title=For CollegeThe Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, Club & Country 1891- A History of Clifton Rugby Football Club1908|author=Brian Anderson|rating=45
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|summary=Clifton Rugby Football Club can proudly trace its history back to Originally passed in 1885, the very emergence of law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the sport nature of rugby unionhomosexuality appeared. Founded in September 1872They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as the same year that William Webb heterosexual Havelock Ellis, who is reputed to have been . Exploring the rebellious Rugby schoolboy who first ran with margins of society and studying homosexuality was common on the ballEuropean Continent, died. In realitybut barely talked about in the UK, it is highly likely that so the Webb Ellis story is something publications of a spin job on behalf these men were hugely significant – contributing to the scientific understanding of Rugby Schoolhomosexuality, although it did mean that Rugby School was able and beginning the struggle for recognition and equality, leading to impose its rules on the game at a time when most public schools had their own rules for playing versions milestone legalisation of the gamesame-sex relationships in 1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312756</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Gay1910593508|title=Modernism: The Lure of Heresy - From Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond|rating=4|genre=History|summary=It is impossible not to be impressed by the sheer scope of cultural historian Peter Gay's 2007 study of Modernism, newly released in this paperback edition. He notes in the introduction that it is not a 'comprehensive history' but rather 'a study of its rise, triumphs, and decline'. What is remarkable though, is the attempt to include the whole gamut of artistic fields in this coherent study.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099441969</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewApollo|author=John Van der Kiste|title=Jonathan Wild: Conman and Cutpurse|rating=4|genre=History|summary=Born towards the end of the seventeenth century Jonathan Wild was to become the eighteenth century's most famous criminalMatt Fitch, plying his trade in a rather curious fashion. He was born in Wolverhampton of parents described as ''mean but honest''. It seems likely that he first travelled to London as the servant of a lawyer where he was eventually to settle, leaving his wife Chris Baker and child to fend for themselves. It was whilst serving a term of imprisonment in Wood Street Compter that he mixed with the cream of London's criminal underclass and learned the rudiments of his trade.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848682190</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bonnie Greer|title=Obama MusicMike Collins|rating=35
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|summary=This incredible graphic novel is an interesting read, but unless I'm missing something, the focus of the book seems a little difficult love letter to grasp. It's best if I start with the author's intentions as set out in her Prologue. It is a mixture of tales of her own life growing up on Moon landings and the South Side, she writes, interspersed with stories and observations about Obama, linking it with passion for the musicsubject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, musicians Chris Baker and music scene, past Mike Collins. This is a story we know well and present, including hip hop, country, classical, and rock'n'roll. All because of thesethis, she notes, were heard on the President's Inauguration Dayauthors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the blanks. To them she adds These shortcuts are the only downside to the blues, gospel, soul and jazz book. If you've ever read a comic book adaptation of a film you will be familiar with the South Side, when the people began to build the great institutions slight feeling that there are scenes missing and great solidarity that enabled him to become the most powerful man on the planetdialogue has been trimmed. This is a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and still felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906558248</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Mortimer1786331047|title=1415The Race to Save the Romanovs: Henry VThe Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Year of GloryImperial Family|author=Helen Rappaport
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