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[[Category:New Reviews|History]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- Woolf -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Woolf_Great.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1910985880?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1910985880]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Great Horizon: 50 Tales of Exploration by Jo Woolf]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]], [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] Jo Woolf has compiled a brilliant set of fifty short insights into the lives and achievements of some amazingly brave people. Their fearless journeys have helped us unlock many of the mysteries of the wildest parts of our world, and also given us an understanding of what it is like to be faced with the most terrible conditions and still have the determination and grit to carry on. This book could be viewed as a taster which encourages us to seek out and read more about some of the most iconic explorers. Their stories are pretty incredible and Woolf does them justice. [[The Great Horizon: 50 Tales of Exploration by Jo Woolf|Full Review]] <!-- Hailstone -->|-Frontpage| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|1785633457[[image:Hailstone_Berlin.jpg|left|linktitle=httpsCharging Around://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445672901?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445672901]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Berlin in Exploring the Cold War: 1959 to 1966 Edges of England by Allan Hailstone]]===Electric Car[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]], [[:Category:Travel|Travel]] ''Berlin in the Cold War: 1959-1966'' contains almost 200 photographs taken by author / photographer Allan Hailstone in his visits to the city during this period. The images provide an insight into the changing nature of the divide between East and West Berlin and a glimpse into life in the city during the Cold War. [[Berlin in the Cold War: 1959 to 1966 by Allan Hailstone|Full Review]] <!-- Moorehead -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Clive Wilkinson[[image:Moorehead_Russian.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445667320?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445667320]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Travel===[[The Russian Revolution by Alan Moorehead]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]] The author was writing from Clive Wilkinson has a slightly different stance from most other historians. Only a decade after the end history of the Second World War, he was basing his account on the premise that the Nazis' rise to power in Germany was connected travelling by unconventional means with the heritage that Lenin had left behind, and that without Stalin's assurances of support Hitler would never have dared to plunge the world into such a devastating global conflictpreference for slow travel. It was his belief that America's post-war commitments in Europe and the Far East, and other post-1945 developments, could also be traced back to the events of 1917. Much of As he neared his material came from German archives which were saved from destruction when the Third Reich was on eightieth birthday the brink idea of collapse. These documents that the German government would have kept private had they won the war provided full detail on exploring the attempts edges of their forebears to pave the way for chaos and revolution England in their Asiatic neighbour.[[The Russian Revolution by Alan Moorehead|Full Review]] <!-- Mourby -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Mourby_Roomsan electric car was not totally outrageous.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785782754?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785782754]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Rooms with a View: The Secret Life of Great Hotels by Adrian Mourby]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:History|History]] Adrian Mourby has given us a flying visit to each of fifty grand hotels, from fourteen regions of the world, with the hotels in each section being arranged chronologically rather than by regionIn fact, which helps to give something of an overall picture. So what makes a hotel 'grand'? The first hotel to call itself 'grand' was in covent Garden in 1774 and it ushered in the beginning of a period when a hotel would should be a lifestyle choice rather than a refuge pleasant holiday for those without friends Clive and family conveniently nearby. The hotels we visit all began life in different circumstances and each faced a different set of challenges. We begin in the Americas, move to the United Kingdomhis wife, circumnavigate Europe, briefly visit Russia and Turkey then northern Africa, India and Asia. AustraliaJoan, shouldn't it seems, does not go for the grand. [[Rooms with a View: The Secret Life of Great Hotels by Adrian Mourby|Full Review]] <!-- Anderson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Anderson_Fantasyland.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785038656?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785038656]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]], [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] Fantasyland covers the history of America from 1517 to 2017 in awesome detail. Covering five centuries of tempestuous history, Andersen paints the conjuring of America in vivid relief. Discussing everything from pilgrims to politicians, the exhilarating gold rush to alternative facts, seminal episodes are explored in forensic detail with razor sharp wit. [[Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen|Full Review]]<br> <br> <!-- Way -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Way_Tea.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1445670011?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1445670011]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Tea Gardens (Britain's Heritage Series) by Twigs Way]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]], [[:Category:History|History]] Tea Gardens really began in London in the late 18th century: a trip to Kings Cross or St Pancras was effectively a trip to the country in those days. Men had their coffee houses, but they were not places where women could or would be seen. Tea was introduced to England in the 17th century but it was not until 1784 that the high duty was reduced from 119% to 12½% and tea became the drink of choice for the nation. Until then the working classes had been fuelled largely by cheap gin. Only, where would this beverage be drunk? One answer was the pleasure gardens where the fashionable went to see and be seen: by the mid 1600s tea was also being served in places such as Ranelagh Gardens. [[Tea Gardens (Britain's Heritage Series) by Twigs Way|Full Review]] <!-- Stewart -->|-Frontpage| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|B09BLBP3P8[[image:Stewart_Marches.jpg|left|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0099581892?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0099581892]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Marches by Rory Stewart]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:History|History]] The Observer quote on the front of the paperback edition of StewartNeville Chamberlain's latest book observes ''This is travel writing at its finest.'' Perhaps, but to call it travel writing is to totally under-sell it. This is erudition at its finest. Stewart has the background to do thisWar: he had an international upbringing and followed his father in both the Army and the Foreign Office, and then (to his father's, bemusement, shall we say) became an MP. Oh, and he walked 6How Great Britain Opposed Hitler,000 miles across Afghanistan in 2002. A walk along the Scottish borders should be a doddle by comparison. [[The Marches by Rory Stewart|Full Review]] <!-- Parker -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Parker_50.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1784937908?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag1939-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1784937908]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[50 Things You Should Know About the Vikings by Philip Parker]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:History|History]] The Vikings have got a lot to own up to. A huge DNA study in 2014 was the first thing that proved to the Orkney residents that they had Viking blood in their veins – they had been insisting it was that of the Irish. The Vikings it was that forced our English king's army to march from London to Yorkshire to kill off one invasion, only to spend the next fortnight schlepping back to Hastings to try and fend off another – and the Normans had the same Norse origin as the first lot, hence the name. There is a Thames Valley village just outside Henley – ie pretty damned far from the coast – that has a Viking longship on its signpost. Yes, they got to a lot of places, from Greenland to Kiev, from Murmansk to Turkey and the Med, and their misaligned history is well worth visiting – particularly on these pages. [[50 Things You Should Know About the Vikings by Philip Parker|Full Review]] |} {{newreview1940|author= Philip Matyszak|title=24 Hours in Ancient RomeFrederic Seager

|summary= I've never been that interested in Ancient RomeReceived wisdom and simplified narrative often lead to misconceptions about history. Blame my teachers, or our ohOne such is the scrubbing from the popular imagination of the early days of World War II from 1939-so-dry visits to Roman villas with their earnest interpretation panels40, or perhaps I just daydreamed through all the interesting bits… Somehow I entered adulthood with known as the impression that all Romans were bloodthirsty and hedonistic heathens with little to recommend them. ''Mea culpaPhoney War''. We remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, you might say. So when my eye fell upon Philip Matyszak's ''24 Hours in Ancient Rome''war breaking out, and its claim to introduce readers Churchill coming in to save the real Ancient Rome by examining the lives of ordinary people, I decided it was high day. Very little time to update my education. And the lovely artwork is spent on the front cover made this period in cultural reflections and yet, as Frederic Seager argues in this book all , it was of vital significance in how the more appealingwar played out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782438564</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sharon Bennett Connolly3756228711|title= Heroines of the Medieval WorldCDC: The happy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Hans Bodmer|rating= 54|genre= History|summary= Many women in medieval times left their mark on ''The history, but as a rule they have been neglected by biographers and historians as there of the development of IT could fill books of several hundred pages.'' Author Hans Bodmer is too little surviving information for them to have even brief biographies to themselvesquite right about that. Ms Connolly He has adopted an enterprising solution chosen to tell us about the short, but explosive, history of the problem by writing Control Data Company, CDC, for whom he worked. It's a general account on fascinating tale, told in a broadly thematic basismixture of technological summary and wry anecdote.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445662647</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Nathen AminJeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=The House of Beaufort: The Bastard Line that Captured the CrownFritz and Kurt|rating= 4|genre= HistoryConfident Readers|summary= The family name We start with the pair of Beaufort played a major part brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in British history during 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the fourteenth synagogue choir and fifteenth centuriesat a vocational school. It therefore seems remarkable that little Kurt has been written about 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 until 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 appearance 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 book.could come about…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445647648</amazonuk>024156574X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Josh DeanJohn Henry Phillips|title=The Taking of K-129: The Most Daring Covert Operation in HistorySearch

|summary=In February 1968 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 fair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thing. This book is a case of the Soviet nuclear missile submarine K-129 left latter, as our author promises to locate the port topic of Petropavlovsk the titular 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's underwater, when he cannot dive. Latching on to a particular D-Day veteran through helping the Kamchatka peninsula with heroic old man's visit back to France, our author has promised to find the landing craft that delivered him to Normandy, and that he was lucky to survive when it sank from beneath him. The secondary aim is to erect a crew memorial to everyone else aboard, the vast majority of 98 submarinerswhom perished. Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|isbn=1472146182}}{{Frontpage|isbn= B09F4CTKJR|title= Flights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer|rating=4. The captain 5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=It'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 executive officers were experienced: joined the only factor giving cause for concern 17 Aero Squadron. This company was that the crew had only recently returned first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, the first to be attached to base the RAF and were expecting the first to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in active combat. But before that can happen, Petrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0578761718|title=The Inspiring History of a longer break and were only back at sea because two sister ships had experienced mechanical problems and were unfit for combat controlsSpecial Relationship|author=Nancy Carver|rating=4. 5|genre=History|summary=The Division Commander complained that church of St Mary Aldermanbuy had existed in the decision City of London from at least 1181, when it was cruel and potentially recklessfirst mentioned in records. Sadly, He would be proved right - but not publicly - as K-129 went down with all hands the original church was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in March 19681666. It was rebuilt in Portland stone from a while before design by Sir Christopher Wren soon after the fire and then survived for centuries until World War II, when it was again ruined by bombs during the sSoviet navy realised Blitz. But that it had lost one wasn't the end of its submarines story: after a phenomenal fundraising effort, the stones from the church's walls were transported to Fulton, Missouri. There, in the grounds of Westminster College, the church was rebuilt and despite an extensive search they couldn't find ittoday serves as a memorial to Winston Churchill.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445674742</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma Kay1784385166|title=Vintage KitchenaliaThe Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History of Nazi Germany|author=Roger Moorhouse|rating=3.5

|summary=Over What is the half century and more first image that I've been preparing meals on comes to mind when you think of the Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The gate to a regular basis Iconcentration camp? None of these are comfortable images but they are emblematic of the Third Reich've seen food preparation move s fascist regime in all its iniquity. But some objects and images from being just something that time may be less familiar to you did. In this short volume, Roger Moorhouse has attempted to an obsession akin to a religionillustrate the period of the Third Reich through one hundred of its material artefacts. }}{{Frontpage|author=Lun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title=Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes|rating=4. My first kitchen had nothing in 5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=I never really followed the way events of luxury - Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was there to make meals as nutritiously playing out – someone in the second half of their teens 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 economically as possible: my current kitchen is not ''quite'' state the birth of the artTank Man image, but itI didn's equipped to t know how the area had long been a high standard venue for political protest, and is I didn't know more than a pleasure to work inspit about the people involved on either side. But what of all the equipment which went before, which paved the way to what we have now? Emma Kay This book is going to give you practically flawless in giving a quick trip through general browser's context for the historywhole season of protests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445657511</amazonuk>1684056993

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martyn Beardsley0648684806|title= Waterloo Voices 1815Clara Colby: The Battle at First HandInternational Suffragist|author=John Holliday|rating= 4.5|genre= HistoryBiography|summary= The battle path 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 Waterloosome childhood ailment, she wasn't allowed to sail with her parents and three brothers. Instead, fought she remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and saw that she received a midsummer day good education, both in and out of school. She was the only child in the household and her childhood was glorious. By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the mid-west of the 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 muddy field rude awakening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1783784350|title=This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther Rutter|rating=5|genre=History|summary=It was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in Belgiumher office job, brought an end writing to two decades of war in Europepeople she'd never met and preparing spreadsheets. The job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. As one of January was going to be a time for making changes and she decided that she would travel the pivotal events length and breadth of the nineteenth centuryBritish Isles with occasional forays abroad, discovering and telling the story of wool's history and how it has inevitably been had made and changed the focus of many accounts over landscape. She'd grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - '' a free-range child on the last two hundred yearsfarm'' - and learned to spin, knit and weave from her mother and her mother's friend. This was in her blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445660164</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Rutherford1789017977|title=Landscape GardensRonnie and Hilda's Romance: Towards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy Williams

|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 all. As luck would have it I then saw Hampton Court war years, but only five thousand survived and it was official: I was off big gardens. It would Martin could not understand how this could be many years before I revised my opinion. On a trip allowed to Harewood House it was too hot happen in a day country with liberal values who were resistant to be corralled into German occupation. Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the house, so I wandered Germans might reach the gardens and found city were convinced that they were delightful. I felt uplifted. Then a cricket match at Stowe gave me would soon be pushed back, that the opportunity Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to walk escalate in the grounds for over an hourway that it did, but initial protests melted away as the organisers became more circumspect. I was completely won over and a devotee of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown. Sarah RutherfordIt's ''Landscape Gardens'' was an opportunity to put him in contextatrocity on a vast scale but made up of tens of thousands of individual tragedies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445669935</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stuart Maconie1908745819|title= Long Road From JarrowSurfacing|author=Kathleen Jamie|rating= 5|genre= Travel History|summary= I cancelled my Sometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book, they tell you ''Country Walkingthis one has your name on it'' magazine subscription about a year ago and . 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 only thing I miss is Stuart Maconiebook. That's columna rare experience. His down-People who are sensitive to-earth approach and sharp wit belie an equally sharp intellect and hearing a soul more sensitive than he might be willing to admitbook calling your name, rarely get it wrong. Let's be honest, thoughIn this case, I picked this one up because was told why. The blurb speaks of someone elsethe author considering ''s reviewan older, in which I spotted names like Ferryhill and Newton Aycliffeless tethered sense of herself. '' Places Older. Less tethered. That's not a bad description of where I grew up inam. Like Maconie I have no connection (Add to that I know my love of the natural world, of those aspects of) to the Jarrow Crusade but when he talks poetic and lyrical that are about it being ''a whole matrix style not form, and substance most of events reducible to one word like Aberfanall, Hillsboroughabout connection. Of course, or Orgreave'' then somehow this book had my name on it does become part of my history too. Tangentially, at leastIt was written for me. It would have found its way to me eventually. I am pleased to have it fall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785030531</amazonuk>

{{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)

|genre=CookeryHistory|summary=In 1745 a Spanish friary cook, Juan Altamiras, published ''Lord Of All the first edition of his Dead''New Art of Cookery, Drawn From is a journey to uncover the School of Economic Experienceauthor's lost ancestor's life and death. It contained more than two hundred recipes Cercas is searching for meat, poultry, game, salted and fresh fish, vegetables and dessertsthe meaning behind his great uncle's death in the Spanish Civil War. The style was informalManuel Mena, chatty and humorous on occasions and it was aimedCercas' great uncle, not at those is the figure who could afford to cook on a grand scale, but at those with more modest budgets, who sometimes needed to cook for looms large numbersover the book. Whilst the ingredients were - He died relatively young whilst fighting for the most part - modestly priced there is a stress Francisco Franco's forces. Cercas ruminates on the careful combination of flavours and aromaswhy his uncle fought for this dictator. Spices are used conservatively and The question at the bluntness centre of some Moorish cooking this book is eschewed in favour of something much more subtle and we see influences from Altamiras' own region, Aragon, whether it is possible for his great uncle to be a hero whilst having fought for the Iberian court and the New Worldwrong side.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1442279419</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Susan Duxbury-Neumann0008294011|title= What Have the Germans Ever Done for Us?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 History level history students when faced with the question ''Discuss the factors which led to...'' I agreed that she was right and wasn't certain whether it was a good or bad thing that 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 German Population 'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1788037812|title=The Fraternity of Great Britainthe Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual 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>

{{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>

{{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

|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>