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Sex and Sexuality in Tudor England
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(reviewed together with Sex, Love & Marriage in the Elizabethan Age by R. E. Pritchard) I have reviewed these two books together as ...Read Review
Sex, Love and Marriage in the Elizabethan Age
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(reviewed together with Sex and Sexuality in Tudor England by Carol McGrath) I have reviewed these two books together as their contents clearly ...Read Review
Sister Sleuths: Female Detectives in Britain (Trailblazing Women)
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Crime historian Nell Darby has pulled together a wonderful resource for anyone interested in the history of female detectives. Although the title specifies “...Read Review
Jane Austen’s Cousin: The Outlandish Countess de Feuillide
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The subtitle of this book is “The Outlandish Countess de Feuillide,” and outlandish she was to her neighbors in the Austens’ home area. ...Read Review
The Irish War of Independence and Civil War (Irish Perspectives)
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If you are looking for an overview of the ‘Troubles’ which led to Irish independence in 1921 and the subsequent civil war, this is ...Read Review
Sophia – Mother of Kings: The Finest Queen Britain Never Had
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Catherine Curzon is a royal historian who has written several books on Georgian royalty and its often-scandalous courts. Her latest foray into this ...Read Review
The Mother of the Brontës: When Maria Met Patrick
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Journalist Sharon Wright brings her keen reporter’s eye to this vibrant biography of Maria Branwell, the mother of literary lionesses Charlotte, Anne, ...Read Review
1920: A Year of Global Turmoil
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2020 is the 100th anniversary of – of what? 1920 is not a memorable date. David Charlwood describes the year as ‘both world-changing and uneventful’. We ...Read Review
Creating Hitler’s Germany: The Birth of Extremism
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How did it happen? This must be the greatest question of the 20th century. How did a technologically advanced, highly educated, European parliamentary ...Read Review
