Edward James
A History of Women in Medicine: From Physicians to Witches?
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This is not a book about women in the medical profession. It goes much further back to the pagan Anglo-Saxons and beyond. The ...Read Review
Exploring the Lives of Women, 1558-1837
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The Women’s Studies Group 1558-1837 was formed thirty years ago, and this collection of thirteen essays celebrates the anniversary. The Group brings ...Read Review
Margaret Tudor: The Life of Henry VIII’s Sister
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None of the Tudor royal family has lacked attention from historians and novelists, but perhaps the one who has attracted the least coverage ...Read Review
Pirates and Privateers in the 18th Century: The Final Flourish
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Nobody speaks of the Golden Age of Slavery or of Witch Hunting or Heretic Burning, but the equally unpleasant practice of piracy and ...Read Review
Convicts in the Colonies: Transportation Tales from Britain to Australia
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The most interesting part of Convicts in the Colonies is the section about the English and Irish convicts who were sentenced to be ...Read Review
Rome: A History in Seven Sackings
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Rome has been sacked more than seven times in its long history. The seven ‘sackings’ chosen by Matthew Kneale for this book include ...Read Review
Death March Escape: The Remarkable Story of a Man Who Twice Escaped the Nazi Holocaust
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Although Death March Escape is a true-life story, it is structured like many historical novels in two time streams. The ‘historic’ stream concerns ...Read Review
The Unbeliever
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The Unbeliever is fictionalised history rather than historical fiction. It is based closely on the real-life story of a Bulgarian diplomat who was ...Read Review
The Battle for England
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I remember when I was a schoolboy reading a passage from Churchill’s war memoirs in which he half-regretted that Hitler had never ...Read Review
Night Flight to Paris
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David Gilman is best known as the author of the Master of War series, following the blood-drenched adventures of an English mercenary soldier ...Read Review