Britain + British history

Book Reviews

• Paul Addison, Jeremy A. Crang: The Burning Blue
  A New History of the Battle of Britain
• Stephen Brooke: Reform and Reconstruction
  Britain after the war, 1945-51
• Steve Bruce: God is Dead
  Secularization in the West
• Marilyn Butler: Burke, Paine, Godwin and the Revolution Controversy
  - English political writing from the end of the 18th century
• David Cannadine: Trafalgar in History
  A Battle and its Afterlife
• Linda Colley: Captives
  Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850
• Alan Cooper: Bridges, Law and Power in Medieval England, 700-1400
  - bridgework obligations and the power of kings
• Brian Golding: Conquest and Colonisation*
  The Normans in Britain, 1066-1100
• Robert Graves: Wife to Mr. Milton
  - a novel of the English Civil War
• Henry Green: Caught*
  - a 1943 novel of firefighters in the London Blitz
• David Harrison: The Bridges of Medieval England*
  Transport and Society 400-1800
• Christopher Hill: The Century of Revolution: 1603-1714*
  - a broad-ranging history of 17th century England
• Eric Hobsbawm, George Rudé: Captain Swing*
  - the 'little people' assert themselves; English agrarian unrest in 1830
• Richard Hogg: An Introduction to Old English
  - a historical account, setting the language in context
• W.G. Hoskins: English Landscapes*
  - decoding the historical layers in rural landscapes
• Robert K. Massie: Dreadnought
  Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War
• Garrett Mattingly: The Defeat of the Spanish Armada*
  - a popular account of the dramatic events of 1587 and 1588
• George Orwell: The Road to Wigan Pier
  - mining towns, class and socialism in 1930s Britain
• C. Northcote Parkinson: Britannia Rules
  The Classic Age of Naval History 1793-1815
• Daniel Pool: What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew
  From Fox Hunting to Whist - the Facts of Daily Life in 19th-Century England
• Barbara Pym: A Few Green Leaves
  - a delicately painted English village miniature
• John Rule: Cornish Cases
  Essays in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Social History
• Josephine Tey: The Daughter of Time
  - a policeman in hospital takes up the case of Richard III
• Nicholas Tracy: Manila Ransomed
  The British Assault on Manila in the Seven Years War
• Alison Weir: The Princes in the Tower
  - whodunnit: Richard III or Henry VII?
• Connie Willis: Doomsday Book
  - parallel plagues in Oxford in 1348 and 2054