Britain + British history

Book Reviews

• Paul Addison, Jeremy A. Crang: The Burning Blue
  A New History of the Battle of Britain
• William Albert: The Turnpike Road System in England 1663-1840
  - development, administration, finance; repair and transport costs
• Stephen Brooke: Reform and Reconstruction
  Britain after the war, 1945-51
• 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
• Geoff Coyle: The Riches Beneath Our Feet
  How Mining Shaped Britain
• Maureen Dillon: Artificial Sunshine
  A Social History of Domestic Lighting
• Menna Gallie: Strike for a Kingdom
  - a mystery set in a Welsh mining village in 1926
• Peter Gaunt: Oliver Cromwell
  - a brief illustrated biography
• 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
• Michael Hampson: Last Rites
  The End of the Church of England
• 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
• Anthony Kenny, Robert Kenny: Can Oxford be Improved?
  A View from the Dreaming Spires and the Satanic Mills
• David Kynaston: Austerity Britain, 1945-1951
  - a social history of post-war Britain
• Donald A. Low: The Regency Underworld
  - the dark side of London, 1800-1830
• 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
• Jan Morris: Oxford
  - a potpourri of information about the town and university
• François Neveux: A Brief History of the Normans
  The Conquests that Changed the Face of Europe
• George Orwell: The Road to Wigan Pier
  - mining towns, class and socialism in 1930s Britain
• Mike Parker: Map Addict
  A Tale of Obsession, Fudge and the Ordnance Survey
• C. Northcote Parkinson: Britannia Rules
  The Classic Age of Naval History 1793-1815
• Iain Pears: An Instance of the Fingerpost*
  - murder, espionage and controversy in Restoration Oxford
• Daniel Pool: What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew
  From Fox Hunting to Whist - the Facts of Daily Life in 19th-Century England
• Francis Pryor: The Making of the British Landscape*
  How We Have Transformed the Land, from Prehistory to Today
• Barbara Pym: A Few Green Leaves
  - a delicately painted English village miniature
• Oliver Rackham: The History of the Countryside*
  The classic history of Britain's landscape, flora and fauna
• John Rule: Cornish Cases
  Essays in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Social History
• W.B. Stephens: Education in Britain 1750-1914
  - elementary, secondary and higher education; literacy and science
• Josephine Tey: The Daughter of Time
  - a policeman in hospital takes up the case of Richard III
• Kate Tiller, Giles Darkes: An Historical Atlas of Oxfordshire
  - from prehistory to the present
• Nicholas Tracy: Manila Ransomed
  The British Assault on Manila in the Seven Years War
• John Waller: The Real Oliver Twist
  Robert Blincoe: A Life That Illuminates a Violent Age
• 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

See also: Ireland