This very readable book gives a balanced account of the Wars of the Roses and the choices made by the participants in this drawn out conflict that led to the downfall of the players in this unequal marriage. Read the full review [link=http://www.ladyjanegrey.info/?p=14390]here[/link]
Lady Jane Grey Reference Guide, Tamise Hills

All six chapters include personal stories of those people caught up in the various attacks, and are a powerful testament to the indiscriminate effect of bombing of towns and cities in war time. The use of area bombing by all the main nations involved in the Second World War remains a controversial issue. This book does not touch on the political aspects, but provides a very useful commentary on the subject in relation to one city, and the people who lived and worked there.
British Military History, Rob Palmer

This is a good handbook for those researching their Catholic ancestors as well as anyone wanting a wider introduction to the history of Roman Catholicism.
Bristol & Avon FHS

This selection of essays, edited by John Gibney, is the first instalment of a collaboration between Pen and Sword History and the History Ireland magazine. Its focus is the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s but it very successfully provides a much wider perspective. There is a tendency in Britain to see the crisis in Ireland as being a result of an underclass having been compelled to consume a less than satisfactory food source which, by the natural intervention of potato blight, suddenly became unavailable. However it becomes clear that, since the introduction of the potato to Europe over two centuries earlier, the potato had been widely regarded as a very nutritious, flexible and acceptable food source. Indeed it is argued that the potato was such a valuable source of nutrition that babies were weaned on it at a very early age and the early cessation of extended lactation amongst women removed the inherent benefits of associated contraception, thereby being a factor in the rapid population.. Read more
The Historian

The author charts the journey of criminals from court to colony during the eighty years of transportation from Britain to the Australian colonies. The biographies she presents show the variety of causes for transportation, the conditions in which people were kept before and during transportation, and the different outcomes for transportees. Some did well in Australia becoming wealthy and well-known once they received their freedom, but most lived in obscurity, or were in and out of the penal system as they may have, had they stayed in Britain. I enjoyed this book and found the stories very affecting. I also enjoyed the detailed descriptions of life in prison, hulks, ships, penal colony and free life in colonial Australia.
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