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In Search of the New Woman
Book Review
In Search of the New Woman: Middle-Class Women and Work in Britain 1870-1914 by Gillian Sutherland
(Cambridge University Press), 2015187pp., £55 hard, ISBN 978-1-107-09279-2
Women increasingly demanded and gained constructive and useful roles in society with campaigns for control over property, economic independence and admission to education and to the...
In Search of the New Woman
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Britain’s Jews in the First World War
Book review
Britain’s Jews in the First World War, Paula Kitching, Amberley, 2019, 286p, £14-99. ISBN 978-1-4456-6320-3
The title of this book does not fully convey the importance of its contents and focus. It provides a variety of perspectives on the Jewish involvement in the British war effort in the Great War....
Britain’s Jews in the First World War
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Hitler’s British Isles: The Real Story of the Occupied Channel Islands
Book Review
Hitler’s British Isles: The Real Story of the Occupied Channel Islands, Duncan Barrett, Simon and Schuster, 2018, 413p, £20-00. ISBN 978-1-4711-6637-2
Having just read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Bloomsbury 2008), this very interesting book has now extended considerably my understanding of the nature of the experiences of...
Hitler’s British Isles: The Real Story of the Occupied Channel Islands
