OUHS Book Reviews

Pevsner Architectural Guides The Buildings of England Christopher Wakeling and Nikolaus Pevsner. Yale University Press. Hardback, £40.00. ISBN 9780300218350 Review by: Ruth Barbour This volume is the latest publication in a series of architectural guides, the first of...

By Dirk Booms and Peter John Higgs, British Museum Press . 2020 . ISBN 0861592220 Sicily has been a crossroads of different cultures with a history that is about three thousand years long. During antiquity, Sicily was the stepping stone between Europe and Africa as...

By Miranda Aldhouse Green, Thames & Hudson . 2016 . ISBN 9781509882205 Miranda Aldhouse-Green’s Sacred Britannia casts a huge shadow. It manages to be accessible to the casual reader who penetrates the area of Romano- British religious syncretism while adhering to...

By Adam Hochschild, Picador Classic . 2019 . ISBN 9781509882205 The Fiddle tells the story of a family who on two occasions, separated by twenty years and in two different countries suffered persecution because they were Jewish. Appropriately, I am writing about this...

By Adam Hochschild, Picador Classic . 2019 . ISBN 9781509882205 It is unusual for a history story to be accorded the lead position on the British television news. This has happened on a number of occasions in recent years following the discovery of the mortal remains,...

By Adam Hochschild, Picador Classic . 2019 . ISBN 9781509882205 This book is set mainly in central Europe and highlights the causes and some of the actions of ‘one of the most destructive conflicts in human history, [which] resulted in eight million fatalities not...

By Adam Hochschild, Picador Classic . 2019 . ISBN 9781509882205 The author, Adam Hochschild, an American journalist and historian, whose particular interest are human rights and social justice, tells a gruesome story of exploitation, cruelty and forced labour in what...

By Cathy Hunt, West MidlandHistory. £20.00. ISBN 9781905036684 Cathy Hunt is a well known Midland historian who specialises in the history of labour together with the work of women. The book is the product of extensive recent research, so recent that its publishing...

By Philippe Sands,Weidenfeld andNicholson.Hardback, £20 ISBN 9781474608121 As a title, ‘The Ratline’ is a slight misnomer, as the escape route for Nazi fugitives takes up only a minor part of the book — and much of that is tangential, as the main character never...

By Simon Elliott, Pen & Sword Books Ltd, ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1526765721, ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1526765727 The unexplained disappearance of the legio IX Hispana (also known as the Ninth) from historical records around the second century AD has caught the public imagination...