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The History Girls: Reviews
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Please note: we are getting an enormous number of requests to review books; if you don't hear back within a month, please understand that we are not a review site primarily and have to strike a balance. We will certainly get back to you if we think we can fit in a review. Watch this space for future reviews by The History Girls of works of historical fiction and non-fiction. Here are links to reviews we have carried on this site so far:. MY LIFE IN HOUSES by Margaret Forster. Reviewed. LIONHEART by Stewa...
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The History Girls: Australia (and my family) from the 1920s - Gillian Polack
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Sunday, 2 August 2015. Australia (and my family) from the 1920s - Gillian Polack. The anniversary of my father’s death is coming up. I will light a candle in his memory and I will tell bad jokes so that his sense of humour is not forgotten. I will miss him, as I always do. This year is different. Dad died in 1988, but a whole group of his friends died this year, in their early 90s. The last of his generation is fading. Victorian rural house, 1970s. I was born in the year between the Baby Boom and the nex...
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The History Girls: News
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Imogen Robertson has been made Chair of the Historical Writers' Association. Many congratulations to her. Tany Landman's novel Buffalo Soldier. Has won the 2015 CILIP Carnegie Medal. For a book for young people. Mary Hoffman was the Guest Editor for Mslexia 66, the Summer issue covering June, July and August. She was not allowed to make it all about History but did manage to interview Louisa Young. Look out for the edition from 1st June. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Search the History Girls. The History G...
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The History Girls: Atticus Finch, by Leslie Wilson
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Thursday, 23 July 2015. Atticus Finch, by Leslie Wilson. So: it's out at last, the long-awaited 'sequel' (though it was actually the precursor) of the beloved 'To Kill a Mockingbird.' I can't have been the only one who, when she first read that 'Go Set a Watchman' dealt with the later life of Scout and Atticus Finch, imagined them both marching forward into the '50s with anti-racist banners waving. How naïve of me! Because even 'Mockingbird', when I read it, left me uneasy about Atticus's views. And Scou...
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The History Girls: Josa Young's 'Sail Upon the Land' by Kate Lord Brown
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Friday, 22 May 2015. Josa Young's 'Sail Upon the Land' by Kate Lord Brown. And, in the spiced Indian air, by night,. Full often hath she gossip'd by my side,. And sat with me on Neptune's yellow sands,. Marking the embarked traders on the flood,. When we have laugh'd to see the sails conceive. And grow big-bellied with the wanton wind;. Which she, with pretty and with swimming gait. Following,- her womb then rich with my young squire,-. Would imitate, and sail upon the land,. A House in Ooty, India.
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The History Girls: Numinous by Caroline Lawrence
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Sunday, 9 August 2015. Numinous by Caroline Lawrence. Adj) having a strong religious or spiritual quality; indicating or suggesting the presence of a divinity. Eg “the strange, numinous beauty of this ancient landmark”. Sunset at Lake Tahoe, California. I am fascinated by the numinous, that is to say by places or incidents where people have had a positive experience of something spiritual or supernatural without looking for it. Sacre Coeur at Night. Where Mary the mother of Jesus was supposed to have spe...
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The History Girls: Fight for the Right - Emily Davison and the Internet - Celia Rees
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Tuesday, 18 March 2014. Fight for the Right - Emily Davison and the Internet - Celia Rees. Bossy Girls, Cranky Ladies, Daughters of Time? The actual ticket is in the collection of the Women's Library. Which was in the process of moving from its historic home in Aldgate to LSE amid some controversy Future of Women's Library. Emily Davison throws herself under the kings horse. Read Return to Victoria. Interview in the Overflowing Library. Posted by Celia Rees. Cranky Ladies of History. I was writing a book...
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The History Girls: Mouths of Truth - Michelle Lovric
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Monday, 10 August 2015. Mouths of Truth - Michelle Lovric. It is so hot in Venice that the cats are melting. The usual silly season stories abound in the city's press. But one story caught my eye this week, seeming more profound: the. Newspaper reported on the opening of a new ‘. This translates as a counter for denouncing people who are working ‘. Venice’s local government estimates that there are 20,000 living. In the city. Their number includes plumbers, hairdressers, and taxi drivers. Bocche di Leone,.
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The History Girls: The Vincent Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam: Sue Purkiss
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Saturday, 16 May 2015. The Vincent Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam: Sue Purkiss. Vincent Van Gogh must be one of the best-known and most popular painters of them all. Who wouldn’t recognise his painting of sunflowers? Or the self-portrait with the bandaged ear? Or the picture of a bedroom in his house in Arles? Parts of his life story are almost equally well-known: the story behind that bandaged ear, for instance. The interior of the museum. Montmarte: windmills and allotments. He rented four rooms in what be...
