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Old King Coal - From Rags to Riches Advantages: Packed with detail : a good social history Disadvantages: Lacks definition. Could be editorially trimmed significantly This is the first book by Catherine Bailey, a successful and award winning television producer and director with a range of critically acclaimed documentaries to her credit. A meticulously researched work, it traces the history of the Fitzwilliam family, in the earlier half of the twentieth century, when they were one of the Britain’s richest families. Their wealth was chiefly based on coal and their history is inextricably linked with the fortunes ... ...palatial Georgian gem, Wentworth House, situated five miles from Sheffield and in the heart of mining country, being surrounded by around seventy collieries, some of which they owned. With its 365 rooms, 1000 windows and five miles of corridors it remains, to this day, the largest private house in Europe. In its hay day, the staff consisted of some 300 outdoor and 85 indoor servants. With its huge reception rooms, gilded stucco pre-Adam ceilings, ... suesie 12.07.2007 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Black Diamonds: the Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty - Catherine Bailey	Degree of Information How interesting was the... How useful was it? Would you read it again? Value for money
History that Inspires Advantages: history that is accessible and entertaining, well presented Disadvantages: none except for my poor make up thanks to the woad incident ...for Boys and Girls (1906), Our Empire Story (1908), History of France (1912), History of Germany (1913) , The Story of the United States (1919, though in 1917 published in the US as This Country of Ours) and Kings and Things (1937). Each of these unabashedly mixed legend, magic, and historical fact to weave positive portraits displaying great pride for the history and achievements of these nations.It does not gloss over misdeeds either, painting ... ...ancient peoples who dwelt on our shores. She saw the people of history as just that, people, and their stories have come alive for her and fired her imagination as surely as any fairytale ever did, but burning with an intensity that cannot be quenched for contained within is the element of truth. No more are the Kings and Queens and Caesars just names that run together. She knows their avarice, their determination, their triumphs, and their setbacks. ... Shroud 26.09.2008 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Our Island Story: A History of Britain for Boys and Girls from the Romans to Queen Victoria - Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall	Degree of Information How interesting was the... How useful was it? Would you read it again? Value for money
Do you like a good ghost story? Advantages: Good to read as a precursor to the ghost tour Disadvantages: Could also act as a spoiler, too much third-person dialogue for me ...have had a fascination with the supernatural and all things weird and spooky. A few weeks ago I went on a working trip to our office in Edinburgh. My planned activities for one of the evenings that my colleague and I were there led to my decision to buy this book. A Bit About The Author Jan-Andrew Henderson, the author of this book, is the director of Black Hart Storytellers and has also written about eight other books, all on the themes of ... ...that he's about 44 (at the time of me writing this review) and that he's sceptical about ghosts and hauntings. The Book The book tells the story of the Mackenzie Poltergeist and how the poltergeist activity within Greyfriar's Cemetary is reputed to have started. Much of the story is told in the third person, but there is also included a fair amount of anecdotal evidence, both from people that have worked on the ghost tours themselves and people ... JeeanA 16.04.2006 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of The Ghost That Haunted Itself - Jan-Andrew Henderson	Degree of Information How interesting was the... How useful was it? Would you read it again? Value for money
Read this if ever really want to understand the stupidity of wa Advantages: More than just a history of D-Day Disadvantages: None This book should be required reading for presidents and prime-ministers, generals and school children the world around. Beevor has managed not only to provide a detailed factual history of the D-Day landings but also to capture the mood and spirit of the times. This is the way that history should be written. He gives a clear analysis of the competence and incompetence of the senior officers involved on both sides and the warning that he provides ... ...a dictator, having been subjected to years of propoganda might well have been an important piece of psychology that could have assisted Messrs Cheney and Bush in their thinking. The book is crammed with information, not just about troop movements, the importance of the weather and luck, but also the personal histories of the lives and deaths of the soldiers involved. One knows how the story turns out, but this is not just an another review of the ... clb-profis 24.07.2009 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful Review of D-Day: The Battle for Normandy - Antony Beevor	Degree of Information How interesting was the... How useful was it? Would you read it again? Value for money
Long overdue Advantages: Fascinating reading Disadvantages: - ...been late in coming, and a little less forceful in affect and event. Perhaps history is to blame here -- the Welsh have been only marginally protected by geography; the mountainous area was difficult terrain to conquer, but the supply lines to those mountains were relatively easy to maintain and sustain, unlike the trek to the northern reaches of Scotland or crossing the sea into Ireland, areas that (however much English history might want to contradict ... ...so fortunate. Indeed, it is a miracle that the Welsh survive. The Scots lost land, language and independence, but retained administrative and legal systems separations that preserved many aspects of nationhood. The Irish never completely lost independence. The Welsh, however, lost practically everything of nationhood, and barely sustained an independent culture. Thus, when the 'nations' of the British Isles began to re-exert their independent interpretations ... frkurt 06.09.2005 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of A History of Wales - John Davies	Degree of Information How interesting was the... How useful was it? Would you read it again? Value for money