Sex, Work and Politics: Women in Britain 1780-1945, Richard Brown, Authoring History, second edition, 2014, 616 pp. ISBN 1500143529 This second extended edition published a mere two years after the first edition of 2012 indicates not only the success of the first edition but also the continuing proliferation of books...

Women in the Second World War, Neil R. Storey and Molly Housego, Shire Publications, 2011, paperback, £6.99 ISBN 9780747808121 This is another slim, attractively produced, modestly priced, informative and well-illustrated addition to the Shire Library focusing upon the role of women in the Second World War, which by 1943 included...

Working Lives. The forgotten voices of Britain's post-war working class, David Hall, Bantam Press, 2012, hardback, pp. 391, £25.00 ISBN 9780593065327 This remarkable collection of oral testimonies drawn from hundreds of hours of first-hand interviews collected by an accomplished television producer and biographer of the steeplejack and industrial commentator Fred...

Working-class Lives in Edwardian Harrogate, Paul Jennings, Palatine Books, 2022, 264p, £14.99. ISBN 978-1-910837-37-5. Instinctively most people would identify Harrogate in modern times as a rather well-built and prosperous tourist centre. Of course, it is more than that because the real impetus to its history was its emergence as a...

Peter N. Stearns, World History: the basics, Routledge, 2011, paperback, 202 pp, £11.99, ISBN 9780415582759This pocket-sized introduction to world history is part of a series of basic introductions to a wide range of subjects ranging from acting to world music. The cover blurb declaring the novelty of the approach asserts...

Young Henry: The Rise of Henry VIII, Robert Hutchinson (Phoenix, London, 2012, first published in hardback (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2011) xii, 356 pp., paperback, £9.99, ISBN 978 0 7538 2771 0 Robert Hutchinson, OBE, has a doctorate in archaeology and is an associate tutor in church history at the University...

‘You are Legend’: The Welsh Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War, Graham Davies, Welsh Academic Press, 2018, 224p, £19-99. ISBN 978-1-86057-1305 ‘You are legend’ is a phrase from the farewell speech by La Pasionaria in 1938 when the International Brigade withdrew from the Spanish Civil War. Amongst the British contingent...