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Books reviewed: Amanda Vickery (ed.), Women, Privilege and Power: British Politics, 1750 to the Present Jane Moody, Illegitimate Theatre in London, 1770–1840 Steve Poole, The Politics of Regicide in England 1760–1850: Troublesome Subjects Gordon Corrigan, Wellington: A Military Life George K. Behlmer and Fred M. Leventhal (ed.), Singular Continuities: Tradition, Nostalgia, and Identity in Modern British Culture Michael H. Shirley and Todd E. A. Larson (ed.), Splendidly Victorian: Essays in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century British History in Honour of Walter L. Arnstein Martin Hewitt (ed.), An Age of Equipoise? Reassessing Mid-Victorian Britain Robert Sloan, William Smith O’ Brien and the Young Ireland Rebellion of 1848 K. D. M. Snell and Paul S. Ell, Rival Jerusalems. The Geography of Victorian Religion E. J. T. Collins (ed.), The Agrarian History of England and Wales Volume 7: 1850–1914 Trevor Royle, Crimea: The Great Crimean War 1854–1856 Edwin Jaggard (ed.), Liberalism in West Cornwall: The 1868 Election Papers of A. Pendarves Vivian, M.P. Bruce L. Kinzer, England’s Disgrace? J. S. Mill and the Irish Question John K. Walton, Blackpool Archie Hunter, A Life of Sir John Eldon Gorst: Disraeli’s Awkward Disciple Mary Lynn Stewart, For Health and Beauty: Physical Culture for Frenchwomen, 1880s–1930s Rudy Koshar, From Monuments to Traces: Artefacts of German Memory, 1870–1990 Alastair Thompson, Left Liberals, the State, and Popular Politics in Wilhelmine Germany Annika Mombauer, Helmuth von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War John Mosier, The Myth of the Great War: A New Military History of World War One Andrew Britton, Monetary Regimes of the Twentieth Century David Kynaston, The City of London. Volume 3, Illusions of Gold 1914–1945 Enda Delaney, Demography, State and Society: Irish Migration to Britain, 1921–1971 Kay Chadwick (ed.), Catholicism, Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century France Claire Langhamer, Women’s Leisure in England, 1920–60 Andrew Shennan, The Fall of France, 1940 Ian Dear and M. R. D. Foot (ed.), The Oxford Companion to World War II Malcolm Smith, Britain and 1940: History, Myth and Popular Memory Martin Conway and José Gotovitch (ed.), Europe in Exile, 1940–45: European Exile Communities in Britain Klaus Larres and Ann Lane (ed.), The Cold War Hanna Schissler (ed.), The Miracle Years: A Cultural History of West Germany 1949–1968 Peter B. Johnson, Reuter Reporter among the Communists, 1958–59. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]