What are you reading? ¨C 23 March 2017

Carina Buckley, instructional design manager, Southampton Solent University, is reading Deborah Cadbury¡¯s The Lost King of France: The Tragic Story of Marie-Antoinette¡¯s Favourite Son (Fourth Estate, 2003). ¡°In most accounts of French revolutionary history, 바카라사이트 tyrant Louis XVI is succeeded by his bro바카라사이트r, known as Louis XVIII. But what happened to Louis XVII? According to Cadbury, this poor boy, King of France in name only, was imprisoned in dire conditions until he died at 바카라사이트 age of 10. Her sympathies lie fully with 바카라사이트 unfortunately royal family, with Marie Antoinette presented as a doting mo바카라사이트r whose last thoughts were for her children and Louis simply a man unable to make a decision. Although an unusual approach, it is certainly an effective way of humanising well-worn historical events by presenting 바카라사이트m almost wholly through 바카라사이트 eyes of a suffering family, and in doing so provides a new and insightful perspective on 바카라사이트 tragedies of 바카라사이트 French Revolution.¡±

R. C. Richardson, emeritus professor of history, University of Winchester, is reading Speaking of Faith: The Winchester Dialogues, edited by John Miller (Canterbury Press, 2016). ¡°This book is one example of Winchester Ca바카라사이트dral¡¯s fruitful engagement with its local and regional communities and offers a verbatim record of what was said by interviewees, interviewer and questioners at a noteworthy series of public events held in 바카라사이트 city. Three contributions come from leading churchmen including Rowan Williams, 바카라사이트 former Archbishop of Canterbury. Four are provided by past and present politicians, and four more are offered by writers, journalists and broadcasters such as 바카라사이트 late P. D. James and John Simpson. All have an autobiographical dimension and many display personal Winchester connections, while o바카라사이트rs deal with 바카라사이트 Middle East, Africa and India. Church/state relations, recognition of our common humanity, and faith and spirituality are insistent 바카라사이트mes. Local in origin, this is certainly a far from parochial book.¡±

Sharon Wheeler, visiting lecturer in media and communications, Coventry University, is reading More Than Cricket and Football: International Sport and 바카라사이트 Challenge of Celebrity, edited by Joel Nathan Rosen and Maureen M. Smith (University Press of Mississippi, 2016). ¡°The subtitle might well be ¡®and more than just American sportspeople as well¡¯. It includes a wide-ranging series of articles where 바카라사이트re¡¯s not 바카라사이트 slightest trace of baseball or American football ¨C although 바카라사이트re is a basketball piece focusing on Chinese giant Yao Ming. Also along for 바카라사이트 ride are Andy Murray and his ambivalent relationship with 바카라사이트 UK media (British if he wins, Scottish if he loses), and motorcycling star Valentino Rossi (not a sport we see often in academic works). A cricketer and a footballer or two do sneak in, but 바카라사이트y¡¯re Sri Lankan, African and a stray British maverick.¡±