Lisa in Bookland | My Top 10 Non Fiction Books @lisainbookland | Uploaded November 2022 | Updated October 2024, 3 seconds ago.
In this video to start Non-Fiction November 2022 I tell you about my 10 favourite non-fiction books so far. Hope you enjoy! Let me know if you’ve read any of these or your favourite non-fiction books.
#nonfictionnovember is hosted by @abookolive. Announcement video: youtube.com/watch?v=8HG1QL3wN6E&t=0s
Please feel free to reach out on Voxer @lisa60932, Instagram @lisainbookland, or email lisainbookland@gmail.com
BOOKMARKS:
00:00-00:36 Intro
00:37-01:22 Honourable Mentions
01:23-03:41 Criteria for selection/general chat on non-fiction
03:42-16:30 Books about Ships/Naval History
16:31-19:41 Book about the British Empire in India
19:42-25:04 Biographies
25:05-28:14 Book about Irish History
28:15-31:44 Books about Second World War History
31:44-32:08 Outro
FAVOURITE BOOKS MENTIONED:
- Longitude by Dava Sobel
- Endeavour The Ship and Attitude that Changed the World by Peter Moore
- Dressed to Kill: British Naval Uniform, Masculinity and Contemporary Fashion 1748-1857 by Amy Miller
- Jack Tar: The Extraordinary Lives of Ordinary Seamen in Nelson’s Navy by Roy and Lesley Adkins
- Trafalgar: A Biography of a Battle by Roy Adkins
- The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple. I talked about this in my January 2022 Reading Wrap Up youtube.com/watch?v=obI1x6Jk8jA&t=243s
- Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley
- Tom Crean: An Illustrated Life by Michael Smith. I talked about this in my March 2022 Reading Wrap Up youtube.com/watch?v=0gHdqWEggiw&t=435s
- Birth of A State: The Anglo-Irish Treaty by Micheál O Fathartaigh and Liam Weeks
- The Most Dangerous Enemy: A History of the Battle of Britain by Stephen Bungay
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED
- The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir. I talked about this in my September 2022 Reading Wrap Up youtube.com/watch?v=W-nHRcfbU0U&t=1094s
- Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History by Roy and Lesley Adkins
- The War for All the Oceans by Roy and Lesley Adkins
- Guarding Neutral Ireland: The Irish Coastwatching Service and Military Intelligence 1939-1945 by Michael Kennedy
OTHER THINGS MENTIONED:
- National Maritime Museum Greenwich rmg.co.uk/national-maritime-museum. I can’t find that image I used of county by county breakdown of Irish seamen at Trafalgar online, but this article discusses the same figures irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/england-expects-with-a-little-help-from-nelson-s-irish-1.1560559#:~:text=Nelson's%20fleet%20consisted%20of%2033,records%20survive%20for%20about%2012%2C000.&text=Some%203%2C573%20sailors%20came%20from,Wexford%20and%20112%20from%20Antrim.
- Portsmouth Historic Dockyard (contains HMS Victory and the Battle of Trafalgar Museum) historicdockyard.co.uk
- Chawton House chawtonhouse.org
- Jane Austen’s House, Chawton https://janeaustens.house/
- Behind Closed Doors, Lucy Worsley’s documentary of Jane Austen imdb.com/title/tt7467912
- Foyle’s War Television series imdb.com/title/tt0310455
- Top Gun: Maverick imdb.com/title/tt1745960/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3
Please feel free to reach out on Voxer @lisa60932, Instagram @lisainbookland, or email lisainbookland@gmail.com
In this video to start Non-Fiction November 2022 I tell you about my 10 favourite non-fiction books so far. Hope you enjoy! Let me know if you’ve read any of these or your favourite non-fiction books.
#nonfictionnovember is hosted by @abookolive. Announcement video: youtube.com/watch?v=8HG1QL3wN6E&t=0s
Please feel free to reach out on Voxer @lisa60932, Instagram @lisainbookland, or email lisainbookland@gmail.com
BOOKMARKS:
00:00-00:36 Intro
00:37-01:22 Honourable Mentions
01:23-03:41 Criteria for selection/general chat on non-fiction
03:42-16:30 Books about Ships/Naval History
16:31-19:41 Book about the British Empire in India
19:42-25:04 Biographies
25:05-28:14 Book about Irish History
28:15-31:44 Books about Second World War History
31:44-32:08 Outro
FAVOURITE BOOKS MENTIONED:
- Longitude by Dava Sobel
- Endeavour The Ship and Attitude that Changed the World by Peter Moore
- Dressed to Kill: British Naval Uniform, Masculinity and Contemporary Fashion 1748-1857 by Amy Miller
- Jack Tar: The Extraordinary Lives of Ordinary Seamen in Nelson’s Navy by Roy and Lesley Adkins
- Trafalgar: A Biography of a Battle by Roy Adkins
- The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple. I talked about this in my January 2022 Reading Wrap Up youtube.com/watch?v=obI1x6Jk8jA&t=243s
- Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley
- Tom Crean: An Illustrated Life by Michael Smith. I talked about this in my March 2022 Reading Wrap Up youtube.com/watch?v=0gHdqWEggiw&t=435s
- Birth of A State: The Anglo-Irish Treaty by Micheál O Fathartaigh and Liam Weeks
- The Most Dangerous Enemy: A History of the Battle of Britain by Stephen Bungay
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED
- The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir. I talked about this in my September 2022 Reading Wrap Up youtube.com/watch?v=W-nHRcfbU0U&t=1094s
- Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History by Roy and Lesley Adkins
- The War for All the Oceans by Roy and Lesley Adkins
- Guarding Neutral Ireland: The Irish Coastwatching Service and Military Intelligence 1939-1945 by Michael Kennedy
OTHER THINGS MENTIONED:
- National Maritime Museum Greenwich rmg.co.uk/national-maritime-museum. I can’t find that image I used of county by county breakdown of Irish seamen at Trafalgar online, but this article discusses the same figures irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/england-expects-with-a-little-help-from-nelson-s-irish-1.1560559#:~:text=Nelson's%20fleet%20consisted%20of%2033,records%20survive%20for%20about%2012%2C000.&text=Some%203%2C573%20sailors%20came%20from,Wexford%20and%20112%20from%20Antrim.
- Portsmouth Historic Dockyard (contains HMS Victory and the Battle of Trafalgar Museum) historicdockyard.co.uk
- Chawton House chawtonhouse.org
- Jane Austen’s House, Chawton https://janeaustens.house/
- Behind Closed Doors, Lucy Worsley’s documentary of Jane Austen imdb.com/title/tt7467912
- Foyle’s War Television series imdb.com/title/tt0310455
- Top Gun: Maverick imdb.com/title/tt1745960/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3
Please feel free to reach out on Voxer @lisa60932, Instagram @lisainbookland, or email lisainbookland@gmail.com
