As we head into the Summer Vacation, we’ve decided to do a light hearted display theme. Inspired by the viral success of Rachel Zegler’s West End performance in Evita, in which the Hunger Games star portrays the former First Lady of Argentina, Eva Peron, we have selected a variety of books from the History Faculty collection with connections to musicals. Most are currently running in London!

See if you can guess which musicals inspired the selected books!

From left to right, top to bottom, we have:

1. ‘The Vietnam War From the Other Side’ by Ang Cheng Guan.
2. ‘The Revolution of 1905 and Russia’s Jews’ by Stefani Hoffman.
3. ‘Six Wives’ by David Starkey.
4. ‘The Price of Greatness’ by Jay Cost.
5. ‘Argentina: A Modern History’ by Jill Hedges.
6. ‘Gay Berlin’ by Robert Beachy.
7. ‘Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism’ by Richard L. Bushman.
8. ‘The Age of Revolutions’ by Nathan Perl-Rosenthal.
9. ‘Let the Record Show’ by Sarah Schulman.
10. ‘Protesting About Pauperism’ by Elizabeth T. Hurren.
11. ‘Marching to the Fault Line’ by Francis Beckett and David Hencke.

And for our ebook selection:

In the meantime, we hope everyone has a wonderful summer vacation!