Philhellenism across the ages

This week on Reviews we have a welcome reappraisal of a neglected classic, William McGrew’s Land and Revolution in Modern Greece, 1800-81, first published in 1985. Our reviewer Eugenia Russell reckons this to be the most important monograph on the early modern history...

Historical Research August 2010 (vol. 83, no. 221)

Highlights from the latest issue of Historical Research include:Anne Duggan on Roman, canon and common law in 12th-century England; Benjamin Wild on the jewel accounts of King Henry III; a look at the Free Christian Union, 1867–70, by Michael Ledger-Lomas and at war...

Irish immigrants in Scotland’s shipyards and coalfields

John Foster, Muir Houston and Chris Madigan examine employment relations, sectarianism and class formation among Catholic and Protestant Irish immigrants in 19th century Clydeside and Lanarkshire. New article available on Historical Research Early View.

The Naked Truth

The story of nudity and nudism in the 20th century is a fascinating one, encompassing not just badminton-playing eccentric innocents, but Weimar Republic libertarians and anarchist radicals.Despite this (or maybe because of it?), there has been a lack of serious...

1000 volumes on British History Online

We have now reached the 1000-volume landmark for British History Online. Each of these has been approved by our advisory panel of academics as being a valuable work of history and has been digitised according to the gold standard of text capture: double rekeying by...