Last week saw a special issue of Reviews in History on environmental history, released to coincide with the July 2010 Anglo-American Conference on the same subject. It contains ten new reviews of books covering a variety of aspects of environmental history, including...
The winner of The Sir John Neale Prize in Tudor History for 2010 is Charlotte Panofré with ‘Radical Geneva? The publication of Knox’s First Blast of the Trumpet and Goodman’s How Superior Powers ought to be Obeyd in context’. The article will appear in...
The winner of the IHR’s Pollard Prize this year is Julie Mumby with ‘The descent of family land in later Anglo-Saxon England’ (originally given to the Earlier Middle Ages seminar). The runner up was Antonia Fitzpatrick with ‘Mendicant order...
The correspondence of Cardinal Paul Cullen and Archbishop Tobias Kirby is part of a digitisation project by the Pontifical Irish College in Rome. The collection of letters sheds light on Irish social and political history as well as ecclesiastical history. A highlight...
The fascinating story of the Black Loyalists during and after the American Revolution and War of Independence is outlined in this new site. Featuring essays, outlines, a timeline and digital documents, the site relates the story of the nearly 30,000 African Americans...
The intersection of science and industry in the English Enlightenment is the subject of two books reviewed this week, Industrial Enlightenment: Science, Technology and Culture in Birmingham and the West Midlands 1760-1820 by Peter M. Jones and The Derby Philosophers:...
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