Ongoing War on Terror

With the British Army having spent much of the last decade engaged in counter-terrorism activities in Afghanistan and Iraq, now is a salient time to revisit a previous episode of this kind from the mid-20th century.David Cesarani’s Major Farran’s Hat: Murder,...

New Feature on Reviews in History

From this week it’s now possible to check reviews against the books themselves. Our latest review, courtesy of Google Books, is accompanied by a sneak preview of the book itself, a feature that will be available wherever possible in the future. Chris...

Norfolk local history on British History Online

The British History Online team are delighted to announce that the eleven-volume history of Norfolk by Francis Blomefield is now complete. Published gradually between 1805 and 1810, An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk remains the...

Don’t look a gift-horse in the mouth…

We’re close enough to Christmas for everyone to be aware of the subtle status games and power struggles involved in the ostensibly altruistic process of present-giving. Reassuringly, Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos’s new book The Culture of Giving: Informal...

February 2010 issue of Historical Research

The February issue of Historical Research (vol. 83, no. 219) is now available online and in print. Highlights include: Rupa Viswanath on’untouchables’ and religious neutrality in colonial south India; Alexander Watson and Patrick Porter on combat...