Professor Ronald Hutton, perhaps this country’s foremost authority on the history of the druids, has produced two books on the subject in the last two years. Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain (which follows 2008’s The Druids: a...
Spices and the spice trade are the subject of a fascinating new publication by Paul Freedman, Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination. More than just a work of food history, Freedman’s book places the subject in its broader political, economic,...
Three new articles are now available online: Public and private service at the early Stuart court: the career of William Raylton, Strafford’s agent. FIONA POGSONFrom menace to celebrity: the English police detective and the press, c.1842-1914. HAIA...
Like the RHS Bibliography, Irish History Online will be changing its publication arrangements in the new year, but will remain a free service at http://www.irishhistoryonline.ie/. More information is available on Irish History Online’s website.
The new Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH), which will replace the RHS Bibliography and London’s Past Online from 1 January 2010, has been updated. There are 3,000 additional titles and some problems with the geographical and subject indexing of...
The IHR’s Director, Professor Miles Taylor, can be heard on this morning’s (18 December) Today Programme discussing the new History of Parliament volumes on the House of Commons between 1820 and 1832. He and the HoP’s Philip Salmon were both asked as...
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