Reviews in History has been accused with some justification in the past of concentrating too heavily on books of recent history. We’re making every effort to correct this imbalance, and as evidence of this two medieval history reviews have been published this...
We have recently introduced a big improvement to the way our annotation feature for British History Online works, enhancing the experience for both annotators and readers. You will need to be logged in, but now simply double clicking on a line of text brings up the...
Tempted though I was to blog this week about Evelyn Lord’s salaciously titled The Hell-Fire Clubs: Sex, Satanism and Secret Societies (reviewed here by Jason Kelly) I’ve decide instead to take the moral high ground, and point readers towards a book on...
Radio 4’s Today programme (08:57) discussed the recent conference celebrating the 1709 biography of Shakespeare by Nicholas Rowe. How many studies of Shakespeare are there? From the RHS Bibliography there are 780 references, everything from Rowe’s...
The IHR is collaborating with the universities of Sheffield and Hertfordshire, and King’s College London on an exciting new project, funded under the JISC eContent programme. ‘Connected Histories’ will create an innovative search engine for a wide...
The 19th century was ‘a period of energetic marital non-conformity amongst couples of all social classes’, at least according to Tanya Evans’ review of Ginger Frost’s Living in Sin: Cohabiting as Husband and Wife in Nineteenth-Century...
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