Reviews in History – New Reviews 10 September 2009

Sep 10, 2009

Three new reviews have been posted this week.The first is Hilda Kean’s critical take (no. 789) on A History of Attitudes and Behaviours toward Animals in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain. Anthropocentrism and the Emergence of Animals by Rob Boddice, whose...

Reviews in History – New Reviews 3 September 2009

Sep 3, 2009

Three new reviews have been posted this week.In the first, Lynne Walker finds much of interest (no. 786) in Judith Neiswander’s new study of the popular literature of Victorian interior decoration, The Cosmopolitan Interior: Liberalism and the British Home...

Historical Research: ‘Henry VII and the Bristol expeditions to North America: the Condon documents’

Aug 28, 2009

Following his intriguing analysis of the late Dr. Alwyn Ruddock’s book proposal on the North American discovery voyages of John and Sebastian Cabot (‘Alwyn Ruddock: “John Cabot and the discovery of America”’, H.R., lxxxi, 2008), Evan Jones now publishes two ‘new’...

Reviews in History – New Reviews 27 August 2009

Aug 27, 2009

We’re back this week (following the deputy editor’s rain-soaked so-called holiday in the north of England) with a bumper crop of reviews.First up there’s an assessment (no. 782) by Jonathan Blaney of an edited collection of papers on the use of digital media in the...

Victoria County History for Wiltshire

Aug 20, 2009

We are delighted to announce that six new volumes of the VCH for Wiltshire are now live on British History Online. The launch of volumes 5, 7, 11 and 13-15 completes the published coverage of the parishes of the county, and brings the total count of volumes up to 15,...

Reviews in History – New Reviews 13 August 2009

Aug 13, 2009

The following reviews have been published this week.Margaret Walsh (no. 778) on Cotton Seiler’s Republic of Drivers: A Cultural History of Automobility in America.Martin Lengwiler (no. 779) on Solidarity Without the State? Business and the Shaping of the Swiss Welfare...