Still on the theme of cities and urban history there are two new reviews this week.In the first Kate Bradley reviews (no. 769) Andrew Davies’ book The Gangs of Manchester, the inspiration for the play Angels With Manky Faces which opens next week.New York is the...
Three volumes of wills for historic Lincolnshire have now appeared on British History Online. Covering nearly three centuries, from 1272 until the reign of Henry VIII, they contain several hundred wills, transcribed in full. They were originally edited by Canon C.W....
More cities-based reviews for you this week…First we have Jacob Field reviewing (no. 767) Lost Londons: Change, Crime and Control in the Capital City 1550–1660, Paul Griffiths’ analysis of crime and migrant workers in London during this period. The author’s response...
The first of two volumes of The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk are now live on British History Online. Written by the Reverend Alfred Suckling of Barsham, the series was originally projected to cover the whole county. In fact, it was left incomplete...
Three new articles have been published online in our Early View issue on the Wiley-Blackwell/Historical Research website:’Unitarians and the contradictions of liberal Protestantism in Victorian Britain: the Free Christian Union, 1867–70′. MICHAEL...
This week sees the start of a month-long Reviews special on the theme of Cities and Urban History, to coincide with the Anglo-American Conference at the IHR (https://www.history.ac.uk/aac2009 or for twitter updates see https://www.history.ac.uk/aac/twitter.html) which...
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