Reviews in History – New Reviews 4 June 2009

After last week’s break, Reviews returns this week with four new books under discussion.Two of these are on Victorian England, with Victoria Le Fevre reviewing (no. 759, with reply here) Kathleen Callanan Martin’s Hard and Unreal Advice: Mothers, Social...

Reviews in History – New Reviews 21 May 2009

Three new reviews have been published this week.The first (review no. 753 and response) features a robust debate between William Rubinstein of the University of Aberystwyth and Tony Kushner over the latter’s latest book, Anglo-Jewry Since 1066: Place, Locality and...

Historical Research – New articles published online

Three new articles have been published online in our Early View issue on the Wiley-Blackwell/Historical Research website:’The bawdy master of St. Thomas’s hospital’. WILLIAM B. ROBISON'”Philosophically playing the Devil”: recovering...

Reviews in History – New Reviews 14 May 2009

Two new reviews have been published this week.First, Edward Rugemer’s examination of the implications for the United States of the abolition of slavery in the Caribbean is assessed for a UK scholarly audience for the first time (review no. 751) by Susan-Mary Grant of...

May 2009 issue of Historical Research

The May issue of Historical Research (vol. 82, no. 216) is now available online and in print. Highlights include: Natalie Zemon Davis on creole languages; Patrick Little on horse-breeding at the court of Oliver Cromwell; Virginia Berridge on medicine, public health...