Latest reviews – Summer Palace, WW2 BBC, early modern memory and climate change

Feb 8, 2018

We start this week with Collecting and Displaying China’s “Summer Palace” in the West, edited by Louise Tythacott. Andrew Hillier believes that though its essays are stimulating, this book represents a missed opportunity to explore the wider issues implicit...

Home in the IHR library: inventories in the library collection

Feb 5, 2018

For the IHR Winter Conference on Home: New Histories of Living we are highlighting some relevant sources in the IHR library. Inventories of furniture and possessions are especially well represented in our large collection of primary printed material, a...

Latest reviews – magic, conversation pieces, Black Panthers and digital humanities

Feb 1, 2018

We start this week with Magic as a Political Crime in Medieval and Early Modern England: A History of Sorcery and Treason by Francis Young. Coral Casey-Stoakes thinks this book makes an important contribution to both the historiography of political culture in medieval...

Home in the IHR library: a new architecture guide

Jan 25, 2018

The forthcoming IHR Winter Conference on Home: New Histories of Living has us thinking about the insides and outsides of buildings. The IHR library collections support a range of study on the subject of architecture, and the new collection guide highlights some of the...

Latest reviews – Holocaust memories, slave reproduction and Irish emigrés

Jan 18, 2018

We start this week with Survivor Café: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory, an innovative book by Elizabeth Rosner. Ellis Spicer believes this book’s contribution to the field lies in its raw emotionality, personal stories and thematic strengths...

Latest reviews – C19 consumption, medieval religion, modern magic and 10 commandments revisited

Jan 11, 2018

Happy New Year to all Reviews in History readers! We start 2018 with the latest in our occasional podcast series, a fascinating interview with Joanna Cohen discussing among other things her new book, Luxurious Citizens: The Politics of Consumption in...