Top ten articles from the Bibliography of British and Irish History (Christmas reading)
As Christmas approaches, we thought we’d provide you with some yuletide reading as you sit by the fireside with a mince pie or two. Once again we have collated a top ten of our favourite, most interesting, most surprising articles that we index at the BBIH. 1....Latest Reviews – War, psychological trauma and early modern social history
We start this week with A. C. Grayling’s War: An Enquiry. In his review of this penetrating and provocative book, James Cronin focuses on its assertion that war is synonymous with the ascent of civilisation (no. 2206). Next up is a review of two new collections...Latest Reviews – Ukrainian famine, Louis VIII and Archbishop Randall Davidson
We start this week with Anne Applebaum’s Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine. Christopher Gilley finds the treatment of the famine here to be largely convincing – the book’s weakness is its historical framework (no. 2203). Next up is Louis: The...