We are delighted that we can now make available five of the case studies written by researchers across the humanities and social sciences. More will be available via this blog soon. At the beginning of the project we had a number of aspirations for what the case...
We continue this week with our fashion special, and first up this week is Fashion Prints in the Age of Louis XIV: Interpreting the Art of Elegance, edited by Kathryn Norberg. David Pullins hopes the essays here will prompt more sustained engagement with this important...
Naturally the anniversary of the start of the war to end all wars has created a plethora of special issues on the subject. What I have found engaging about these is the coverage of the not so obvious material. A prime example is Comparative Legal History, and its...
Two years before Burlington Arcade opened, the Gentleman’s Magazine published an article describing some of the reasons for its construction: It is said that after numerous deliberations, Lord George Cavendish [1st Earl of Burlington] has determined to appropriate a...
Today is the first day of Fashion, the 84th Anglo-American Conference of Historians, and as usual, this means we’ll be publishing a series of fashion-related reviews over the next few weeks. We start this week with a book by one of the session chairs from the...
An update to the Bibliography of British and Irish History was published on 29 June. 3,460 new records have been added; over 2,000 of these are for publications of 2014-15. Some 400 new records relate to Irish history while 135 deal with the history of London and 251...
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