The latest issue of the IHR’s magazine, Past and Future, is now available. This issue includes a trip behind the scenes of the V&A’s new Medieval and Renaissance galleries by curator Glyn Davies; an exploration of Soviet deaf theatre by Scouloudi...
World War II Quarterly has changed its name to Global War Studies: The Journal for the Study of Warfare and Weapons, 1919-1945. The latest issue contains an historiographical survey of the military aspects of Winston Churchill’s career and a section entitled New...
For those interested in local history, a new book by Alan Fox seeks to test the hypothesis that there was, in England, a patchwork of historical regions (largely coinciding with major drainage basins) which in turn allied closely with pre-1974 counties – in...
Swati Chattopadhyay’s plenary lecture from last year’s Anglo-American conference has been published in article form in Historical Research’s online Early View issue. The article addresses a methodological problem of urban history faced with the...
Manchester University Press’s latest book in their Studies in Imperialism series is entitled Chocolate, women and empire: a social and cultural history by Emma Robertson. Surprisingly the first English book on chocolate was published in 1662 – The Indian...
This week in Reviews in History Alexander Cowan reviews Joanne Ferraro’s new book Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice. Illicit Sex and Infanticide in the Republic of Venice 1557-1789, which deals with taboos that contemporaries scarcely spoke about or recorded:...
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