World War II Quarterly changes name to Global War Studies…

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...

Regional Identities in England

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...

Cities and peripheries – new online article

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...

History for chocoholics

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...

Nefarious Crimes in Venice

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:...

Britain and the Yemen Civil War

British covert involvement in the Yemeni civil war is the topic of the Radio 4 programme Document (broadcast 8/3/2010). Using sources from The National Archives it traces British policy towards Yemen detailing the involvement of Julian Amery and the prime minister...