St George is a mysterious figure in many ways, claimed as their own by many different countries. How and why he emerged as the patron saint of England is the question Jonathan Good attempts to answer in his new book The Cult of St George in Medieval England, a review...
With the British Army having spent much of the last decade engaged in counter-terrorism activities in Afghanistan and Iraq, now is a salient time to revisit a previous episode of this kind from the mid-20th century.David Cesarani’s Major Farran’s Hat: Murder,...
From this week it’s now possible to check reviews against the books themselves. Our latest review, courtesy of Google Books, is accompanied by a sneak preview of the book itself, a feature that will be available wherever possible in the future. Chris...
The Bibliography of British and Irish History (like its predecessor, the RHS Bibliography) is participating in a project to promote co-operation among bibliographies covering history in some thirteen European countries. The project’s website now contains...
The British History Online team are delighted to announce that the eleven-volume history of Norfolk by Francis Blomefield is now complete. Published gradually between 1805 and 1810, An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk remains the...
We’re close enough to Christmas for everyone to be aware of the subtle status games and power struggles involved in the ostensibly altruistic process of present-giving. Reassuringly, Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos’s new book The Culture of Giving: Informal...
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