February 2010 issue of Historical Research

The February issue of Historical Research (vol. 83, no. 219) is now available online and in print. Highlights include: Rupa Viswanath on’untouchables’ and religious neutrality in colonial south India; Alexander Watson and Patrick Porter on combat...

New articles online

Four new Historical Research articles are now available on Early View: Protestant interests? The 1641 rebellion and state formation in early modern Ireland. JOHN GIBNEYCusade administration in fifteenth-century England: regulations for the distribution of indulgences...

History On-line bibliographic update – January 2010

The History On-line January 2010 bibliographic update is now online. Browse the history books to be published between January-March 2010, or discover the latest articles in the leading history journals.

The Invention of the Druids

Professor Ronald Hutton, perhaps this country’s foremost authority on the history of the druids, has produced two books on the subject in the last two years. Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain (which follows 2008’s The Druids: a...

Spicing things up

Spices and the spice trade are the subject of a fascinating new publication by Paul Freedman, Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination. More than just a work of food history, Freedman’s book places the subject in its broader political, economic,...

Historical Research Early View

Three new articles are now available online: Public and private service at the early Stuart court: the career of William Raylton, Strafford’s agent. FIONA POGSONFrom menace to celebrity: the English police detective and the press, c.1842-1914. HAIA...