We’re back this week (following the deputy editor’s rain-soaked so-called holiday in the north of England) with a bumper crop of reviews.First up there’s an assessment (no. 782) by Jonathan Blaney of an edited collection of papers on the use of digital media in the...
We are delighted to announce that six new volumes of the VCH for Wiltshire are now live on British History Online. The launch of volumes 5, 7, 11 and 13-15 completes the published coverage of the parishes of the county, and brings the total count of volumes up to 15,...
The following reviews have been published this week.Margaret Walsh (no. 778) on Cotton Seiler’s Republic of Drivers: A Cultural History of Automobility in America.Martin Lengwiler (no. 779) on Solidarity Without the State? Business and the Shaping of the Swiss Welfare...
‘The origins of the Foreign Jurisdiction Act and the extension of British sovereignty’ by C. R. PENNELL is now available on Early View at Wiley-Blackwell/Historical Research
Two very different reviews are featured this week.In the first (no. 776) Jenny Benham enthuses over War and Peace in Ancient and Medieval History (edited by Philip de Souza and John France), a series of essays contextualising the evolution of peace treaties and truces...
He fought Richard III to the death in 1485 after 14 years in exile and a tenuous claim to the throne. He was aware that five of the last nine English kings were killed so they could be replaced. Yet he brought stability to the realm, economic solvency to the...
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