Book fair 2-3 July

As part of our Anglo-American Conference next week, the conference book fair will take place in the Brunei Gallery on 2-3 July, 9.30 to 6.00, and we hope you’ll take a few minutes to visit our exhibitors. This is a fantastic opportunity to speak to editors and...

Latest books to be processed for the RHS Bibliography

The latest batch of books processed for inclusion in the Bibliography is, as ever, wide-ranging. They include B films as a record of British working-class preoccupations in the 1950s by Paul Quinn; The production, use and disposal of Romano-British pewter tableware by...

Missing links: the enduring web

On 21 July, we’ll be going to the ‘Missing links: the enduring web’ conference, organised at the British Library by JISC, the Digital Preservation Coalition and the UK Web Archiving Consortium Workshop (for more information, see...

Reviews in History – New Reviews 18 June 2009

Two review articles are published this week.   The first, by Katrina Gulliver, is concerned with the colonizer/colonized relationship and how individuals and groups negotiated their space in conflict, spanning the period from earlier colonization to the brink of...

Reviews in History – New Reviews 11 June 2009

This week we have reviews of books covering two very different subjects. First Sonja Levsen reviews (no. 760) Thomas Weber’s Our Friend ‘The Enemy’: Elite Education in Britain and Germany Before World War 1, which compares the university cultures of the two countries...

New book! The Creighton Century

The Creighton Century marks 100 years of the Creighton Lecture, containing 10 lectures introduced by historians from the University of London. They range from perceptions of the Industrial Revolution (Donald Coleman) to the situation of interwar Japan (Ian Nish) and...