May 2009 issue of Historical Research

The May issue of Historical Research (vol. 82, no. 216) is now available online and in print. Highlights include: Natalie Zemon Davis on creole languages; Patrick Little on horse-breeding at the court of Oliver Cromwell; Virginia Berridge on medicine, public health...

Reviews in History – New Reviews 7 May 2009

Three new reviews have been published this week.Review no. 748, by Sean O’Connell of Queen’s University, Belfast, is of Georgine Clarsen’s recent work on female drivers in the first part of the 20th century, Eat My Dust: Early Women Motorists. Her response can be read...

Digital edition of sources in Europe

The British History Online team gave a presentation at a conference celebrating the 175th anniversary of the Belgian Royal Historical Commission (CRH) on 29 April 2009. The conference addressed ‘The digital edition of sources in Europe: achievements, problems...

Reviews in History – New Reviews 30 April 2009

Michael Oakeshott’s highly influential Experience and its Modes was published for the first time in 1933, and this philosophy of history classic has now been reappraised by Alexander Macfie.Elsewhere there are reviews of new books on topics as disparate as...

Papal Documents

We have recently published six volumes of Papal documents on British History Online. These are assorted volumes of three different types. The Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Vatican Archives is a two-volume series covering the early years...

Reviews in History – New Reviews 23 April 2009

There are two new reviews this week, with Lorraine White tackling Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert’s A Nation Upon the Open Sea: Portugal’s Atlantic Diaspora and the Crisis of the Spanish Empire, 1492-1640 and Elliot Vernon reviewing War in England 1642-1649, by...