New reviews: Trust, Italian Army, British India and Colonial Boston

We kick off this week with Geoffrey Hosking’s Trust: A History, with Eric M. Uslaner and the author disagreeing over this key issue (no. 1729, with response here). Next up is The Italian Army and the First World War by John Gooch. Mario Draper reviews a book which...

Web archives as big data

Peter Webster, a member of the project team, here reflects on the conference we held at the IHR on 3 December. Peter writes: In early December the project held an excellent day conference on the theme of web archives as big data. A good part of the day was taken up...

New reviews: London women, Tokyo Zoo, Callaghan Government, Mystic Ark

First up is Women, Work and Sociability in Early Modern London by Tim Reinke-Williams. Hannah Hogan and the author discuss an inspiring starting-point for further, in-depth histories of women, work and sociability in early modern England (no. 1713, with response...