Latest reviews – outlawing war, Victorian surgery and Lincoln’s jokes

Jun 21, 2018

We begin this week with The Internationalists and Their Plan to Outlaw War, edited by Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro. Peter Yearwood believes this book fails as a work of history, bound up as it is with a deeply flawed and greatly overstated thesis (no. 2257)....

Latest reviews – 1860 election, anti-slavery, American Revolution and Catholic queens

Jun 7, 2018

We begin this week with Susan Dunn-Hensley’s Anna of Denmark and Henrietta Maria: Virgins, Witches, and Catholic Queens. Aidan Norrie and the author discuss an interesting, if sometimes simplistic, reconsideration of these two queens (no. 2253, with response...

Latest reviews – medieval prophets, British Atlantic Jacobitism and Indian railways

May 31, 2018

We begin this week with Railways and The Raj: How the Age of Steam Transformed India by Christian Wolmar. Aparajita Mukhopadhyay and Christian Wolmar discuss a history of Indian railways which attempts to straddle the world of academic monographs and popular history...

Latest reviews – British C17 Empire, nuclear armageddon, C18 Italian anatomy & Herbert Gladstone

May 24, 2018

We begin this week with Advancing Empire: English Interests and Overseas Expansion, 1613-1688 by L. H. Roper. David Hope and the author discuss an accomplished book that has much to offer those interested in state formation, political economy, overseas trade, and the...

RESAW@Porto2018 – An introduction to web archives for Humanities and Social Science research

May 21, 2018

This one-day workshop will be held as part of the 22nd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, on 13 September 2018, Porto, Portugal. Workshop organisers Daniel Gomes (Head of Arquivo.pt, Advanced Services Department, FCT- Foundation for...

Latest reviews – William of Malmesbury, Civil War, Nostradamus and New England

May 3, 2018

We start today with Discovering William of Malmesbury, edited by Emily Dolmans, Rodney M. Tomson and Emily A. Winkler. Charlie Rozier assesses a wide-ranging re-examination of a leading contributor to the 12th-century Anglo-Norman historiographical turn (no. 2239,...