In her new book, Common Sense: A Political History (see here for in-depth review and author’s response), Sophia Rosenfeld points out the diverse ways common sense has been used throughout history as well as what it actually stands for.The novelty of her...
On a very blustery September day, a search of Connected Histories for the word ‘storm’ produces 36,190 results, including this from Strype’s Survey of London: ‘in the year 1574. on the fourth of September in the Afternoon, there fell a Storm of...
Another August day, more rain outside, and a new set of offices. The recent IHR relocation has, in part, caused a short pause in my blog posting about History SPOT. There are of course other reasons – largely based around the fact that not much happens in August...
Two interesting journal articles recently caught my attention about the abolition of the slave trade. The first looks at how the anniversary was commemorated on British television, Rough Crossings and Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death: Documentary, Drama and...
One of the books covered this week by Reviews in History is Memory of War in France, 1914–45: César Fauxbras, the Voice of the Lowly by Matthew Perry, which aims to bring to attention the voice and viewpoint of a dissident French intellectual who lived through both...
Rachel Hewitt’s new book Map of a Nation: a Biography of the Ordnance Survey (see here for full review) charts the story of this longstanding British institution from its inception as an aid to the subjugation of the Highlands in the mid 18th century to...
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