The intersection of science and industry in the English Enlightenment is the subject of two books reviewed this week, Industrial Enlightenment: Science, Technology and Culture in Birmingham and the West Midlands 1760-1820 by Peter M. Jones and The Derby Philosophers:...
Following on from last week’s look at female scientists in the Victorian era, Reviews in History features another piece of nineteenth-century-sited gender history this week, with a review by Amy Erickson of Alison Kay’s new book The Foundations of Female...
The Journal of American History held an online discussion about digital history in 2008. The results were published in September 2008. The discussion is now available online. Topics covered include definition of digital history; students and digital history;...
This week in Reviews in History Alisa Miller reviews Annette Becker’s Apollinaire: une biographie de geurre 1914-1918-2009, a portrait of one man’s attempt to understand his own life and history in the context of a war that was revelatory for those who lived...
The latest update to the Bibliography of British and Irish History, launched on 4 June 2010, includes compatibility with Zotero, the reference management extension for the Firefox web browser, as well as 9,774 new records. You can find out more from the...
As is inevitable for a man who managed both the V-2 program for the Nazi regime and the Saturn V rocket development program for NASA, Wernher von Braun remains a controversial figure. As well as appearing as a character in Thomas Pynchon’s 70s classic...
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