We conclude our month of city-based pieces today with the following three reviews.In Portuguese Colonial Cities in the Early Modern World Liam Brockey edits a collection of articles focussing on cities with various degrees of connection to the Portuguese empire....
We have uploaded another three volumes of the Journal of the House of Lords: volumes 21, 22, and 23, which cover the years 1718 to 1730. In partnership with The History of Parliament Trust we are able to digitise 19 volumes this summer, to add to the volumes already...
Congratulations to the winner of the 2009 Pollard Prize, Sebastian Prange, for his paper ‘”Measuring by the bushell”: reweighing the Indian Ocean pepper trade’. This year’s runner up was Katharina Rietzler, with ‘Before the cultural...
Prose and poetry are the source materials for two very different city-based studies this week. First James Gregory (no. 771) reviews Guilty Money: The City of London in Victorian and Edwardian Culture by Ranald Michie (see here for his response), which looks at the...
The History On-line July bibliographic update is now online. Browse the history books to be published between July-September 2009, or discover the latest articles in the leading history journals.
Still on the theme of cities and urban history there are two new reviews this week.In the first Kate Bradley reviews (no. 769) Andrew Davies’ book The Gangs of Manchester, the inspiration for the play Angels With Manky Faces which opens next week.New York is the...
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