Latest reviews – Ottomans, Nazi administrators, Godfrey of Bouillon and reproduction response

Apr 5, 2018

We start today with Michael Provence’s The Last Ottoman Generation and the Making of the Modern Middle East. Ramazan Hakkı Öztan and the author debate an exemplary reinterpretation of the history of the inter-war Middle East (no. 2231, with response here). Then...

Bibliography of British and Irish History updated – March 2017 – “Guide for students”

Apr 5, 2018

The latest update to the Bibliography of British and Irish History was published on 23 March 2018. There are 3,738 new records. Of these some 633 new records relate to Irish history while 149 deal with the history of London, 276 with the history of...

Latest reviews – Punjab, American sectionalism, Angevin England and Muslim conspiracy

Mar 22, 2018

We start with Mark Condos’ The Insecurity State: Punjab and the Making of Colonial Power in British India. Michael Brunner and the author discuss a thought-provoking and profound analysis of colonial insecurities, violence and legislation (no. 2228, with...

The proceedings of the ‘Happy Parliament’: 1624 records of House of Commons now online

Feb 19, 2018

Philip Baker, former Research Fellow of the History of Parliament and Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, explains the background to and completion of a History of Parliament project for which he was Editor. This new online resource provides access to primary...

India Conquered: Britain’s Raj and the Chaos of Empire – Reviews in History round table special

Feb 15, 2018

This week in Reviews in History  we are focussing on a single book, Jon Wilson’s India Conquered: Britain’s Raj and the Chaos of Empire. We invited five reviewers to contribute to a round table discussion and take up different aspects of the book, with the...

From Roman villa to brutalist architecture – homes, housing and households in BBIH

Feb 14, 2018

  To celebrate the IHR Winter Conference 2018 entitled, Home: new histories of living it seems sensible to explore the theme in the Bibliography of British and Irish History. There is much on Roman villas and their mosaics as well as articles on their interior...