Latest reviews – Holocaust memories, slave reproduction and Irish emigrés

Jan 18, 2018

We start this week with Survivor Café: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory, an innovative book by Elizabeth Rosner. Ellis Spicer believes this book’s contribution to the field lies in its raw emotionality, personal stories and thematic strengths...

Latest reviews – C19 consumption, medieval religion, modern magic and 10 commandments revisited

Jan 11, 2018

Happy New Year to all Reviews in History readers! We start 2018 with the latest in our occasional podcast series, a fascinating interview with Joanna Cohen discussing among other things her new book, Luxurious Citizens: The Politics of Consumption in...

Latest reviews – secret files, Decalogue, Anschluss and more WW1 trauma

Dec 14, 2017

We start this week with Secret Files from World War to Cold War: British Government and Secret Intelligence and Foreign Policy files. Dan Lomas believes the sheer size and usability of the digital records makes this a worthwhile aid for anyone interested in early...

Top ten articles from the Bibliography of British and Irish History (Christmas reading)

Dec 12, 2017

As Christmas approaches, we thought we’d provide you with some yuletide reading as you sit by the fireside with a mince pie or two. Once again we have collated a top ten of our favourite, most interesting, most surprising articles that we index at the BBIH. 1....

Latest Reviews – War, psychological trauma and early modern social history

Dec 7, 2017

We start this week with A. C. Grayling’s War: An Enquiry. In his review of this penetrating and provocative book, James Cronin focuses on its assertion that war is synonymous with the ascent of civilisation (no. 2206). Next up is a review of two new collections...

Latest Reviews – Ukrainian famine, Louis VIII and Archbishop Randall Davidson

Nov 30, 2017

We start this week with Anne Applebaum’s Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine. Christopher Gilley finds the treatment of the famine here to be largely convincing – the book’s weakness is its historical framework (no. 2203). Next up is Louis: The...