Latest from Reviews in History – nuclear protest, Thomas Jefferson, slave owners database and medieval ritual

Sep 14, 2017

We start this week with Better Active than Radioactive! Anti-Nuclear Protest in 1970s France and West Germany by Andrew S. Tompkins. Sinead McEneaney and the author discuss a work which places the focus squarely on the transnational connections between activists and...

Latest from Reviews in History – nuns, bishops, racist ideas and public health

Sep 7, 2017

We start this week with Tom Crook’s Governing Systems: Modernity and the Making of Public Health in England, 1830–1910. Christopher Hamlin and the author discuss a book big in scope, range, and thought (no. 2166, with response here). Next up is Stamped from the...

Latest from Reviews in History – Irish & German nationalism, British war planning, New Orleans slavery

Aug 31, 2017

We start this week with Shane Nagle’s Histories of Nationalism in Ireland and Germany: A Comparative Study from 1800 to 1932. Jean-Michel Johnston and the author debate a book which reveals interesting similarities and differences between important texts in the...

Summer top ten – Roman tankards to tube trains

Aug 31, 2017

Following on from the success of our top ten favourite articles from 2016, we thought we would bring you a round-up of the most interesting and unusual articles that we have indexed on the Bibliography so far this year. From anger to laughter, beer to bank managers,...

Latest from Reviews in History – Apartheid, Aelred of Rievaulx, Vietnam and Samuel Marsden

Aug 24, 2017

We start this week with Jamie Miller’s An African Volk: The Apartheid Regime and Its Search for Survival. Robert McNamara and the author discuss what is perhaps the most important book written about South African foreign policy in the mid-Cold War era (no. 2159,...

New reviews: Slavery, Morocco, Carolingian Empire and Roosevelts

Aug 17, 2017

We start this week with Emily West’s Enslaved Women in America: From Colonial Times to Emancipation. Kristen Brill recommends a book which masterfully presents the narrative of women’s lived experiences in slavery through the prism of gender (no. 2155, with...