New reviews: mercenaries, Wilson, US health and urban history

Mar 9, 2017

We start this week with The Mercenary Mediterranean: Sovereignty, Religion and Violence in the Medieval Crown of Aragon by Hussein Fancy, as Robin Vose is stimulated by a serious work of historical research (no. 2079). Next up is Harold Wilson: The Unprincipled Prime...

Native American Women Resources in the BBIH

Mar 8, 2017

To tie in with the IHR’s upcoming conference Pocahontas and after: historical culture and transatlantic encounters, 1617-2017, we have gathered a selection of resources from the BBIH that address the themes of Native American women in Colonial America. The women in...

New reviews: Reformation, leaks, Wolfenden and medieval counsel

Mar 2, 2017

We start this week with All Things Made New: Writings on the Reformation by Diarmaid MacCulloch, as David Davis navigates a useful map of the untidy academic overgrowth of Reformation historiography (no. 2075). Next up is Lloyd Gardner’s War on Leakers: National...

New reviews: Ireland, Soviet Union, US egalitarians and C14 magic

Feb 16, 2017

We start this week with Liam Kennedy’s Unhappy the Land: The Most Oppressed People Ever, the Irish? Penelope Corfield and the author discuss a manifesto to Irish pluralism, which should be required reading for all historians of Ireland (no. 2067, with response here)....

New reviews: Lincoln, Enlightenment lawyers, sleep and abbots

Feb 9, 2017

We start this week with Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery: The Other Thirteenth Amendment and the Struggle to Save the Union by Daniel Crofts. Phillip Magness and the author discuss a book which carefully grounds Lincoln’s presidency in evidence (no. 2063,...