Henry III, better than his father, worse than his son?
Henry’s reign began inauspiciously. He was crowned on 28 October 1216 in some haste at Gloucester Abbey. The coronation was overseen by the papal legate and Henry was anointed by the bishops of Worcester, Winchester and Exeter; the archbishops of Canterbury and York...New reviews: Russian right, British nukes, John Owen and Eamon de Valera
We start this week with The Radical Right in Late Imperial Russia: Dreams of a True Fatherland? by George Gilbert, as Geoffrey Hosking and the author discuss a good general guide (no. 2004, with response here). Next we turn to Jonathan Hogg’s British Nuclear Culture:...On An Internship
This post by IHR Digital intern Jaipreet Deo was originally written for Leicester University Student Blogs. You might remember that I started an internship a couple of weeks ago. I’d just like to comment on a couple of things. Bad things that could happen on an...Reviews in History – 2000th review out today!
To mark our 2000th review we have a special Somme centenary piece, centred around a reappraisal of Martin Middlebrook’s classic The First Day on the Somme. How is that that a Lincolnshire poultry farmer changed the course of Somme historiography with his first...