New reviews: 3000 years of finance, medieval Welsh soldiers, literary salons and Salmonella

Feb 25, 2016

We begin with A Concise History of International Finance: From Babylon to Bernanke by Larry Neal, as Andrew Mcdiarmid reviews an engaging narrative that charts the evolution of finance from the personal to the impersonal (no. 1899). Then we turn to Adam Chapman’s...

New reviews: Labour Party, Europeana, Early Modern accounting and slavery

Feb 18, 2016

We kick off this week with the History of the Labour Party by Andrew Thorpe, as Christopher Massey and the author discuss the most up-to-date study on the 115-year lifetime of the Labour Party (no. 1895, with response here). Then we have a review of the digital...

A new open access series with the Royal Historical Society

Feb 15, 2016

The IHR has the great pleasure of announcing our partnership with the Royal Historical Society (RHS) to publish a new, open access series of monographs and shorter form works, further solidifying our commitment to open access. New Historical Perspectives will seek to...

New reviews: Civil War, Ottoman Empire, Early Modern Catholics and C20 Archbishop

Feb 4, 2016

We start this week with The War That Forged A Nation: Why The Civil War Still Matters by James M. McPherson, and Susan-Mary Grant and the author discuss the latest work by the Civil War’s most preeminent historian (no. 1887, with response here). Next up Kate Fleet...

Feast of St Brigid – 1st February

Feb 1, 2016

The feast day of St Brigid is celebrated on the 1st February, and in honour of this, we have delved into our resources to give a taste of the material available on the Bibliography of British and Irish History.  St Brigid of Kildare is one of the main patron saints of...

New reviews: asylums, British soldiers, Puritans and nuns

Jan 21, 2016

We start this week with John Foot’s The Man Who Closed the Asylums: Franco Basaglia and the Revolution in Mental Health Care. Peter Barham and the author discuss a hugely ambitious book about the movement in Italy to transform the institutional landscape of Italian...