Latest reviews – crusades, workhouses, bishops and Richard the Lionheart

Apr 12, 2018

We start today with Reconfiguring the Fifteenth-Century Crusade, edited by Norman Housley. James Doherty reviews an exploration of the interplay of established crusading ideals and practices with the issues that occupied the attention of 15th-century Christendom (no....

Competition Open: Pollard Prize 2018

Apr 9, 2018

Entries are invited for this year’s Pollard Prize (sponsored by Wiley) awarded for the best paper presented at an IHR seminar 2017-18 by a postgraduate student or by a researcher within one year of completing the PhD. First prize Fast track publication in the...

Latest reviews – Ottomans, Nazi administrators, Godfrey of Bouillon and reproduction response

Apr 5, 2018

We start today with Michael Provence’s The Last Ottoman Generation and the Making of the Modern Middle East. Ramazan Hakkı Öztan and the author debate an exemplary reinterpretation of the history of the inter-war Middle East (no. 2231, with response here). Then...

Daring Dynasty: Custom, Conflict and Control in Early-Tudor England by Mark R. Horowitz

Mar 23, 2018

He founded perhaps the most famous dynasty in history: the Tudors. Yet, in 1485 when Henry Tudor defeated Richard III to become King Henry VII, he possessed the most anaemic claim to the throne since William the Conqueror. In defiance of the norms of medieval rule, he...

Latest reviews – Punjab, American sectionalism, Angevin England and Muslim conspiracy

Mar 22, 2018

We start with Mark Condos’ The Insecurity State: Punjab and the Making of Colonial Power in British India. Michael Brunner and the author discuss a thought-provoking and profound analysis of colonial insecurities, violence and legislation (no. 2228, with...

India Conquered: Britain’s Raj and the Chaos of Empire – Reviews in History round table special

Feb 15, 2018

This week in Reviews in History  we are focussing on a single book, Jon Wilson’s India Conquered: Britain’s Raj and the Chaos of Empire. We invited five reviewers to contribute to a round table discussion and take up different aspects of the book, with the...