Latest reviews – Summer Palace, WW2 BBC, early modern memory and climate change

Feb 8, 2018

We start this week with Collecting and Displaying China’s “Summer Palace” in the West, edited by Louise Tythacott. Andrew Hillier believes that though its essays are stimulating, this book represents a missed opportunity to explore the wider issues implicit...

Latest reviews – magic, conversation pieces, Black Panthers and digital humanities

Feb 1, 2018

We start this week with Magic as a Political Crime in Medieval and Early Modern England: A History of Sorcery and Treason by Francis Young. Coral Casey-Stoakes thinks this book makes an important contribution to both the historiography of political culture in medieval...

Latest reviews – Holocaust memories, slave reproduction and Irish emigrés

Jan 18, 2018

We start this week with Survivor Café: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory, an innovative book by Elizabeth Rosner. Ellis Spicer believes this book’s contribution to the field lies in its raw emotionality, personal stories and thematic strengths...

February issue of Historical Research

Jan 15, 2018

Historical Research, vol. xci, no. 251 Articles: Simon de Montfort’s sheriffs, 1264–5. Richard Cassidy Counties without borders? Religious politics, kinship networks and the formation of Catholic communities. James E. Kelly ‘Round-head Knaves’: the Ballad of...

Latest reviews – C19 consumption, medieval religion, modern magic and 10 commandments revisited

Jan 11, 2018

Happy New Year to all Reviews in History readers! We start 2018 with the latest in our occasional podcast series, a fascinating interview with Joanna Cohen discussing among other things her new book, Luxurious Citizens: The Politics of Consumption in...

New Historical Research articles

Dec 18, 2017

Troubling agency: agency and charity in early nineteenth-century London. Megan Clare Webber (This article is a revised version of a paper given at the British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar at the Institute of Historical Research on 16 March 2016. It...