Latest Reviews – Labour Party, medieval peacemaking, Irish poverty & crusaders

Nov 16, 2017

We kick off this week with John Gaffney’s Leadership and the Labour Party: Narrative and Performance. Christopher Massey believes this book provides vital reading for all interested in Ed Miliband’s leadership of the Labour Party and the development of political...

Latest reviews: William the Conqueror, Stefan Collini, blackface and Indian news

Nov 9, 2017

We begin this week with David Bates’ William the Conqueror. Matthew Bennett and the author debate the extent to which this biography shows sufficient empathy for its subject (no. 2192, with response here). Next up is Common Writing: Essays on Literary Culture...

Latest Reviews – US revolutionaries, French sexual revolution, Victorian historicism and London smoke

Nov 2, 2017

We begin this week with Tom Cutterham’s Gentlemen Revolutionaries: Power and Justice in the New American Republic. Lindsay Chervinsky praises a book which offers a complex and active view of the 1780s (no. 2189, with response here). Next up is From Vichy to the...

Open Access Week 2017: share and aware

Oct 27, 2017

Researcher awareness and engagement with open access data and sharing is increasing, that is according to a 2017 State of Open Data Report published by Figshare this week. This does not come as a surprise to me and, as a publisher of open access research in a variety...

Latest Reviews – Witches, Cats & Dogs, Soldiers and Print Culture

Oct 26, 2017

We begin this week with Ronald Hutton’s The Witch: A History of Fear From Ancient Times to the Present. Willem de Blécourt and the author debate – I think it’s fair enough to say that they don’t agree (no. 2185, with response)! Next up is The...

Historical Research survey and prize draw

Oct 20, 2017

  20 October – 12 November 2017 We would really like to hear what you think about the IHR’s journal, Historical Research. Please help by filling in our survey. All information provided will be kept anonymous and used solely for the purpose of...