Historical Research, vol. xc, no. 249 Contents: Getting out of jail: suicide, escape and release in late medieval and Renaissance Bologna. Trevor Dean The 1553 succession crisis reconsidered. Paulina Kewes Whose city? Civic government and episcopal power in...
We start this week with Understanding the Imaginary War: Culture, Thought and Nuclear Conflict, 1945-90, edited by Matthew Grant and Benjamin Ziemann.Mattias Eken and the editors discuss a detailed and thorough presentation of the cultural history of the Cold War (no....
We start this week with Becoming Atheist: Humanism and the Secular West by Callum Brown. Russell Blackford and the author discuss a book which raws on the methods of oral history to examine how Western nations became markedly more secular in the long 1960s (no. 2136,...
Congratulations to the winners of the Pollard and Neale prizes: Sir John Neale Prize in Early Modern British History The Neale Prize is awarded annually to a historian in the early stages of his or her career for an essays on a theme related to the history of early...
We start this week with Britain’s Imperial Retreat from China 1900-1931 by Phoebe Chow. Andrew Hillier and the author discuss a fresh and engaging, if not wholly convincing piece of imperial history (no. 2132, with response here). Next up is Miia Ijäs’ Res...
We start this week with The Cry of the Renegade: Politics and Poetry in Interwar Chile by Raymond Craib. Camila Gatica and the author discuss a microhistory of Chile that allows the reader to make uncomfortable connections with the current situation of the country...
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