We begin this week with Russia in the Microphone Age: A History of Soviet Radio, 1919-1970 by Stephen Lovell, as Allan Jones and the author debate an engrossing history of Soviet broadcasting (no. 1907, with response here). Next up is Angela Woollacott’s Settler...
Anne of Kiev (c.1024–c.1075) and a reassessment of maternal power in the minority kingship of Philip I of France by Emily Joan Ward This article is a reassessment of Anne of Kiev as mother and guardian in the early years of the minority reign of her son, Philip I of...
Historical Research celebrates International Women’s Day with free access to the following articles on women’s health: Female barrenness, bodily access and aromatic treatments in seventeenth-century England by Jennifer Evans Across the seventeenth century...
We start this week with Miles Taylor’s long-anticipated review of Artist and Empire: Facing Britain’s Imperial Past, as he praises a thought-provoking exhibition (running until 10 April), one of the best historically-themed shows that Tate Britain has done for some...
Paper salvage in Britain during the Second World War by Henry Irving This article builds upon recent scholarship on the recycling – or ‘salvage’ – schemes organized by the British government during the Second World War. Viewing the act of recycling as part of an...
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...
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