‘You know I am all on fire’: writing the adulterous affair in England, c.1740–1830 by Sally Holloway This article analyses rare surviving adulterous love letters alongside published epistles and trial reports to reveal the practical and emotional importance of...
Reformative rhetoric and the exercise of corporal power: Alexander Maconochie’s regime at Birmingham prison, 1849–51 by J. M. Moore In March 1849 Alexander Maconochie, the former superintendent of the Norfolk Island penal settlement in colonial Australia and...
We start this week with the latest volume from the Victoria County History, The History of the County of Somerset. Volume XI: Queen Camel and the Cadburys, edited by Mary Siraut. Michael Hicks and the editors discuss a comprehensive, indispensable, and almost...
Happy New Year! We start 2016 with Remembering the Irish Revolution: Dissent, Culture, and Nationalism in the Irish Free State by Frances Flanagan. Sean Ledwith and the author discuss a thoughtful and scholarly contribution to an understanding of a generation that...
The decline of the Liberal party in the heart of England: the Liberals in Leicestershire, 1914–24 by Gavin J. Freeman This article uses the county of Leicestershire to examine the decline of the Liberal party from the outbreak of the First World War to the debacle of...
Treason, felony and Lollardy: a common petition in the hand of Richard Osbarn, clerk of the chamber of the Guildhall, 1400–c.143 by Helen Killick This article examines a common petition presented in the English parliament of 1425 requesting that those imprisoned for...
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