First up this week we have Broadcasting Buildings: Architecture on the Wireless, 1927-1945 by Shundana Yusaf, as Laura Carter and the author discuss a playful and scholarly new book (no. 1765, with response here). Then we turn to Helen Castor’s Joan of Arc: A History....
Of crofters, Celts and claymores: the Celtic Magazine and the Highland cultural nationalist movement, 1875–88 by Ian B. Stewart This article examines the cultural nationalist movement in the Scottish Highlands during the period 1875–88, through the lens of the Celtic...
Ballot papers and the practice of elections: Britain, France and the United States of America, c.1500–2000, a new Historical Research article by Malcolm Crook and Tom Crook. The humble ballot paper is a defining technology of elections throughout the world. This...
We start this week with a lively discussion between Felipe Fernandez-Armesto and Serge Gruzinski over the latter’s new work of comparative global history The Eagle and the Dragon: Globalization and European Dreams of Conquest in China and America in the Sixteenth...
We start this week with Reclaiming American Virtue: The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s by Barbara Keys. Umberto Tulli and the author discuss a book which offers a new interpretation and will pave the way for future historical scholarship (no. 1757, with response...
Contents: An unrealized cult? Hagiography and Norman ducal genealogy in twelfth-century England. Ilya Afanasyev Two oaths of the community in 1258. Joshua Hey Bishop William Laud and the parliament of 1626. Mark Parry ‘Now the mask is taken off’: Jacobitism and...
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