New Historical Research articles online

Two new Historical Research articles have been published online:Some newly identified documents from the military survey of Warwickshire, 1522 by Penelope UptonRecorda splendidissima: the use of pipe rolls in the thirteenth century byRichard CassidySee our Early View...

New issue of Historical Research

The November issue of Historical Research (vol. LXXXIV, no. 226) is now available.Articles:Church, state and law: solutions to lay contumacy in the Anglo-Scottish borders during the later thirteenth century. Philippa M. HoskinGrave stuff: litigation with a London...

Whatever happened to postmodernism?

By the 1990s, even historians were finding it difficult to ignore the potential implications of what was variously described as postmodernism, post-structuralism, or the linguistic or cultural turn. Theory, so often seen as dangerously continental, even succeeded in...

New Historical Research article: the parliaments of James VI

Using draft legislation from the period 1573–1621, Alan MacDonald’s new article reconstructs the Scottish parliamentary process under James VI. It examines how proposals reached parliament, how they were amended and approved in committee and before the full...

Common Sense?

In her new book, Common Sense: A Political History (see here for in-depth review and author’s response), Sophia Rosenfeld points out the diverse ways common sense has been used throughout history as well as what it actually stands for.The novelty of her...

Voices of the Lowly

One of the books covered this week by Reviews in History is Memory of War in France, 1914–45: César Fauxbras, the Voice of the Lowly by Matthew Perry, which aims to bring to attention the voice and viewpoint of a dissident French intellectual who lived through both...