This week on Reviews we have a welcome reappraisal of a neglected classic, William McGrew’s Land and Revolution in Modern Greece, 1800-81, first published in 1985. Our reviewer Eugenia Russell reckons this to be the most important monograph on the early modern history...
Highlights from the latest issue of Historical Research include:Anne Duggan on Roman, canon and common law in 12th-century England; Benjamin Wild on the jewel accounts of King Henry III; a look at the Free Christian Union, 1867–70, by Michael Ledger-Lomas and at war...
John Foster, Muir Houston and Chris Madigan examine employment relations, sectarianism and class formation among Catholic and Protestant Irish immigrants in 19th century Clydeside and Lanarkshire. New article available on Historical Research Early View.
The story of nudity and nudism in the 20th century is a fascinating one, encompassing not just badminton-playing eccentric innocents, but Weimar Republic libertarians and anarchist radicals.Despite this (or maybe because of it?), there has been a lack of serious...
Labour party leadership outsider Andy Burnham has garnered some headlines today with the idea of a land value tax, and his claim that it is an idea that goes back to Thomas Paine is given credence in a new book dedicated to the history of the land issues in this...
William Mulligan contends that the revolutionary event in 1870, as far as British foreign policy was concerned, was the collapse of French power, rather than the unification of Germany. By focusing on the latter and Anglo-German relations generally, historians have...
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