The winner of the IHR’s Pollard Prize this year is Julie Mumby with ‘The descent of family land in later Anglo-Saxon England’ (originally given to the Earlier Middle Ages seminar). The runner up was Antonia Fitzpatrick with ‘Mendicant order...
The intersection of science and industry in the English Enlightenment is the subject of two books reviewed this week, Industrial Enlightenment: Science, Technology and Culture in Birmingham and the West Midlands 1760-1820 by Peter M. Jones and The Derby Philosophers:...
Following on from last week’s look at female scientists in the Victorian era, Reviews in History features another piece of nineteenth-century-sited gender history this week, with a review by Amy Erickson of Alison Kay’s new book The Foundations of Female...
This week in Reviews in History Alisa Miller reviews Annette Becker’s Apollinaire: une biographie de geurre 1914-1918-2009, a portrait of one man’s attempt to understand his own life and history in the context of a war that was revelatory for those who lived...
As is inevitable for a man who managed both the V-2 program for the Nazi regime and the Saturn V rocket development program for NASA, Wernher von Braun remains a controversial figure. As well as appearing as a character in Thomas Pynchon’s 70s classic...
M. L. Connelly’s new article now published online explores the connection between the army, the press and the Unionist party during the so-called ‘Curragh incident’ of March 1914 in which certain army officers expressed their unwillingness to impose...
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