The events of 1688 have been seen by historians following in the footsteps of the Macaulay as a ‘preserving’ revolution, which allowed Britain to avoid the fate of France and its ‘destructive’ revolution of a century later.Following recent...
This week (through total coincidence rather than any careful planning on my part I hasten to add) we have an interesting juxtaposition of two biographies and two works on religious history.It’s certainly difficult to draw any obvious parallels between the careers of...
The latest issue of the IHR’s magazine, Past and Future, is now available. This issue includes a trip behind the scenes of the V&A’s new Medieval and Renaissance galleries by curator Glyn Davies; an exploration of Soviet deaf theatre by Scouloudi...
For those interested in local history, a new book by Alan Fox seeks to test the hypothesis that there was, in England, a patchwork of historical regions (largely coinciding with major drainage basins) which in turn allied closely with pre-1974 counties – in...
Swati Chattopadhyay’s plenary lecture from last year’s Anglo-American conference has been published in article form in Historical Research’s online Early View issue. The article addresses a methodological problem of urban history faced with the...
This week in Reviews in History Alexander Cowan reviews Joanne Ferraro’s new book Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice. Illicit Sex and Infanticide in the Republic of Venice 1557-1789, which deals with taboos that contemporaries scarcely spoke about or recorded:...
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