From this week it’s now possible to check reviews against the books themselves. Our latest review, courtesy of Google Books, is accompanied by a sneak preview of the book itself, a feature that will be available wherever possible in the future. Chris...
We’re close enough to Christmas for everyone to be aware of the subtle status games and power struggles involved in the ostensibly altruistic process of present-giving. Reassuringly, Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos’s new book The Culture of Giving: Informal...
The February issue of Historical Research (vol. 83, no. 219) is now available online and in print. Highlights include: Rupa Viswanath on’untouchables’ and religious neutrality in colonial south India; Alexander Watson and Patrick Porter on combat...
Four new Historical Research articles are now available on Early View: Protestant interests? The 1641 rebellion and state formation in early modern Ireland. JOHN GIBNEYCusade administration in fifteenth-century England: regulations for the distribution of indulgences...
Professor Ronald Hutton, perhaps this country’s foremost authority on the history of the druids, has produced two books on the subject in the last two years. Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain (which follows 2008’s The Druids: a...
Spices and the spice trade are the subject of a fascinating new publication by Paul Freedman, Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination. More than just a work of food history, Freedman’s book places the subject in its broader political, economic,...
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