Pseudohistory – where’s the evidence?

Reviews in History features an interesting debate this week on the subject of pseudohistory, with Douglas Allchin reviewing Ron Fritze’s new book Invented Knowledge: False History, Fake Science and Pseudo-religions. In it Fritze details a variety of examples of...

Open Access publishing

I note a very informative article that has just appeared in the Times Higher Educational Supplement. It covers a lot of ground, and sets out very clearly the competing visions of the future of scholarly publishing that are involved.

Free online access to our most popular articles

Free online access is available for six of the most popular articles from the last five volumes of Historical Research (2005-9):The shiring of East Anglia: an alternative hypothesis. LUCY MARTENA parliament full of rats? Piers Plowman and the Good Parliament of 1376....

Small and Special? Great Ormond Street Patient Admissions Database

A new electronic resource featuring almost a million patient records from Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital is reviewed this week on Reviews in History. This database, covering the period between the 1850s and the start of the First World War, is freely...

Sex and the Servants

The often confused and transgressive relationships between upstairs and downstairs have been a perennial literary subject, but the ways in which they have been depicted have changed significantly over time.Kristina Straub’s new work, Domestic Affairs: Intimacy,...