Historical Research – new articles online

Three new Historical Research articles have been published on Early View:Administrative efficiency in fourteenth-century England: the delivery of writs based on evidence from the register of Bishop Martival. MICHAEL RAYThe archive of the official of Stow and the...

The End is Nigh?

Over the last two decades environmental history has become markedly more popular, both in terms of the number of books and articles published in this area and in the extent to which its concerns have begun to inform the discipline as a whole.As a taster for the...

The History of Adoption

Anyone interested in the history of adoption in this country in the first half of the twentieth century should check out the discussion on this week’s Reviews in History. The IHR’s Jenny Keating published the first full-length book on the subject last year...

Reviews in History – New Reviews 8 October 2009

Four new reviews and two responses have been published this week in Reviews in History.Our 800th review is a double-header, with Robert Poole tackling two histories of popular protest, Katrina Navickas’s Loyalism and Radicalism in Lancashire 1798-1815 and Adrian...

Reviews in History – New Reviews 24 September 2009

A variety of different subjects and periods are covered by the reviews this week.First Jill Steward appraises Susan Barton’s study of the beginnings of the Swiss tourism industry in her review (no. 796) of Healthy Living in the Alps: the Origins of Winter Tourism in...

Reviews in History – New Reviews 17 September 2009

This week features a special issue dedicated to various e-book resources relevant to history.Mark Herring of Winthrop University has spent his summer slaving over reviews of Gutenberg-e (no. 792), Humanities-e Books (no. 793), Medieval Sources Online (no. 794) and...