Reviews in History – New Reviews 16 July 2009

Still on the theme of cities and urban history there are two new reviews this week.In the first Kate Bradley reviews (no. 769) Andrew Davies’ book The Gangs of Manchester, the inspiration for the play Angels With Manky Faces which opens next week.New York is the...

Reviews in History – New Reviews 9 July 2009

More cities-based reviews for you this week…First we have Jacob Field reviewing (no. 767) Lost Londons: Change, Crime and Control in the Capital City 1550–1660, Paul Griffiths’ analysis of crime and migrant workers in London during this period. The author’s response...

Historical Research – New articles published online

Three new articles have been published online in our Early View issue on the Wiley-Blackwell/Historical Research website:’Unitarians and the contradictions of liberal Protestantism in Victorian Britain: the Free Christian Union, 1867–70′. MICHAEL...

Reviews in History – New Reviews 3 July 2009

This week sees the start of a month-long Reviews special on the theme of Cities and Urban History, to coincide with the Anglo-American Conference at the IHR (https://www.history.ac.uk/aac2009 or for twitter updates see https://www.history.ac.uk/aac/twitter.html) which...

Historical Research – New articles published online

Four new articles have been published online in our Early View issue on the Wiley-Blackwell/Historical Research website:’A spy on the payroll? William Herle and the mid Elizabethan polity’. ROBYN ADAMS’Edward IV’s Brief Treatise and the treaty...

Reviews in History – New Reviews 26 May 2009

Three new reviews have been published this week. In the first (no. 762) Trevor Burnard takes issue with David Abulafia’s account of the Spanish conquest of the Americas as found in his new book The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus....