Twitter at the Anglo-American Conference

This year’s Anglo-American Conference of Historians, on the theme of ‘Cities’, has official Twitter! Just include #aac_2009 somewhere in your own tweets to feed your thoughts directly onto the Anglo-American Twitter monitor.The IHR’s online...

Reviews in History – New Reviews 18 June 2009

Two review articles are published this week.   The first, by Katrina Gulliver, is concerned with the colonizer/colonized relationship and how individuals and groups negotiated their space in conflict, spanning the period from earlier colonization to the brink of...

Reviews in History – New Reviews 11 June 2009

This week we have reviews of books covering two very different subjects. First Sonja Levsen reviews (no. 760) Thomas Weber’s Our Friend ‘The Enemy’: Elite Education in Britain and Germany Before World War 1, which compares the university cultures of the two countries...

New book! The Creighton Century

The Creighton Century marks 100 years of the Creighton Lecture, containing 10 lectures introduced by historians from the University of London. They range from perceptions of the Industrial Revolution (Donald Coleman) to the situation of interwar Japan (Ian Nish) and...

IHR’s online bookshop gets a makeover

The Institute of Historical Research has just launched its new online bookshop at https://www.history.ac.uk/bookshop/. It’s now much easier to browse through the full range of books we publish, including research handbooks, edited collections, guides and...

Reviews in History – New Reviews 4 June 2009

After last week’s break, Reviews returns this week with four new books under discussion.Two of these are on Victorian England, with Victoria Le Fevre reviewing (no. 759, with reply here) Kathleen Callanan Martin’s Hard and Unreal Advice: Mothers, Social...