Reviews in History – New Reviews 21 May 2009

Three new reviews have been published this week.The first (review no. 753 and response) features a robust debate between William Rubinstein of the University of Aberystwyth and Tony Kushner over the latter’s latest book, Anglo-Jewry Since 1066: Place, Locality and...

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:’The bawdy master of St. Thomas’s hospital’. WILLIAM B. ROBISON'”Philosophically playing the Devil”: recovering...

Reviews in History – New Reviews 14 May 2009

Two new reviews have been published this week.First, Edward Rugemer’s examination of the implications for the United States of the abolition of slavery in the Caribbean is assessed for a UK scholarly audience for the first time (review no. 751) by Susan-Mary Grant of...

May 2009 issue of Historical Research

The May issue of Historical Research (vol. 82, no. 216) is now available online and in print. Highlights include: Natalie Zemon Davis on creole languages; Patrick Little on horse-breeding at the court of Oliver Cromwell; Virginia Berridge on medicine, public health...

Reviews in History – New Reviews 7 May 2009

Three new reviews have been published this week.Review no. 748, by Sean O’Connell of Queen’s University, Belfast, is of Georgine Clarsen’s recent work on female drivers in the first part of the 20th century, Eat My Dust: Early Women Motorists. Her response can be read...

Reviews in History – New Reviews 30 April 2009

Michael Oakeshott’s highly influential Experience and its Modes was published for the first time in 1933, and this philosophy of history classic has now been reappraised by Alexander Macfie.Elsewhere there are reviews of new books on topics as disparate as...