New Reviews: Edinburgh sanitation, Conservative Party, London Zoo, medieval revolution and reform
This week, along with the rest of the country’s media, Reviews is focussing on Edinburgh – but rather than referenda, it’s the sewers we’re interested in, as Tom Crook and authors Paul Laxton and Richard Rodger discuss Insanitary City: Henry Littlejohn and the...New Reviews: Middle Ages, Mexican conservatism, smell and prohibition
Our featured piece this week is on The Modern Origins of the Early Middle Ages by Ian Wood. Paul Fouracre and the author discuss a thoroughly researched and written tour de force (no. 1650, with response here). Next up is Benjamin Smith’s The Roots of Conservatism in...New reviews: Britain and Hollywood, early modern women, early modern heresy, early modern authority
Just back from the other side – no, not a near death experience, but a quick visit to the almost finished new look IHR! There’s a smell of fresh paint, the books are in place, and the librarians have the thousand-yard stares that come with weeks of twelve-hour days...New reviews: Archbishop Pole, post-war children, scholastic thought and Charles Darwin
First up this week we have Archbishop Pole by John Edwards, as Francis Young and the author discuss a magnificent example of first-rate historical scholarship (no. 1642, with response here). Next we turn to Lost Freedom: The Landscape of the Child and the British...