The IHR’s Reviews in History has recently partnered with recensio.net to bring its reviews to a wider audience than ever before. Recensio.net, launched in January, is an open-access reviews platform for European history developed by the Bavarian State Library,...
This week on Reviews in History we review History at the Crossroads. Australians and the Past by Paul Ashton and Paula Hamilton, a book which arose out of the authors’ study of the way Australians think about and use their past.Though the histories of all...
Focusing on the Mediterranean as a historical concept (as opposed to a strictly geographical one) was was the brainchild of one of the pioneers of ‘total’ history, Fernand Braudel, French historian and one of the most prominent members of the second...
Reviews in History, IHR Digital’s online journal, publishes its 1,000th review today – its special issue can be found here. Launched in 1996, Reviews covers books and digital resources across every area of historical interest, with all reviews being...
Many people would see our current celebrity-obsessed age as standing in stark contrast to the past, when renown was based on solid achievements. Fred Inglis, in his Short History of Celebrity (reviewed here this week in Reviews in History), demonstrates that the...
This week on Reviews in History we’re covering a selection of transport films recently made available by the London Transport Museum. However, besides these there is a wealth of other great stuff on the LTM site – including fantastic collections of...
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