Research into the history of crime in London has been transformed since the proceedings of the Old Bailey went online in 2003, and the author of a new book on the subject admits that he visits this siteat least two or three times a week.Drew Gray’s Crime,...
Shlomo Sand’s The Invention of the Jewish People, as might be guessed from its title alone, caused something of stir when published last year. Its review in the New York Times was one of the most widely read pieces on the web, remarkably for a history book, and...
This week on Reviews in History two new resources for historians of slavery are reviewed, Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database and Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007. The latter date is of course significant in marking the 200th anniversary...
Anyone interested in how the profession of nursing in this country developed as it did should check out a new institutional history of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN). Reviewed this week in Reviews in History, the book charts the complicated path the RCN had to...
Reviews in History, IHR Digital’s online journal, is offering a listing service of links to other reviews from today. The aim is to allow readers to compare and contrast a number of opinions of the books and resources featured each week. Some initial examples of...
This week on Reviews we have a welcome reappraisal of a neglected classic, William McGrew’s Land and Revolution in Modern Greece, 1800-81, first published in 1985. Our reviewer Eugenia Russell reckons this to be the most important monograph on the early modern history...
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