The story of nudity and nudism in the 20th century is a fascinating one, encompassing not just badminton-playing eccentric innocents, but Weimar Republic libertarians and anarchist radicals.Despite this (or maybe because of it?), there has been a lack of serious...
Labour party leadership outsider Andy Burnham has garnered some headlines today with the idea of a land value tax, and his claim that it is an idea that goes back to Thomas Paine is given credence in a new book dedicated to the history of the land issues in this...
Female rulers have been the subject of much interest among historians in recent years, with medieval queens such as Margaret of Anjou and Eleanor of Provence having volumes devoted to them, and a veritable industry springing up of studies of Tudor queens, most notably...
David Kynaston has successfully blended MO data with other sources in his popular recent studies of Austerity Britain and Family Britain, and with the release of the Mass Observation Archive online this material has been made far more easily availble to historians....
Last week saw a special issue of Reviews in History on environmental history, released to coincide with the July 2010 Anglo-American Conference on the same subject. It contains ten new reviews of books covering a variety of aspects of environmental history, including...
The intersection of science and industry in the English Enlightenment is the subject of two books reviewed this week, Industrial Enlightenment: Science, Technology and Culture in Birmingham and the West Midlands 1760-1820 by Peter M. Jones and The Derby Philosophers:...
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