Following on from last week’s look at female scientists in the Victorian era, Reviews in History features another piece of nineteenth-century-sited gender history this week, with a review by Amy Erickson of Alison Kay’s new book The Foundations of Female...
This week in Reviews in History Alisa Miller reviews Annette Becker’s Apollinaire: une biographie de geurre 1914-1918-2009, a portrait of one man’s attempt to understand his own life and history in the context of a war that was revelatory for those who lived...
As is inevitable for a man who managed both the V-2 program for the Nazi regime and the Saturn V rocket development program for NASA, Wernher von Braun remains a controversial figure. As well as appearing as a character in Thomas Pynchon’s 70s classic...
The England’s Past for Everyone is a local history project run by the Victoria County History. Volunteers throughout the country have worked alongside authors and researchers to produce a whole range of new resources.The project is now almost complete, and as well as...
The emergence of material culture as a subject for historical enquiry has brought to the fore the question of what constitute ‘proper’ sources for ‘proper’ history. Amanda Vickery’s new book Behind Closed Doors. At Home in Georgian...
From the end of the Second World War to its quiet abandonment in 1968 Britain operated a policy of civil defence, which sought to plan for both continuity of government and the survival of the British public in the event of a nuclear strike.A new book by Matthew Grant...
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