Spices and the spice trade are the subject of a fascinating new publication by Paul Freedman, Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination. More than just a work of food history, Freedman’s book places the subject in its broader political, economic,...
The Grand Tour, the 18th-century aristocratic rite of passage retraced earlier this year for Channel 4 by Kevin McCloud, is the focus of a new digital resource.Produced by Adam Matthew Digital, The Grand Tour collates letters, diaries, printed guidebooks, travel...
Reviews in History has been accused with some justification in the past of concentrating too heavily on books of recent history. We’re making every effort to correct this imbalance, and as evidence of this two medieval history reviews have been published this...
Tempted though I was to blog this week about Evelyn Lord’s salaciously titled The Hell-Fire Clubs: Sex, Satanism and Secret Societies (reviewed here by Jason Kelly) I’ve decide instead to take the moral high ground, and point readers towards a book on...
The 19th century was ‘a period of energetic marital non-conformity amongst couples of all social classes’, at least according to Tanya Evans’ review of Ginger Frost’s Living in Sin: Cohabiting as Husband and Wife in Nineteenth-Century...
Who Will Write Our History? Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto, by Saul Kassow, tells the amazing story of the Oyneg Shabes, the archive compiled by Polish Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Second World War. This sought to chronicle the everyday...
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