Reviews in History features an interesting debate this week on the subject of pseudohistory, with Douglas Allchin reviewing Ron Fritze’s new book Invented Knowledge: False History, Fake Science and Pseudo-religions. In it Fritze details a variety of examples of...
A new electronic resource featuring almost a million patient records from Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital is reviewed this week on Reviews in History. This database, covering the period between the 1850s and the start of the First World War, is freely...
The often confused and transgressive relationships between upstairs and downstairs have been a perennial literary subject, but the ways in which they have been depicted have changed significantly over time.Kristina Straub’s new work, Domestic Affairs: Intimacy,...
Over the last two decades environmental history has become markedly more popular, both in terms of the number of books and articles published in this area and in the extent to which its concerns have begun to inform the discipline as a whole.As a taster for the...
Anyone interested in the history of adoption in this country in the first half of the twentieth century should check out the discussion on this week’s Reviews in History. The IHR’s Jenny Keating published the first full-length book on the subject last year...
Four new reviews and two responses have been published this week in Reviews in History.Our 800th review is a double-header, with Robert Poole tackling two histories of popular protest, Katrina Navickas’s Loyalism and Radicalism in Lancashire 1798-1815 and Adrian...
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