Two very different reviews are featured this week.In the first (no. 776) Jenny Benham enthuses over War and Peace in Ancient and Medieval History (edited by Philip de Souza and John France), a series of essays contextualising the evolution of peace treaties and truces...
We conclude our month of city-based pieces today with the following three reviews.In Portuguese Colonial Cities in the Early Modern World Liam Brockey edits a collection of articles focussing on cities with various degrees of connection to the Portuguese empire....
Prose and poetry are the source materials for two very different city-based studies this week. First James Gregory (no. 771) reviews Guilty Money: The City of London in Victorian and Edwardian Culture by Ranald Michie (see here for his response), which looks at the...
Still on the theme of cities and urban history there are two new reviews this week.In the first Kate Bradley reviews (no. 769) Andrew Davies’ book The Gangs of Manchester, the inspiration for the play Angels With Manky Faces which opens next week.New York is the...
More cities-based reviews for you this week…First we have Jacob Field reviewing (no. 767) Lost Londons: Change, Crime and Control in the Capital City 1550–1660, Paul Griffiths’ analysis of crime and migrant workers in London during this period. The author’s response...
This week sees the start of a month-long Reviews special on the theme of Cities and Urban History, to coincide with the Anglo-American Conference at the IHR (https://www.history.ac.uk/aac2009 or for twitter updates see https://www.history.ac.uk/aac/twitter.html) which...
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