Manchester University Press’s latest book in their Studies in Imperialism series is entitled Chocolate, women and empire: a social and cultural history by Emma Robertson. Surprisingly the first English book on chocolate was published in 1662 – The Indian...
British covert involvement in the Yemeni civil war is the topic of the Radio 4 programme Document (broadcast 8/3/2010). Using sources from The National Archives it traces British policy towards Yemen detailing the involvement of Julian Amery and the prime minister...
Feedback on the Bibliography of British and Irish History has frequently raised the question of compatibility with Zotero, the reference management extension for the Firefox web browser. We are pleased to report that our publishers, Brepols, hope to implement Zotero...
Joseph Hardwick’s new Historical Research article deals with a moment in the 1820s when British expatriates and middle-class Indians in Calcutta came together to form a multi-ethnic reform public. It argues that the origins of the reform movement should be...
Two new Historical Research articles are now available on Early View: The establishment of a statutory militia in Ireland, 1692–1716: legislative processes and Protestant mentalities. NEAL GARNHAMA man of peaceable intent: Burckhardt, the British and Red Cross...
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