When I was doing my History A-level in the early 1990s we were still using John Elliott’s Imperial Spain 1469-1716, quite remarkably given that it was originally published in 1963.Assuming this reflected more on Elliott’s lasting domination of the field...
The events of 1688 have been seen by historians following in the footsteps of the Macaulay as a ‘preserving’ revolution, which allowed Britain to avoid the fate of France and its ‘destructive’ revolution of a century later.Following recent...
This week (through total coincidence rather than any careful planning on my part I hasten to add) we have an interesting juxtaposition of two biographies and two works on religious history.It’s certainly difficult to draw any obvious parallels between the careers of...
For those interested in local history, a new book by Alan Fox seeks to test the hypothesis that there was, in England, a patchwork of historical regions (largely coinciding with major drainage basins) which in turn allied closely with pre-1974 counties – in...
This week in Reviews in History Alexander Cowan reviews Joanne Ferraro’s new book Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice. Illicit Sex and Infanticide in the Republic of Venice 1557-1789, which deals with taboos that contemporaries scarcely spoke about or recorded:...
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