Reviews in History website relaunched

The new Reviews in History website can be found here. All the content from Reviews’ previous incarnation is here, but with much improved search- and browsability and (we hope) a more aesthetically pleasing look. Feedback is welcome and should be sent to the...

St George and the English Nation

St George is a mysterious figure in many ways, claimed as their own by many different countries. How and why he emerged as the patron saint of England is the question Jonathan Good attempts to answer in his new book The Cult of St George in Medieval England, a review...

Ongoing War on Terror

With the British Army having spent much of the last decade engaged in counter-terrorism activities in Afghanistan and Iraq, now is a salient time to revisit a previous episode of this kind from the mid-20th century.David Cesarani’s Major Farran’s Hat: Murder,...

New Feature on Reviews in History

From this week it’s now possible to check reviews against the books themselves. Our latest review, courtesy of Google Books, is accompanied by a sneak preview of the book itself, a feature that will be available wherever possible in the future. Chris...

Don’t look a gift-horse in the mouth…

We’re close enough to Christmas for everyone to be aware of the subtle status games and power struggles involved in the ostensibly altruistic process of present-giving. Reassuringly, Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos’s new book The Culture of Giving: Informal...