May 23, 2020
The IHR’s Reviews in History publishes weekly commentaries on new books. Our reviews are longer than those in many academic journals and focus on titles published in the last 6-12 months. Many reviews also include responses from the book’s author. Reviews...
Mar 15, 2019
Our highlight this month in Reviews in History is a fascinating discussion between Scott Newton and David Edgerton of the latter’s The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: a Twentieth Century History. This compelling book recasts 20th-century British history in...
Sep 6, 2018
We start this week with The Spectral Arctic: a Cultural History of Ghosts and Dreams in Polar Exploration by Shane McCorristine. Kristof Smeyers enjoys a thought-provoking, inspiring book, important in its approach to the study of the supernatural, and timely in its...
Dec 6, 2012
I’ve just come across The Journal of Digital Humanities a comprehensive, peer-reviewed, open access journal that features scholarship, tools, and conversations produced by the digital humanities community. It has published three volumes (beginning in 2011) and...
Jan 5, 2012
Perceptions of Scandinavia at the moment are governed by its seemingly endless production line of quality crime fiction and drama – the likes of Wallander, The Killing and the ubiquitious Girl With the Dragon Tattoo franchise, not to mention the terrifying work...
