Manning the Barricades

Reviews in History features a timely book this week, as Pamela Pilbeam and Mark Traugott discuss the latter’s The Insurgent Barricade. This traces the use of barricades in public uprisings from the Day of the Barricades in 1588 through to the Paris Commune of...

The more the merrier when it comes to open-access publishing

The IHR’s Reviews in History has recently partnered with recensio.net to bring its reviews to a wider audience than ever before. Recensio.net, launched in January, is an open-access reviews platform for European history developed by the Bavarian State Library,...

History wars – when history matters

This week on Reviews in History we review History at the Crossroads. Australians and the Past by Paul Ashton and Paula Hamilton, a book which arose out of the authors’ study of the way Australians think about and use their past.Though the histories of all...

The Mediterranean – a flourishing historical concept

Focusing on the Mediterranean as a historical concept (as opposed to a strictly geographical one) was was the brainchild of one of the pioneers of ‘total’ history, Fernand Braudel, French historian and one of the most prominent members of the second...

Reviews in History publishes its 1,000th review

Reviews in History, IHR Digital’s online journal, publishes its 1,000th review today – its special issue can be found here. Launched in 1996, Reviews covers books and digital resources across every area of historical interest, with all reviews being...