Sep 23, 2010
Anyone interested in how the profession of nursing in this country developed as it did should check out a new institutional history of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN). Reviewed this week in Reviews in History, the book charts the complicated path the RCN had to...
Sep 16, 2010
Reviews in History, IHR Digital’s online journal, is offering a listing service of links to other reviews from today. The aim is to allow readers to compare and contrast a number of opinions of the books and resources featured each week. Some initial examples of...
Sep 10, 2010
This week on Reviews we have a welcome reappraisal of a neglected classic, William McGrew’s Land and Revolution in Modern Greece, 1800-81, first published in 1985. Our reviewer Eugenia Russell reckons this to be the most important monograph on the early modern history...
Sep 3, 2010
The story of nudity and nudism in the 20th century is a fascinating one, encompassing not just badminton-playing eccentric innocents, but Weimar Republic libertarians and anarchist radicals.Despite this (or maybe because of it?), there has been a lack of serious...
Aug 27, 2010
Labour party leadership outsider Andy Burnham has garnered some headlines today with the idea of a land value tax, and his claim that it is an idea that goes back to Thomas Paine is given credence in a new book dedicated to the history of the land issues in this...
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