As is inevitable for a man who managed both the V-2 program for the Nazi regime and the Saturn V rocket development program for NASA, Wernher von Braun remains a controversial figure. As well as appearing as a character in Thomas Pynchon’s 70s classic...
The England’s Past for Everyone is a local history project run by the Victoria County History. Volunteers throughout the country have worked alongside authors and researchers to produce a whole range of new resources.The project is now almost complete, and as well as...
The emergence of material culture as a subject for historical enquiry has brought to the fore the question of what constitute ‘proper’ sources for ‘proper’ history. Amanda Vickery’s new book Behind Closed Doors. At Home in Georgian...
From the end of the Second World War to its quiet abandonment in 1968 Britain operated a policy of civil defence, which sought to plan for both continuity of government and the survival of the British public in the event of a nuclear strike.A new book by Matthew Grant...
Academic history in the modern era has often been accused of being increasingly fragmented, with the proliferation of sub-disciplines and of ever more specific research within these. Yet ‘big’ histories of the sort pioneered by Fernand Braudel or William...
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