1983

Until 1883, the Football Association Cup was won every year by former public schoolboys. As Christopher Andrew shows here, at the Cup Final that May, a working-...

Margaret Wade Labarge

Keith McCulloch on a splendid new selection of texts

Kenneth D. Brown on a volume of essays worthy of the scholar they honour

Ronald Pearsall on a lively general history of disgraced figures

T.P. Wiseman compares two major new contributions to ancient history

Kevin Sharpe on a new book which opens up the world of early modern English Protestantism to scholarly scrutiny

M.T. Clanchy is impressed by a comprehensive survey of later medieval historical writing

John Ramsden finds a new approach to Churchill lively and entertaining

Nigel Saul finds much of interest in a poineering edited collection on medieval occupational identity

Roderick Floud continues our special feature on the Industrial Revolution with a look at the impact of industrialisation on the British people.

Roy Porter recommends a new history of the early Romantics

Ian Bradley on the first volume in a new biography of Gladstone

W.A. Coupe argues that German cartoonists ridiculed Hitler as a Chaplinesque little man, so it was easy not to take him seriously – until it was too late.

Paul Dukes compares two works from Russian historians on Anglo-Russian cultural contacts

Sallie Purkis shows how oral history sources were used by schoolchildren in a Cambridge local history project.

Peter J. Beck explores how Argentina's claim to the Falkland Islands has involved diplomacy carried on by cartographic and philatelic means for nearly two...

Alan Borg presents various views of the historic Austrian capital.

'History is a reinterpretation of the past which leads to conclusions about the present' wrote Arnaldo Momigliano. Taking that lead, John M. Carter explores the...

John Burnett compares two memoirs of life at the rough end of 19th and early 20th century Britain

The Pastoral Impulse in Victorian England from 1880 to 1914 by Jan Marsh

Geoffrey Warner continues our series on Post-War Reconstruction.

Victor Bailey look at the movement that began on the evening of October 4th, 1883, when a young Glasgow Sunday School teacher, William Smith, opened the doors of his...

The English philanthropist was born on August 24th, 1759. Ian Bradley explains how his reputation as a champion of the abolition of slavery, evangelical and...

Paul Preston on a plethora of new books of uneven quality on the Spanish Civil War

Edited by Isabel Rivers

Rosemary Auchmuty on an uneven guide to the state of Australian history

David French presents an overview of the historiography on the subject.

Stephen Isherwood reflects on the secret British organisation put in place for the duration of the First World War

Stephen Usherwood on an intriguing personal memoir of British wartime activities at Bletchley Park

Alan Ryan discusses the short and acrimonious history of the social services.

John Cohen reviews a book byAndrew Sanders.

Charles Carlton.

K.R.M. Short on an over-priced but fascinating history of propaganda on the big screen

R.J. Morris begins the second part of our special feature on the Industrial Revolution, asking what were the effects of the Industrial Revolution on class and...

Roy Porter compares two surveys of 18th century literature and history English Literature in History 1780-1830. Pastoral and Politics Roger Sales. 247 pp. (...

by Alan Ross

Films interest the modern historian for they reflect the preoccupations and conventions of an age. In this article, Jeffrey Richards shows how the British cinema-...

The Industrial Revolution was one of the greatest discontinuities in history. It still generates lively debate. Why did it begin in Britain when it did? How...

The battle for the Labour Party is not only a clash of ideologies. As Trevor Fisher argues here, it is also about control of the party – an issue that was...

Douglas Johnson asks what political or military intrigues lay behind the sudden recall to power, twenty-five years ago this month, of Charles de Gaulle, the...

William Doyle on a close analysis of political revolution in Paris

Ivan Roots considers a new study of Renaissance dreams of ideal worlds

Colin Jones on a powerful new collection of essays providing a new angle on the history of the 18th century.

Ronald Pearsall immerses himself in 19th century fashionable living

Ivan Roots considers a scholarly history or torture in English law

In the third of our series of articles on faction, Kevin Sharpe shows how, in the early 17th century, the monopoly of patronage by a court favourite distorted the...

At the start of the reign of Charles II, government was the King's business and factions contested for the monarch's ear. The constitutional changes in later...

Jeffrey Daniels wants museum-going to be a more selective activity.

Keith Robbins ponders on how historians can construct a United Kingdom.

Douglas Johnson considers whether anecdotes are a mark of the self-indulgent historian.

Jonathan Steinberg reveals his fondness for facts, the underpinnings of history.

Roy Porter listens to the words historians use.

Peter Beck urges an aggressive campaign in the defence of the study of history.

Carl Degler asks 'Can the American past be put back together again?'

Ronald Hutton celebrates of the role of imagination in the writing of history.

Douglas Johnson presents a survey of the latest works on France under the Nazi regime

The Hundred Years War was fought on French soil. What effects did this have on the lives of the rural French communities?

Jeremy Black compares two histories of titans of the British press

William J. Fishman on a masterly survey of the economic roles of English Jews

by Patrick A. Dunae

In 1945, Europe was devastated by the effects of the Second World War. The determination to reconstruct Europe was forged both from the disaster of war and from...

David Starkey on The English Renaissance Miniature.

David French compares two books on early 20th century media in Britain.

Christian Hesketh on a useful and sumptous inventory of historic buildings north of the Border

Robin Lenman on an original survey of German support for the Nazi regime

The Marshall Plan was the response of the United States to the European financial crisis of 1947. As Scott Newton explains here, this crisis threatened to destabilise...

Peter BurkeM is impressed by a vivid and detailed biography of Maximilian I

Denis Judd on an uneven survey of British viceroys in India

Elisabeth Darby and Nicola Smith look at the impact of the death of Victoria's consort.

Margot Heinemann on the paradoxes of Andrew Marvell

As Robert Lowe Hall, Lord Roberthall was the first British representative on the Economic and Employment Commission. In April 1947 he became Director of the...

Ben Shephard on survey of European explorers in Africa.

Barrie Trinder examines the cradle of the Industrial Revolution.

In his book, The Compleat Angler, Izaak Walton, who died three hundred years ago this month, provided generations of anglers with a technique manual, a pastoral idyll...

K.Z. Cieszkowski on the visual chronicler of scentific and industrial developments in the 18th century Midlands.

by Kenneth Rose

J.P. Kenyon finds a symposium collection a valuable guide to the study of Jacobitism

Richard Clogg commemorates the 150th anniversary of the death of the prominent agitator for Greek nationhood.

Kuwait has enjoyed wealth far longer than the other oil producing states of the Middle East and is proud to spend its riches on its heritage, as Philip Mansel...

Peter Clarke presents a review of the historiography on the topic.

'It's no fish ye're buying - it's men's lives', wrote Sir Walter Scott, and looking at the fishing industry in Scotland in the last century involves a vivid...

Brian Dobson takes an aerial view of Roman Britain

by Prince Michael of Greece

Tony Mason considers the history of sport.

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, translated by Alan Sheridan

Martin Luther, explains Lyndal Roper, summarised his view of sex, marriage and motherhood in a letter he wrote to three nuns in 1524, 'A women does not have...

Francis Robinson explains how his perception of Islam is reflected in his book, Atlas of the Islamic World since 1500 (Phaidon, 1982).

Karl Marx lived in exile in London for thirty years. David McLellan explores how he studied the laws of capitalism and political economy in the prosperous Victorian...

Alan Sked surveys the historiographical treatment of the notoriously long-winded Habsburg politician.

Peter Quennell welcomes the completion of major new edition of the Pepys Diary

Tien Ju-Kang explains how, during the Mongol Yuan dynasty, the government entered into an unlikely and uneasy alliance with Chinese pirates to ensure the supply of...

David Chandler on a new biography of the first Duke of Marlborough and his wife

Keith Hopkins shows that gladiatorial shows in Ancient Rome turned war into a game, preserved an atmosphere of violence in time of peace, and functioned as a...

Keith Robbins on a monumental survey of the 20th century world

Barbara Heldt reveals that the brave Russian Cossack, Aleksandrov, was in fact a woman, Nadezhda Durova, who had renounced her unhappy female self.

Nancy Lockwood Adler considers the restructuring of the Sicilian town in the wake of the destructive earthquake of 1693.

In the second of our article on Governing the Capital, Ian Doolittle argues that it was during the great reforming Liberal ministry of Gladstone in 1880-85, that the...

Joan Lane reviews a book on early modern English medicine.

T.P. Wiseman on ancient forests and their uses

John Keegan on a remarkable history of Clausewitz

Ratna M. Sudarshan on an uneven, but enjoyable, history of the international telephone company, STC

Paul Thompson looks at the newest and oldest form of history.

F.M.L. Thompson looks at the public reception of the artist George Elgar Hicks.

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A Yearbook, Volume I: 1982

Tony Mason on a thorough exploration of the heyday of the seaside resort

Robert Thorne asseses and appreciates Nikolaus Pevsner's approach to the English buildings he so assiduously and so personally surveyed.

Coffee from Ethiopia to Brazil, rubber from Brazil to Malaya... Lucile Brockway shows how the transfer of seeds and plants across continents has had enormous...

Historic FA Cup medals on show in Blackburn.

Jeremy Seabrook is impressed by this study of working-class life and finances

Roger Morgan on a masterly survey of the rise of a modern European identity

David Englander is unimpressed by a new textbook on the decline of imperial Britain

Christopher Read explores the historiography of Russia under Joseph Stalin.

Paul Cartledge surveys the historiographical treatment of the ancient Greeks.

Ivan Roots surveys the historiography of the Cromwellian régime.

Brendan Bradshaw reveals the persuasive yet contrasting arguments within recent literature on the Reformation and Counter-Reformation.

Gerrard Roots on a survey of the rise of modern advertising

by William S. Hanson and Gordon S. Maxwell

D. Cameron Watt reviews a book on FDR by Wayne S. Cole.

C.T. Allmand reviews two very different approaches to the Middle Ages.

Tony Mason dips into a collection of extracts from the Victorian Sporting Magazine

Clive Emsley on a new attempt to probe the mentalite of 19th century French life.

John Lowerson shows how, at the turn of the century, the English middle class seized with enthusiasm on the sport of golf, for it was leisurely, sociable - and...

Martin Stanton shows that to take a dip in the sea at Margate is to take part in a long historical process with cultural, sexual, medical, economic and social...

Rodney Pasley

by Douglas Dodds-Parker

What role did Simon Bolivar play in the history of Venezuela's declaration of independence from Spain? Here John Lynch argues that the history of Spanish American...

Lindsey Hughes on a comprehensive survey of early modern labour conditions in Russia

A.H.M. Kirk-Greene on the posthumous publication of a memoir of the life of a British woman in Nigeria

by John Springhall, Brian Fraser and Michael Hoare

M.C. Ricklefs is impressed by a new textbook on Malaysian history

John Kellett asks whether new proposals for the government of London in the 1880s would have created an enclave of revolution and radicalism in England, as had...

D. Cameron Watt on a difficult but essential book on international relations from 1830 to the end of the Second World War

What caused former Englishmen to declare their separate identity as Americans? Ian R. Christie explores the issues underlying British recognition of United States...

Ronald Pearsall reviews.

Daniel Bertaux presents an oral history of a traditional French industry.

The role of the Church in wartime has always been ambiguous. Today, with the question of nuclear weapons to the fore, churchmen are again in conflict over the moral...

N.E.R. Fisher surveys the historiographical treatments of these ancient democratic states, in this month's Reading History.

John Gallagher, edited by Anil Seal

Ronald Pearsall reviews a new local history book.

Martin McCauley continues our series of articles on the Post-War Reconstruction.

1921 was an annus terribilis for the fishing communities of north-east Scotland - and the despair of the fisher folk, explains John Lowe Duthie, led them to...

Helen Rosenau

Jeffrey Weeks on a major new contribution to the debate on early modern sexuality

Richard J. Evans on a significant new study of German society under the Nazi regime

Peter Carey on a landmark in the history of the nation.

Eveline Cruickshanks reviews a book by F.J. McLynn

Robin Lenman is intrigued by a new look at the court of Wilhelm II

Paul Cartledge finds a new work struggling to deal with the complexity of Greek ideas of monarchy

J.R. Whittam on a powerful analysis of Italy in the early 20th century

Ian Bradley on a well-edited collection on the history of British Liberal Politics

by Muriel St Clare Byrne

Charles Mosley welcomes a new history of the Dukes of Norfolk

Robert Thorne luxuriates in this well-illustrated exploration of the 19th century obsession with the Middle Ages

V.G. Kiernan finds a new book on this key topic challenging and stimulating

Barrie Trinder reviews a book on Britain's industrial past.

W.A. Coupe on a tabloid paper as a microcosm of Weimar Germany

Lyndal Roper finds a new book on the German uprising essential reading

How the life of 16th-Century Reformer Martin Luther contributed to the future of Germany, even the rise of Fascism, as Thomas A. Brady, Jr. discusses...

Ivan Roots finds a biography of the Stuart Parliamentarian disappointingly superficial

Ruth Kastner reveals commemorations through the ages for the 16th-Century Reformer Martin Luther, revealing changing political views since his death.

Bob Scribner looks at contemporary views of the Protestant reformer, Martin Luther.

Five hundred years after Richard III came to the throne, Jeffrey Richards seeks to evaluate those 'tales' and explain the continuing fascination of the short reign...

Fifty years ago this month, Adolf Hitler was appointed Reich Chancellor of Germany by the aging President Hindenburg. How were the Nazis able to 'seize power' in...

Church and Society in Sixteenth-Century Scotland by Ian B. Cowan

Roger Pethybridge continues our series on the Post-War reconstruction of Europe.

Ivan Roots is impressed by this history of the 17th century relations between Holland and Spain

Ronald Pearsall on an interesting, but frustratingly-presented, account of the build-up to the outbreak of the Great War

Martin McCauley on a wide-ranging survey of national identity and politics in Eastern Europe

Irene Coltman Brown on a welcome new insight into the intellectual landscape of 17th century Britain

Ivan Roots compares two new books on the Thomases More and Wolsey

Chris Cook continues our special feature on the Work Ethic.

Ivan Roots on a new history of radical 17th century English sect

William Lamont finds a new edition of 17th century literature far from comprehensive

William Doyle reviews two approaches to 18th century Irish history of contrasting quality.

John Ehrman

Whenever the nation went to the polls in eighteenth-century England, the small hamlet of Garrat staged its own mock election. But, as John Brewer shows here, this was...

Nancy H. Demand

Kenneth Walthew explains how, on a visit to Malta for medicinal purposes, Thomas Bowdler the purifyer of English literature, found himself involved in a farce which...

Philip Mansel on a history of global rulers

Martin Daunton explores 19th century production on both sides of the Atlantic.

Stuart Andrews shows how, in his person and in his writings, Tom Paine forms a link between the two great revolutions of the late eighteenth century - the American...

Peter Stansky contrasts two socialist visions for the world, one optimistic and one pessimistic.

Alan Crawford looks back over twenty-five years of The Victorian Society.

Although there has always been a public eager to read or hear the narration of past events, the 'History Men' - scholars writing professional history based on...

Asa Briggs reviews three books on nineteenth century European architecture.

Colin Jones on an astonishing new study of medieval piety

Anthony Adamthwaite compares two of the many recent publications on the Second World War

Jonathan Haslam surveys the life and work of the great historian, and his fascination with Soviet Russia.

Gillian Williams on the promise of watercolourist and engraver, Wenceslaus Hollar, when he petitioned Charles II to allow him to accompany the British Ambassador...

Edward Countryman explores the relationship between cinematic images and the American history.

Simon Adams is intrigued by a new life of the Stuart noble

Anthony Sutcliffe considers the contribution which urban history has made to our understanding of the past – and its likely use in the future.

Patriotism, propaganda, profit - Anthony Tuck finds that these were the motives that led Englishmen to fight in France.

Roger Opie begins our special feature on the work ethic, including a bibliography by Patrick Joyce

Roy Porter on a Scottish doctor who became the fashionable surgeon of choice in 18th century London.

150 years ago this month, William Wilberforce died. As Ian Bradley showshere, in those years, his reputation as champion of the abolition of slavery, evangelical...

A new booklet on the Ministry of Information and its wartime messages to the British public.

Julia Phillips charts the history of women in British society.

Jeremy Seabrook