1988

John Childs surveys the remarkable career of a professional soldier who fought for six nations yet remained consistent to his church and personal principles

Roger Whiting explores sets of playing cards at the time of the Spanish Armada and the Glorious Revolution.

The restoration of Sheffield’s famous cutlery industry and the historic Globe works

Steven Ellis considers how the new history of early modern Britain is becoming less Anglocentric.

Glen Barclay considers how far Australian intervention in Vietnam marked a watershed in the country's willingness to send its troops abroad to fight for distant...

Cultural cataclysm or merely a modification of an Anglo-Saxon status quo? Antonia Gransden looks at views, past and present, of the Norman conquest.

Charles Wilson sets the scene for a special issue celebrating the tercentenary of the Glorious Revolution and England's 'Dutch Connection'.

Andrew Selkirk reviews the shortlist

Jonathan Wright and Paul Stafford examine the origins and significance of the document which has been claimed as the Fuhrer's premeditated masterplan for European...

Andrew Saint says goodbye to the home of the national newspapers.

Books on seventeenth-century noblewomen best known for their writings

Sectionalism and the American Civil War, 1848-1865

The History of Lebanon Reconsidered

A colourful account on the reopening of Castle Coole, the eighteenth century home in Northern Ireland.

Margaret M. Byard investigates the intriguing links between the astronomical discoveries of Galileo and the paintings of his Italian contemporaries.

Alexander Johnson on how changes in the Manpower Services Commission will impact on state-run projects.

Scapegoat or quisling extraordinaire? Douglas Johnson probes the motives and actions of Vichy's chief minister to find insularity and gamesmanship his fatal flaws...

A separatist assembly of Federalist New England at the height of war-weariness provided precedence and philosophy for future defiance of the Union.

Julie Richards-Williams examines the millennium of Christianity in Russia

Frank L. Holt looks at the legends and realities of Alexander's bride from Central Asia, the world she lived in and the power struggles that ensnared her.

Presbyterianism and English Conformist Thought from Whitgift to Hooker

Robert Beddard chronicles the indiscriminate orgy of looting and destruction unleashed in the vacuum between James' flight and William's arrival in the capital....

Works on early Christian communities

Edited by Patrick Curry

Four titles focusing on Australian history.

Our round-up of the offerings from publishers in Autumn 1988, previewing interesting and intriguing history books for both the general reader and the specialist.

Douglas Johnson reflects on the life and death of General de Gaulle.

Attracting businesses for Brussels heritage exhibitions

A new title by Michael Simmons on the history of the German capital since 1871

by Michael Holroyd

Peter Bowron looks into excavations found at a Middle Ages hospital in Scotland.

Ian Archer reviews a work by Jasper Ridley

Anthony Goodman looks into the Scottish border culture.

Angela Morgan tells the story of the remodelling of Boscobel House in Shropshire.

Dymphna Byrne looks forward to the 400th anniversary of the Spanish Armada

Three new titles on the 1914-1918 war and its science and politics

Was Britain prepared for war in 1938? Not in the air, argues John Crossland, as he investigates the myths and penny-pinching that nearly scuppered the Spitfire...

Tom Nairn looks at the role of the monarchy and its impact on British national identity.

Tony Aldous comments on a scheduled ancient monument on the Settle-Carlisle Line.

Michael House examines the life of the unconventional poet.

by H.R. Trevor-Roper

Keith Nurse describes the warlike aristocracy uncovered by an archaeological finding in Yorkshire.

The creation of the powerful propaganda image of the early medieval king as divinely-inspired and sanctioned was the work not of Charlemagne but his lesser-known...

Missionary, failed MP, counter-revolutionary, Buddhist abbot – an extraordinary character is tracked through his secret lives by Bernard Wasserstein across the...

Jonathan Israel charts the progress from commercial competition to open war and finally 'snarling alliance' of two assertive naval powers.

A book by G.R. Searle

Studies in Tudor Social History

Clive Emsley discovers the Victorian underworld and the attempts to combat it.

Victor Bailey looks at the alarming rise in British crime in the second half of the twentieth century.

Timothy Curtis and J.A. Sharpe delve into the country's criminal past.

Society and Politics in the Cholera Years, 1830-1910

Three new titles discussing health and medicine from the Victorian era

Tony Aldous describes the restoration of Morwellham which was once one of the greatest copper ports in the Victorian empire.

Two hundred years before Captain Cook, Dieppe map makers placed the Portuguese flag on a large land-mass called Java-la-Grande approximately where Australia...

Ann Hills looks at history at the local level in Dorset

Two new books on the Atlantic trading system and slavery

Two new publications on Edinburgh in the Great War and after

by Richard A. Chapman

A Handbook of Etruscan Studies

J.B. Post builds a rich image of the world of criminality and justice at the end of the Middle Ages.

Rex Cathcart tells the tale of the strange Christmas and holiday custom that left teachers two or three hundred years ago risking life and limb.

John Williams, Eric Dunning and Patrick Murphy discuss the long history of British football hooliganism.

Roy T Matthews and Peter Mellini argue that the last 100 years have brought mixed fortunes for Britain’s family of national symbols.

A new title on the Italian astronomer whose quarrel with the Roman Catholic Church brought him to trial in 1633

Tony Aldous on mid-19th century plans for a railway station in the centre of London.

Two new titles exploring the iconography of Christmas and the Middle Ages

The grandest African ruins south of the Sahara and the enigmatic discovery of Ming China there.

David Birmingham reviews the historical dimensions of international definitions of human rights

by William P. L. Thomson

Film in the Second World War

Annette Bingham traces the status of a synagogue in the Far East

George Watson examines the changing meaning of the term from Machiavelli to Lenin.

The search for the tomb of Samuel de Champlain, the founder of New France

Kevin Sharpe reassesses the role that ideology, rhetoric and intellectual discussion played in the upheavals of seventeenth-century England.

Felix Barker discusses the little-known civil defence preparations to meet a Spanish invasion and looks at what might have happened.

Melanie Billings-Yun investigates President Eisenhower's motives and methods in the spring of 1954, when French collapse in Indochina brought pressures for direct...

Rex Cathcart examines how William's brief intervention in Ireland has provided a rallying-point in ideology and iconography for Protestants to the present day....

Derek Beales reviews a new book by Dino Carpanetto and Giuseppe Ricuperati (translated by Caroline Higgitt)

Peter Clarke looks at the memory of the influential economist

Alison Brown evaluates the life and scholarship of the great German historian of Renaissance Italy and his seminal influence on Western cultural history.

Why did Monmouth fail and William of Orange succeed? Robin Clifton investigates the tale of two rebellions.

Two new volumes of translated medieval texts

David Lowenthal explores Australian history

The revitalisation and history of the heart of Merseyside

'A painful lesson in international politics' - Anglo-Australian relations in the Second World War revealed the rhetoric of Empire not matched by a British...

Richard Cavendish looks at the impact of soap king Lord Leverhulme on the foundation of Port Sunlight.

'Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.' The colourful activities of a religious movement in the 1930s were to...

Ann Hills discusses publications by the Ordnance Survey

M.J. Rodriguez-Salgado reviews a book on Mary Queen of Scots.

by Patricia Crone

Hugh David considers the topic of historical anniversaries

Hugh David on ownership and morals in archaeology and history

The background to the recent mini-series on Jack the Ripper.

by Kenneth Hudson

Representations of Women in Victorian Britain

Nigel Nicolson reviews two new books on Napoleon

Richard Cavendish explores some Roman artefacts.

Books on the Middle East

Awkward cousins - Nigel Aston traces the response of the House of Orleans to the vicissitudes of the French throne and revolution

Robert Thorne investigates the nineteenth-century passion for views that has inspired the exhibition about to open at London's Barbican Art Gallery.

Books on European war, society and politics from the 16th century

Two new publications dealing with 19th-century politics.

Georgy Smirnov investigates the reforming policies in the USSR under Mikhail Gorbachev.

Were the Germans justified in executing a British merchant captain for ramming a U-boat in March 1915? Phyllis Hall considers a curious episode from the First...

Edited by P.J. Waller

Literature and History in Seventeenth-Century England

Bartholomew Dias' voyage to the Cape of Good Hope in the late 15th century marked the apex of an extraordinary Portuguese expansion overseas and the start of a...

Three books on French and Anglo-French history circa 1650-1750.

J.S. Cummins considers the impact of syphilis on the 16th-century world – a tale of rapid spread, guilt, scapegoats and wonder-cures, with an uncomfortable modern...

Iain McCalman discusses how politically motivated was the blackguarding by low life of high society in the Regency period.

Bill Speck considers the three-cornered manoeuvrings between Anglicanism, Dissent and Catholicism that culminated in the events of 1688-89.

J.H.M. Salmon new book on early modern Europe

Peter Burke reviews a new book on the Renaissance.

Tony Aldous looks at the redevelopment of the city of Lowell in America.

A project aimed at preventing the destruction of key historical events on film.

Essays on the History of Political Violence

Edward Corp visits the 17th-century royal apartments of the Chateau Vieux.

Michael Burleigh investigates how academia was pressed into service to legitimise Nazi imperialism in the conquered East.

The chance discovery of a 14th-century parchment charting the financial habits of Richard II

Popular obsession with German espionage in the early 1900s proved to be well-founded, as Nicholas Hiley shows in an examination of the prewar activites of a group...

J Mordaunt Crook examines the history of a Gothic church in West London.

Ann Hills on changes taking place at the Royal Greenwich Observatory and Herstmonceux Castle.

Julian Mann observes excavations of the Stuart garden at Kirby Hall.

Clive Emsley reviews

Taylor Downing, producer of a dramatised documentary about the Luddite disturbances in Regency England, talks about the making of the current-affairs-style...

by E.J.Hobsbawm

John Carr examines the treatment of race and equality in America in comparison with Great Britain.

David Chandler reviews a new work on William III.

Judith Herrin considers the Jekyll-and-Hyde output of Justinian's court historian, alternately respectful official chronicler and tabloid-style exposer of imperial...

Bill Wallace reviews

Chinese history from BC to the present.

by Barrie Ruth Straus

by John Kenyon

Richard Cavendish visits an organisation dedicated to preserving the memory of Oliver Cromwell.

British Government in Ireland, 1892-1920

Simon Esmonde Cleary considers a little-known anniversary - the death in 388 of an imperial usurper who became a link-man between the factual eclipse of Roman...

Anthony Tuck reviews a book by David Starkey et al.

Edited by Kenneth Baker

Conrad Russell reviews this new publication

by Judith Herrin

Early Christian thought and societies

Three volumes of a new series of extracts from the Manchester Guardian

Cartography in Prehistoric, Ancient and Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean

Tim Tatton-Brown reviews the picture of one of Anglo-Saxon England's best-known saints built up at a major exhibition in Canterbury for the millennium of his death...

John Morrill argues that recent scholarship is re-shaping our view of the fortunes of monarchy and Parliament between 1660 and 1688.

Two new titles on the medieval history of the Eurasian steppe

400 years ago this May, Spain's great Armada set sail, bent on the invasion and conquest of Elizabethan England. Simon Adams re-examines the strategic...

Jeffrey Richards looks at a stage where Victorian theatre attained its apogee

by Bronislaw Geremek

The Portuguese in India

The Bank of England Museum’s collection

Recent books dealing with different impacts of the First World War in Europe and the Middle East

The Invention of Politics in Classical Athens

Edited by Jeremy Black

New works on European Imperialism in the Americas

Sheridan Gilley reviews.

Texts on the French Revolutionary period

The Nazi War Against Homosexuals

New books on industry and technology in the Middle Ages

Andrew Roach explores the Romanian struggle for nationhood

Iain R. Smith looks at the changes in the study of South Africa's past.

by Paul Kennedy

by Gerald Newman

by Michael Grant

A History of Gibraltar by Sir William G.F. Jackson

A small, far-away country, but one whose tangled relations with its neighbours, Ian Armour suggests, lead inexorably to the debacle of 1914.

Edited by Peter Burke and Roy Porter

Two works examining 18th-century religion in Britain

Norman Davies reviews these two new works.

Volume I - Company of Adventurers, Volume II - Caesars of the Wilderness

Running after foreign gods - Richard Stoneman explains how Rome's Syrian rival, the city of Palmyra, and her formidable queen Zenobia influenced the religion and...

Russia in Crisis, 1604-1618

Alfred the Great was not the only one to be beset by Norseman – Simon Coupland and Janet Nelson re-interpret their impact on the mainland of 9th-century Europe.

Paul Cartledge reviews a new work by Simon Hornblower on the ancient Greek historian

John Crossland looks at the impact of statesman and soldier Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey.

Macdonald Daly and Gordon Riddell look back and reflect on the changes in public libraries

Social history titles looking at the 19th and 20th centuries in Britain and America

Brian Holden Reid opens our two-headed debate on the American Civil War by arguing that the South failed to use revolutionary methods to full advantage.

Charles Boxer examines the impact of 1688 on Anglo-Dutch relationship with nations east of Suez.