1989

Felix Barker describes a new museum at the Sidneys of Penshurst stately home in Kent.

Edited by Glyndwr Williams and Alan Frost

Mass Communication and the Cultivated Mind in Britain between the Wars

Damien Gregory on the use of Fort Nelson over Portsmouth, a fort known as a fine example of Victorian military architecture.

by Ira M. Lapidus

The Middle Ages

by Lord Longford, with an introduction by Elizabeth Longford

Was Bruce as patriotic or as harmonious in his relationship with Wallace as the view of historical romance has handed down? Andrew Fisher investigates the meaning...

The partnership of man and horse on the land goes back a long time, but, as John Langdon shows, it was not until after the Conquest that the horse really began to...

David Thompson on the labour movement and an educational reformer and founder of the WEA.

Three new books on urban history and industrialisation on both sides of the Atlantic

There is nothing new in the practice of terrorism through hostage taking. Gregor Dallas traces its roots to the events in Paris during the Spring of 1871 when the...

A look into the long-lastng links between Britain and Holland forged during the war.

Conservation awards

by Robert H. Ferrell and Richard Natkiel

Art, Leisure and Parisian Society

Paul Dukes on the development of the White House and the Kremlin.

Ann Hills on the salvation of Undercliffe Cemetery, a Victorian necropolis

The role of espionage, the Cypher schools and Bletchley Park

by G. L. Harriss, a study of Lancastrian ascendancy and decline

The Road From Revolution, 1949-1989

An Intellectual History of Urban Planning in the Twentieth Century

General Editor, Emory Elliott

Damien Gregory investigates the debate over the proposed excavation of the Elizabeth Rose Theatre.

Michael Dillon looks at the little-known and less appreciated activities of a trader class that provided a solid base for the prosperity the Ming and Qing Chinese...

by Ramsay MacMullen

Peter Parker describes the difficulties in writing historical biographies and his effort on writer and editor J.R. Ackerley.

by J.D. Hargreaves

He may have crystallised our image of the Victorian Christmas, but is there a Dickens for all our seasons? Raphael Samuel embarks on an investigation of how film and...

Francis Robinson reviews two new books on Islam

Alan Thomas takes a look Samuel Plimsoll, the nineteenth century reformer who left his mark on ships all over the world.

Tony Aldous on the restoration of a mansion of an outstanding early 18th-century Scottish architect.

The current state of history teaching

Two biographies on the 18th-century historian by Roy Porter and Patricia B. Craddock

by Michael Prestwich

William Bird looks at how American business and commerce turned to the techniques of advertising and Hollywood to extol the merits of capitalism and free...

John Benson on the history of attempting to encourage people into self-employment and entrepreneurship.

Neil Dalton discusses the historic separation of the legal profession

Paul Preston reviews a book which outlines the efforts of the Italian state to destroy the criminal organisations of the south

Two new titles discussing law in the 19th-century Mediterranean

New publications on early modern France

Roy Macnab examines the ongoing debate on the two Frances of 1940 – epitomized on the one side by Petain and de Gaulle on the other – in the light of an heroic...

by David Abulafia

A Study of Ostforschung in the Third Reich

Recent books on the French Revolution.

Two scholarly monographs on 15th-century father and son

David Stephens discerns an undercurrent of social protest and complaint beneath the usual exuberance of the bagpiper in medieval art.

Robert Waller on the history, dangers and importance of opinion polls.

Simon Barclay on the archaeological discovery of a Charles II artillery fort

by Robert L. Herbert

New titles on the history of India

Edmund S. Morgan, the Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America

Two books on Italian Fascism and racism

by Denys Hay and John Law

by Austen Morgan

A new title exploring Sex, Saints, and Government in the Middle Ages

Immigration and British Society, 1871-1971

Biographies on a literary and an architectural figure from the 17th and 18th-centuries.

by Ian Ker

Essays presented to Sir Geoffrey Elton, Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge, on the occasion of his retirement

Michael Houses looks at the grievances and history of the troubled Middle East.

New local history publications

Oswald and Margaret Dilke discuss the work of the cartographer-cum-Crusade-propagandist Marin Sanudo, who used his work to urge on a 14th-century initiative to...

by Christine Weightman

Ann Hills explores long-term excavations on the ancient Central American civilisation.

Hugh David on Victoriana and Tony Benn

Hugh David on 1789 and 1939 on the air.

A Volume of Omissions in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Searching for the truth about the infamous mutiny

Ann Hills on the European links in the largest Central American country

A range of paperback titles focusing on Late Antiquity.

The history of Magic... The Murdered Magicians: The Templars and their Myth Peter Partner – Crucible, 1981 Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and...

The latest paperbacks on mid-17th century England

Various publications on the First World War

New books on British Liberalism

Renaissance and Reformation in European society

Society and religion in early modern England.

Christopher Elrington on the work of the Victoria County History

Paul Cartledge explores three publications on Ancient Greece

Edited by Raphael Samuel

Two new publications on the history of sport

Bernard Porter on espionage, past and present.

New titles on the French Revolution

The Making of Eastern Europe

Two new titles on American post-war history

Longevity, not magnanimity, was the hallmark of the victorious Franco. Paul Preston reviews the legacies of the Civil War in the Spain the General ruled for nearly...

Reflections and elaborations on the work of Christopher Hill and a book by J. T. Cliffe

by Rosemary Horrox

Two new titles

The 150 years of Royal Shows in Britain cast useful light on the changing relationship between man and the countryside and the love-hate relationship of farming and...

Sarah Jane Evans investigates some new books set in Ancient Rome.

Donald Weinstein examines the career and context of the extraordinary millenarian friar who held a puritanical sway over Renaissance Florence in the last decade of...

Edited by Roger A. Mason and a political biography by Julia Buckroyd

Edited by David Breeze and Valerie A. Maxfield

Recently published books on sex and sexuality during the Enlightenment

by Stephen Greenblatt

Tony Aldous examines the restoration of Morecambe’s winter gardens.

Rosemary Burton observes new plans for museums.

With Easter near we present some of the most intriguing history and travel books and holidays that will shortly be available. Whether the destination is Avebury or...

Edited by Christopher Harper-Bill, Christopher Holdsworth and Janet L. Nelson

An exploration of the heroic period of 17th-century Sweden through a new Royal Academy exhibition.

by John Romer

Service and Upward Mobility in Angevin England

by Lynn F. Pearson

Dick Wilson explores the enigma of the Chinese Communist leader and premier.

Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity

by Sir Penderel Moon

by Hugh Kearney

Ann Hills on a major new appeal to aid a School famous for its archaeology and exhibitions.

Two new works on the successor state to the Roman empire

Volume One, The Making Of An Historian. Volume Two, The American Experience

Aram Bakshian on the historic tensions of Islam and secular nationalism

by Alan Sked; and by Robert Pynsent

John Crossland looks at the Dock Strike that succeeded in 1889.

Works on the Sabbath in early modern England

Two new works on family history

by Barbara Tuchman

A Portrait of Bohemian Society, 1900-1955

by Robert I Rotberg

Bill Fisherman reviews a new title on the momentous strike of 1889.

Essays on the symbolic representation, design and use of past environments

A state in place or a state of mind? Soviet historian Sergei Averintsev considers the claims on universality and divine legitimacy made by the Russia of the Tsars in...

Bodily mutation and mortification in religion and folklore, by Piero Camporesi

Oxford and Cambridge to c.1500

by Christopher N.L. Brooke

In the Middle Ages mill-owning was a sound investment and led to the invention of the windmill but, as Richard Holt points out, these halcyon times were of short...

Two new titles

Two new titles

Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800

Dymphna Byrne examines startling new archaeological finds in the city of Lincoln

Edited by George Holmes

The Stadholders of the Dutch Republic

by Peter Quennell

Russia and the Allies 1917-1920, volume 2, March-November 1918

Two publications on the English State around the turn of the 18th century

The Spanish Civil War began on July 18th, 1936, with an army revolt led by Franco. Here, Michael Alpert charts the ebb and flow of battle between Republicans and...

Ann Hills recounts the development proposals on an American Civil War battlefield site

A tale of kidnapped Africans and an abortive trading voyage casts light on the uneasy relationship between conscience and commerce in New England argues Larry Gragg...

Pamela Tudor-Craig tours the cathedrals of the Kremlin

Jousts, Chivalry and Pageants in the Middle Ages

Angela Morgan describes Ukrainian archaeological and artistic treasures

New works by John Guy and Jasper Ridley

On the 50th anniversary of the end of Spanish Civil War, Michael Alpert chronicles the ebb and flow of battle between Republican and Nationalists.

Ben Shephard examines the comparisons between American Vietnam veterans and Soviets who served in Afghanistan

Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific, by Lynne Withey

In the light of genetic engineering today, Nicholas Russell explores how the thoroughbred racehorse has changed in history.

New titles focussing on the British government and civil service

Divided, outmanned and lacking international support – Paul Heywood argues the wonder was not that the Republic lost to Franco, but that it held out for so long.

In the years after the First World War, aviation became the most exciting form of transport, the spirit of a new age; but for French women, as Sian Reynolds...

Annette Bingham on digging up the past in the United Arab Emirates.