1990
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Bruce Nelson traces how the magic of FDR and his practical social programmes welded American labour to the Democratic Party, and discusses the tensions that... |
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David Bates and Peter Furtado describe Philadelphia's preparations to honour the death of Benjamin Franklin. |
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Pious nobleman or calculating humbug - what is the true characterisation of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester? Simon Adams sifts the motives for the patronage given... |
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Two new titles exploring the different facets of archaeology |
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From the Fires of the Revolution to the Great War |
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Edited by Roger Chartier |
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by Paul Langford |
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The author of this 4000-year-old hymn to one God has been portrayed as a mad idealist who turned the civilisation of the pharaohs upside down. John Ray discusses... |
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How the social history of the United States is part of the larger history of the Atlantic world. |
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Two new publications dealing with Russian history |
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New books on changing views towards animals throughout history |
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Was one of France's most formidable opponents to its expansion in North Africa secretly aided and abetted by British guns? John King looks at a tangled tale of... |
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Joseph Wright of Derby and the exhibition at the Tate. |
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Special round-up of seasonal offerings from publishers, previewing some of the interesting and intriguing history books newly on the shelves for both the general... |
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Ross Hassig questions whether the rationale behind the fighting in Mexico which Cortes encountered in 1519 has not been misunderstood. |
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Raymond Pearson on history repeating itself and other lessons from the upheavals in Eastern Europe. |
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Merle Ricklefs re-examines the impact of the Dutch in the East Indies and finds in the response of the Javanese a more complex story than that of technological... |
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Nicholas Russell on environment lessons from development history |
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Explorations of the American Wild West |
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Popular press and culture are explored in two new texts |
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Ann Hills examines a new investment in the South Pennines to save an ancient horse delivery network. |
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by F.H. Hinsley and C.LG. Simkins |
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Brother to the Sun-King: Philippe, Duke of Orleans Nancy Nichols Barker (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989, xvi + 371 pp.) |
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Ann Hills explores heritage Down Under. |
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by Donald M. Nicol |
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New imperial biographies |
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John Black discusses parallels between passive resistance of the Liberal Nonconformist tradition and poll tax civil disobedience. |
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Penelope Johnston on an early-19th century story of slavery and Canadian multicultural policy |
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The fortresses and defences of the British Isles in two new studies |
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John Morrill reviews a book on Charles II. |
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Edited by Gillian Avery and Julia Briggs |
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Richard Cavendish gives a snapshot of the work of the Cinema Theatre Association |
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Two new works, reviewed by Paul Slack, on urban history in England and France |
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Alison Olson looks at the role London coffee houses played from the Restoration onwards in providing the setting for the small groups of merchants trading with the... |
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Damien Gregory finds new clues to the missing Roman legions |
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The medium and message - Miri Rubin looks at how the changing theology and doctrine of late medieval Christianity led to the creation of a popular event with social... |
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Ian Bradley tests the genteel waters of Crieff Hydro and its past |
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Paul Cartledge on democracy - from ancient Greece to modern Eastern Europe. |
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Pamela Tudor Craig reviews two new studies |
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Two new biographies on 18th century figures. |
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Embittered Huguenot whose policies went hand in hand with repression of Catholics in William III’s Ireland or enlightened instigator of a unique French enclave which... |
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Europe’s Encounter with the Tropical World in the Nineteenth Century |
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Jeffrey Grey on how computers are profiling Australia's First World War combatants |
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Ann Hills on excavations in the Arctic and displays in the Tromso Museum. |
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Three new publications on the British Empire |
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Anita Prazmowska unwinds the tangled skeins of grievance and interest that left the newly-emergent states east of Vienna unsure of who were friends or foes in the... |
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Christopher Bayly, organiser of a major new exhibition on the British and India at the National Portrait Gallery, discusses its making and the complexities of... |
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The murder of two French envoys on the river Po in the summer of 1541 not only provoked a diplomatic whodunnit round the courts of Europe, but also throws light on... |
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'Gaul in three parts' - Charles Giry-Deloison discusses how new scholarship is affecting our view of a fifteenth-century triangle of power and diplomacy in... |
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Bruce Lenman reviews two new books on Renaissance England |
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Two new studies of late medieval England |
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'In my Father's house there are many mansions'... but whether or not they could accommodate Gandhi and Hindu nationalist aspirations was a question that exercised... |
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Keith M. Brown questions the extent to which humanism and Renaissance courtliness had weaned the Stuart aristocracy from random acts of violence and taking the law... |
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Penelope Cornfield examines the city of Bath as a model of social change and urban expansion in Hanoverian England. |
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J.M. Roberts reviews |
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In the first of two articles looking at civil servants in Tudor and Stuart England, Roger Ashley uncovers the story of William Painter and the creative accounting... |
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by Victor Neuberg |
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Lesser breeds without the law? In a revealing new study of the Hellenistic world in the three centuries after Alexander carved out an empire in the East, Peter Green... |
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Roy Porter argues that historians must re-examine their purpose, between specialised study and general discovery. |
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by Colleen McDannell and Bernhard Lang |
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Two new titles covering art and cartoons and the Second World War |
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by Erica Veevers |
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David Kirby discusses how Sweden's sudden rise to prominence in 17th-century Europe provoked much soul-searching both within and without the country on its nature... |
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The Life of Stephen Gardiner |
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A recent title on the Great War diaries of a Gordon Highlander |
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Review by John Davis |
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by Norman Macdougall |
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Friends of truth or intellectual subversives undermining the authority of both Rome and Versailles? Alexander Sedgwick follows the story of how a theological argument... |
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Three new titles examining Jerusalem and the Holy Land throughout the ages. |
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Angela Morgan discusses sugared heritage and a new exhibition |
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A chip off the old block? Susan Ware looks over the careers of the Hollywood actress and her radical mother and finds reflections of the changing roles and attitudes... |
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England's royal black sheep may well turn out to be the instigator of the ancient ceremony linking Church and Crown. Arnold Kellett explains how this came about.... |
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Sentiment, profit and commercial laissez-faire bound the merchants of England's busiest port ever closer to the rebel confederacy across the Atlantic... |
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Richard Rex reviews a book on the Reformation in London. |
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'The greatest Instances of publick Spirit the Age has produced', but confessional strife between Anglicans and Nonconformists, as well as the bitter battles of... |
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by A. Lloyd Moote |
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Dominic Smith reviews a book by Sebastian de Grazia. |
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Diarmaid MacCulloch reviews a book by David Loades. |
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From joyous spring rite to politicised holiday – Chris Wrigley traces the annexation of May Day through the efforts of the increasingly active labour movement in... |
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Hugh David on Greek ideas revisited |
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Two current publications on ancient Egypt |
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Oiled excavations at Tintagel |
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Annette Bingham on the historic nature of Philippines food |
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In its desperate battle to fight off the advancing Germans, the Soviet Union called on its women to play as active and probably more wide-ranging a role as its men... |
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Did a battle fought on the borders of Mongolia in September 1939 between Russia and Japan on behalf of their client states decisively affect the outcome of the... |
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Two new books on the turbulence of the 17th century |
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When money for Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists began to dry up in the late 1930s, he turned to novel schemes for fund-raising. James and Patience Barnes... |
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Around the year 1000, a teenage emperor in the centre of Europe embarked on a rapprochement with his eastern neighbours employing the language and kudos... |
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New historical titles focussing on Germany in the Weimar years and Third Reich era |
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Four publications exploring the Russian Civil war period |
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New works this season on Irish history |
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The latest titles exploring the Ancien Regime |
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Trevor Joscelyne discusses the array of new books on the Renaissance |
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William Fishman assesses new works on the labour movement |
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Damien Gregory explores jerry-building at Hampton Court |
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The US, 1900-1920 |
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Michael Diamond discusses what popular songs and singers had to say about Britain's politicians in the 1880s and 1890s. |
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R.C. Richardson reviews. |
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Stephen Jones on Victorian things, trends and fashions. |
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The problems surrounding the discovery of an ancient reptile fossil and its wider implications for cultural heritage. |
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Robin Place advocates a key role for prehistory in capturing interest for things historical in school. |
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Nigel Aston reviews. |
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Sarah Jane Evans looks at eating and the nostalgia industry |
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Andrew Fettegree looks at how the life and death of a radical religious maverick points up the tensions between individualism and order in Reformation Europe. |
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The British Medical Journal is 150 years old this autumn and has witnessed in its time a kaleidoscope of changing attitudes towards medicines, their ethics and... |
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Irrational chauvinists or fearful protectionists? Gordon Daniels looks at the new research and arguments reshaping our view of Japan's rulers before and after... |
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New publications on the British cinema industry from the early 20th century |
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Evan Mawdsley discusses how scholarship both inside and outside the Soviet Union, spurred on by the political somersaults in the East, is revising our view of... |
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Paul Moorcraft looks at the struggle to maintain white supremacy in what is now Zimbabwe, a hundred years after Cecil Rhodes' pioneers carved out a British colony... |
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Susan Collinson dissects the life and ideas of the brilliant nineteenth-century anatomist who developed a biological theory of race, but whose career was clouded by... |
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Richard Welch charts the extraordinary explosion in American music and argues for its impact on society as a whole. |
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End or beginning? Catherine Hills discusses how recent archaeology is filling in the gaps in our knowledge of 5th-and 6th-century Britain, fuelling the debate... |
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Three new books on Russia on the verge of revolutionary change |
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Glasgow's role in the Enlightenment is often overshadowed by Edinburgh, but Roy Campbell shows that the impetus came from the West with the pioneering work done in... |
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Three new books on the 1939-45 conflict, by Martin Gilbert, John Keegan & Correlli Barnett |
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Three new works exploring Europe from 1600-1800 |
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L.A. Clarkson reviews three new books on society from the 16th-18th centuries |
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A new biography of the naval hero |
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New titles on women and slavery. |
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Peter Ling and Brian Stoner look at the history of Yellowstone Park and its fiery struggle between Man and Nature. |
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In the light of the revised interest in the Soviet cinema Richard Taylor questions whether our traditional view of its output after 1917 as mere uplift (dreary or... |
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Hearts of oak - but those of the Don, not John Bull. John Harbron argues for a revaluation of the expertise, both of men and materiel, which made Spain a... |
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A selection of the new armchair and active opportunities for those keen on combining history and travel. |
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'You played your hand well. Well done.' High praise indeed from Stalin to an uneasy ally, as John Young describes in this account of the one and only meeting of '... |
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Nicholas Tucker peeps into royal Victorian childhood on the Isle of Wight. |
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Norman Bainbridge on springtime for Tupholme Abbey |
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Richard Cavendish visits an historic mill in Derbyshire central to the Industrial Revolution. |
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Paul Cartledge reconstructs the prison and execution-site of Socrates |
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Juan Cole looks at the pacifist, prophetic and millenarian 'world religion' whose leader emerged from the social and political unrest of 19th-century Iran and... |
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the MaldivesReview of a new historical encyclopedia on Asian countries |
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Edited by Robert Fossier |
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A couple of forthcoming titles on characters and literacy in the Middle Ages |
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Two new publications on the Napoleonic War era |
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A general account and a more in-depth study of the Stuart reign |
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Catherine Hills reviews a work by A.S. Esmonde. |
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Hilary Turner unrolls the life and achievements of a fifteenth-century Florentine humanist whose self-taught efforts at acquiring Greek and wandering the Aegean... |
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A.L Beier, David Cannadine, and James M. Rosenheim eds. |
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Enforcing Racial Policy, 1933-1945 |
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Ian Bradley reviews Volumes 11 and 12 |
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Bernard Crick looks at the cost of historical mediations. |
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Two new books on British society from 1880 to the mid-20th century |
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Keith Robbins examines the men, myths and achievements that allowed Glasgow to bask in the glow of being the Second City of Empire. |
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Review of publications dealing with incidents during the Nazi regime. |
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P.J.P. Goldberg reviews a book by John Boswell |
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Ann Hills on attempts to recreate authentic historic houses and grounds |
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Edited by R.E. Foster |
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Two publications examining Tudor and Stuart politics and Parliament |
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Publications exploring various aspects of the English Revolution |
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During the early days of UK involvement in World War II, official British films deliberately created a particular view of the air war, perhaps distorting our... |
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by Harold Perkin |
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Lawrence James describes how costs and logistics made air power a way of enforcing British policy in the Middle East between the wars. |
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New Hampshire meat-packer to national symbol - Alton Ketchum recounts the rise and rise of Uncle Sam Wilson. |
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Smoke gets in your eyes – but it also made the fortunes of the Clydeside merchants who shipped in the golden leaf from the New World and transformed Glasgow into an... |
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John Erickson reviews new titles on the Soviet dictator |
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In the first two decades of the 20th century escapist fantasy was not the sole diet offered to American audiences by the emerging film industry. Steven Ross relates... |
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New titles exploring German history, pre- and post-war |
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Two new books on the impact of the Great War |
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Richard Cavendish on a Great War remembrance group |
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Edited by J.R. McMichael and Barbara Taft |
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The early modern Reformation in Europe |
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Roy Porter reviews a social history edited by Stephen Ozment. |
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Marika Sherwood on race and exploitation at sea. |
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John Crossland on the ethical dilemmas facing those who wish to dig out Battle of Britain planes and pilots. |
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Ann Hills on Trinity House and new uses for lighthouses. |
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Australians can now pinpoint the actual birthplace of their nation in the centre of modern Sydney. |
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Christopher Haigh reviews. |
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Two new books on the British Prime Minister at the start of the Second World War |
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Scott Goodfellow on the row over archaeology by tender. |
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Richard Vinen describes how personal respect and wish-fulfilment, aided by tireless hagiography, moulded a head of state for a defeated France whose prospectus was... |
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Two new books on the Victorian era. |
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John Springhall on violence in the 19th-century media |
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Late seventeenth-century persecutor of Covenanters or Jacobite hero? |
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Aram Bakshian delves into the annexe of Presidents in Washington DC |
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Christopher Chippindale talks about hands-on archaeology |
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Mary Shortt recounts how the Canadian theatre fostered and reflected sentiment for the Mother Country between 1850 and 1940. |
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Popular Politics in the Age of Walpole and Pitt |
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Two books on one of the founders of the Green movement. |
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Edited by Donald B. Cole and John J. McDonough |
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by Marianne Elliott |
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by Ben Witherington Ill; & by Giovanni Filoramo |
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Two new titles on women and gender in 18th century Britain. |
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Denis MacShane looks at the rise and fall of international solidarity in the trade union movement. |
