1992
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Caught between the bear and the eagle – Dennis Deletant examines how one Balkan nation with substantial minorities problems, struggled in vain to avoid being swept... |
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John Miller asks historians why, and for whom, they write. |
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John Edwards finds the roots of Spanish actions in America in the crusade mentality that won back the Iberian peninsula for Christendom in the Middle Ages. |
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Lisa Jardine reviews |
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John MacKenzie on the role and future of Commonwealth House |
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Why did the whole of Marshal Petain's fleet go to the bottom of Toulon harbour in November 1942? Anthony Clayton uncovers a tale of amour propre in this... |
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Simon Crine reviews |
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Immigrants in Britain |
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Alan Ryan discusses what happens when history comes to an end |
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Margaret Ballard considers the research of the Brewery History Society |
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Martin Evans looks at the aftermath of the struggle for Algerian independence from France. |
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Sarah Pepper investigates a medical pioneer whose name survives today on a bread wrapper, but whose sweeping system of wholefoods and natural prescriptions... |
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John Hartsock details the rise and fall of noble tolerance of religious freedom in 17th-century Maryland. |
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Two recent publications on British castles. |
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Three new books on Anti-Semitism throughout history |
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Leslie Fox and friends find history is sweet in the Belize jungle. |
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John Erickson reviews three new books on 20th-century Russian history |
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P.J. Marshall reviews these two new books |
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Ball-and-chain nationhood: Brian Fletcher chronicles the ambiguities Australians have felt over the years towards the nation's 'Founding Fathers'. |
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Our round-up of the offerings from publishers in Autumn 1992 previewing interesting and intriguing history books for both the general reader and the specialist. |
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by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto |
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Michael Burleigh on Volkswagen's Nazi past |
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by John Carver Edwards |
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Louis XII came to the throne in 1498 and ruled France for sixteen years. According to Howell Lloyd, he was a 'ruler in transition': images of Louis XII elevated... |
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Two volumes |
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Peter Hennessy reviews |
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David Mayall chronicles the uneasy relations between gypsies and the British establishment. |
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Two new books on British history from 1700 to the 19th century |
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Two new works on Byzantium |
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Louis Kleber tells the story of how a small group of Spanish friars dotted the west coast of America with outposts of their impact on the native populations they co-... |
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Ann Hills on the management schemes of the Countryside Commission |
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Ian Bradley looks at what qualified as family favourites in the last decade of the nineteenth century. |
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Ronald Quinault wonders what Churchill would have made of Maastricht in the light of his post-war activities. |
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Merlin Waterson looks at how the newly-independent Estonia is recovering its heritage. |
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Patrick Curry reviews two new books on astrology and magic in the Middle Ages |
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Kenneth Asch on Prague's memento to the great composer |
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Two new books, by Simon Schama and Peter Linebaugh. |
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Anthony Kirk-Greene looks at the remarkably rapid 'end of empire' of Britain in Africa, and argues that perspective and objectivity can now yield a useful... |
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How did feudal warlords acquire good breeding and the refinements of culture? David Crouch looks beyond the images of Hollywood and Sir Walter Scott in a revealing... |
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Robert Garland draws on both mythology and accounts of everyday life to probe attitudes to physical misfortune in the classical era. |
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by Peter Marshall |
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M.R.D. Foot offers a fresh view on the 1942 Allied raid on Nazi-occupied France and its lessons for D-Day. |
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Roderick Phillips considers if marriages were ever made in heaven. |
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Three new works on medical history |
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Ingrid Scobie tells the story of the infamous 1950 campaign that set Richard Nixon on his path to the White House, and ended the political career of his remarkable... |
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John Biffen reflects on the by-election campaign that elected one of his predecessors from Shropshire to the House of Commons. |
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Two new books reviewed by Michael Baumber |
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Edited by John Blair and Nigel Ramsay |
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Nigel Saul looks at the two-way traffic between medieval Britain and the Continent |
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Two new publications about film and the cinema from the earliest days of the technology |
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A new exhibition at the Ashmolean which questions the experience of museum visiting. |
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Noble savages and savage nobles – Anthony Pagden looks at how the icons of the pre-Columbian world were polished up to mirror criollo aspirations from the 16th... |
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What was it like for the women and children on the wagon trains on the epic treks across mid-19th-century America? Elliott West draws on diaries and letters in this... |
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Hark the herald angels sing ... but they have also been a great deal more throughout history than just the key participants in the Christmas story. Enid Gauldie takes... |
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A new museum and tours dedicated to the battles of the Somme |
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Kenneth Asch on Berlin's opera house, the Deutsche Staatsoper. |
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Leonore Davidoff on how women's history has been interwoven with debates on society and identity and its prospects for durability. |
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Ann Hills on digging up in Switzerland |
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Ian Fitzgerald on the precarious state of some listed buildings. |
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Michel Petheram assesses the importance and reliability of a courtier whose 'memoires' offer graphic vignettes of the last days of Louis XIV. |
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Edited by Paul Kennedy |
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Two new books on society and belief in early modern England |
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Alistair Thompson uncovers a hidden controversy about myth making and Gallipoli |
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Hitler's march into the demilitarised Rhineland heralded Churchill's 'gathering storm' – but could the Fuhrer's bluff have been called and the Second World War... |
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Ann Hills uncovers a shrine to Victorian photography under threat. |
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What would have happened if the native Americans had been left to their own devices? Brian Fagan probes the rise and fall of Aztec and Mayan society and proffers... |
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Roy Strong reviews two new books on kingship |
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Mia Rodriguez-Salgado goes in search of an idea that has puzzled people from Charlemagne to Adenauer. |
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Ann Hills discusses controversial spending plans for Irish heritage |
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Andrew Boyd on past efforts to bring Ireland's warring factions to the peace table. |
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Bryan Palmer looks at the dialogue between Marxism, class struggle and working-class identity in the changing fortunes of working-class history in North America... |
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Angus Mackay reviews L.P. Harvey's new book on Islam in Spain. |
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Ann Hills evaluates the recently-opened island museum. |
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Richard Cavendish on an association dedicated to the MP, publisher, soldier, Christian and governor-general of Canada |
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John Coutts delves into the undergrowth of Victorian life and death in North London. |
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John Powell on the colourful life of a Whig minister |
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Robert Thorne discusses 19th-century London on show in Germany |
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Tony Aldous discusses the missing millions in the art world |
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A ruler in transition - Howell Lloyd looks at the icons of power that masked the face of French kingship around 1500. |
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Two new publications on the French monarch |
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Money makes the world go round - in Lyndon Johnson's case the Yankee dollar was seen as a means of buttressing Britain's new mid-60s Labour government as an ally... |
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Dipesh Chakrabarty looks at the dialogue between nationalism and the inspiration of Marx in the formation of the world's largest democracy. |
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Hugh David sifts ‘real history’ from anniversary-itis. |
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Hugh David considers history that has been under wraps - voluntarily or otherwise |
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Two new works on a pair of influential scientists |
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Felipe Fernandez-Armesto reviews two new books on Spain. |
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Sara Risaluddin reviews three new books on Islam |
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Nicholas James audits the societies and civilisations decimated by the arrival of Europeans - and tells how, against the odds, elements from them have survived.... |
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by William Cronon |
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Three new works on the key Russian figures of the 20th century. |
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Nicholas Russell finds 17th-century conspicuous consumption in the Garden of England. |
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Dorothy Thompson looks at the impact of revisionism and triumphalism on tales of solidarity and struggle from the society of the Industrial Revolution. |
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From isolation to Great Power status - Richard Perren explains how a mania for Westernisation primed the pump of Japan's transformation at the turn of the century... |
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The debate over the role of women in the Anglican church continues to rage in the UK. A historical look at the role of women in Christianity is presented. |
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Two new works about Americans - at home and abroad - and the Second World War |
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David Eastwood considers how the myth of the great statesman, who put country and Corn Law Reform before partisan advantage, is standing up in the light of modern... |
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Roland Oliver assesses |
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'Tis to be feared this threatening storm will not be allayed without some showers... of blood' – Chris Durston chronicles the rumours and fears of an England on... |
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David Cordingly describes the seafaring daredevil who pirated the Caribbean 200 years after Columbus' arrival, and tells of a new exhibition at the National... |
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by Jennifer Marx |
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A new publication on 17th-century Holland |
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A music hall reprise by Michael Leech |
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A new book by Greg Walker on the court of Henry VIII |
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Mark Brayshay draws on his recent archival research to present this upbeat view of how news travelled in Early Modern Europe. |
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Michael Leech employs a house detective to uncover the history of his own property. |
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Colin Richmond analyses the part played by the written (and spoken) word in shoring up popular allegiances to the rival dynasties |
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A new work by Paul Langford |
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A new book by Stefan Collini on thought in Britain from 1850 to 1930 |
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Queen Victoria inherited the 'Buckingham House' from her uncle, William IV, in 1837. She was eighteen years old. Patricia Wright looks at the chequered origins and... |
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Richard Woodall issues an alert about documents in peril. |
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A new book on 18th-century England |
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Richard Cavendish takes the tartan with the Scottish History Society |
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Norman Hammond reviews |
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Peter Wickham surveys a little-known example of Modern Movement Architecture. |
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Ann Hills discovers a feast of Welsh flowers amid the history of a working-class town |
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Paul K. Martin with an eyewitness account of Barcelona's rival Olympics of 1936. |
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Did the system spawn a monster - or a monster the system? Norman Pereira re-evaluates the road to totalitarianism in the Soviet Union after the Revolution, and... |
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John Hemming reviews three publications on the New World |
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Michael Leech on a Tudor revival in the East End |
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An international exhibition run by the Swedish Royal Armoury on Tournaments and the Dream of Chivalry. |
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Steve Humphries unlocks the taboo histories of the disabled and handicapped. |
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Peter Ling reviews a new publication on women and the motor car |
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Highbrow or lowbrow? James Gilbert looks at the competing visions of American civilisation on offer at Chicago's fin de siécle Exposition of 1893. |
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John Iliffe explores a selection of new works on Africa |
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by J.S. Curl |
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Two new books on rituals associated with death |
The Centre Of Things; The British Press And Broadcasting Since 1945; & Culture In Britain Since 1945
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Brian Dooley assesses the incident which brought the world perilously close to nuclear war. |
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Peter Riddick reviews three new books exploring the Vietnam War. |
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When did a gentleman become a gentleman? Penny Corfield looks at the curious odyssey of the species from Tudor times onwards. |
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Operation 'Rutter' was launched on August 19th, 1942. Here, M.R.D. Foot reassesses views of the Allied attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe. |
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by Robert Sallares |
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Nick Butler reviews |
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Kevin Sharpe reviews two valuable texts on Tudor espionage |
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Two new works combining essays on America |
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Hugh Brogan reviews |
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Nicholas Tucker reviews these two new books |
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Two new histories of the British Press |
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Peter Burke looks at how images and the image-makers made the Sun King appear as the larger-than-life 'top ruler' of 17th-century Europe. |
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Douglas Johnson compares and contrasts the downfalls of Neville Chamberlain and Margaret Thatcher. |
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Dedicated followers of fashion – or senders of coded messages via the doublet, codpiece and hose? Lois Banner mounts an intriguing investigation of how male clothing... |
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Richard Cavendish looks at the wide-ranging interests of The Georgian Group |
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Two new publications examining the history of Siberia |
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Three new books on Britain in the World Wars |
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A range of new works examining history north of the border |
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Enlightened despots or imperial new clothes? Nicholas Henshall takes a fresh look at the realities of power in the bureaucracies and rulers of ancien regime Europe.... |
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Richard Cavendish carves out some monumental history in Derbyshire |
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Christopher Chippindale reviews two new works on ancient British beliefs |
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Two new works on Religion in England from the Restoration |
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Life in the 17th century |
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A place to inspire visions of secret prisoners, torture and the axe - but the reality was less blood-soaked and more varied. Geoffrey Parnell chronicles the... |
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Two new works on the French Cardinal and chief minister to Louis XIII |
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John Terraine reviews a book on the Royal Navy in WWII. |
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Three new publications on the Renaissance |
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Paul Preston reviews two new titles on the Spanish War from Burnett Bolloten and Helen Graham. |
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New books on the early days in American history |
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Eric Christiansen reviews two very different books on medieval history |
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Robert Thorne reviews a new book on Victorian railways. |
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When the Japanese invaded Manchuria in 1931, resistance came not from the Chinese government, but from plucky local groups who waged guerrilla war, Anthony Coogan... |
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Richard Overy examines how technological advances in the air and on the road gave society a jump-start at the end of the nineteenth century. |
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Victoria Schofield surveys the land Columbus did not visit and finds societies on the move. |
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An entente cordiale transformed into a lasting bond after the war to end all wars - but it was not to be. Antony Lentin looks at who duped whom in the manoeuvrings... |
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Trinity College in... |
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Roger Mason looks at two books about the reign and legacy of Charles I. |
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Details of a new exhibition on Pompeii in London |
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Tony Aldous discusses the work of the English Historic Towns Forum |
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Display at the National Museum of American History in memory of veterans of the Vietnam War |
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Keith Nurse explores the excavations of recently-discovered Roman remains |
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Two books deal with the impact of European colonisation on indigenous peoples and the way their culture was undermined or changed. |
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Robin Bruce Lockhart looks at the Anglophile his father knew and discusses new theories on how he died and why. |
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The Brontes and the town of Haworth in Yorkshire, where they lived, are knitted inseparably in the popular imagination but, as Michael Baumber explains, it was not... |
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Anne Laurence considers how the conflict between King and Parliament altered the occupations and preoccupations of England's women. |
