Bruce Lenman

The Magazine at Colonial Williamsburg

Bruce Lenman looks at the colonial resonances of the Magazine Building, Williamsburg.

Published July 31 1994

From Divine Cosmos To Sovereign State; & The Late King's Goods

Bruce Lenman reviews two new books on Renaissance England

Published January 1 1991

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives

Review of a new historical encyclopedia on Asian countries

Published May 31 1990

Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire; and other works

New titles on the history of India

Published May 31 1989

The East India Company and the Emperor Aurangzeb

'Trade follows the flag' is a truism of imperial expansion but in the 1680s it was the other way round, as East India Company entrepreneurs made an ambitious and abortive attempt to challenge the might of the Moghul empire.

Published February 1 1987

The Scottish Reformation

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

Published March 31 1983

France and the Jacobite Rising of 1745

F.J. McLynn

Published March 1 1982

Enemies of God - the Witch-hunt in Scotland

Christina Larner

Published February 1 1982

The Jacobite Diaspora 1688-1746: From Despair to Integration

The refugee supporters of the House of Stuart, explains Bruce Lehman, made new lives for themselves as Europeans, achieving success as bankers, merchants, soldiers, churchmen and diplomats.

Published April 30 1980

Crime and Control in Scotland 1500-1800

Scotland was a much more disciplined society in the years before the Industrial Revolution than has usually been supported, as Lenman and Parker, the authors of the first of these two articles on 'Crime in Britain 1500-1800' show.

Published January 1 1980