Speer: Hitler’s Architect
The ‘Nazi who said sorry’ was a master of constructing his own narrative.
Reviews
A History of Gypsies, Roma and Travellers
A subtly nuanced picture of European Roma.
The Story of Women in the 1950s
Sandwiched between the sacrifices of the 1940s and the excesses of the ‘swinging sixties’, were the fifties have a dull decade?
Magna Carta Matters
Nigel Saul marks the 800th anniversary of the sealing of Magna Carta with a comprehensive overview of the landmark books that dominate the field.
Religion and the Decline of Magic
The importance to historians and anthropologists of Keith Thomas’s Religion and the Decline of Magic, ten years after its first publication.
Ends of British Imperialism
A.J. Stockwell reviews a new collection of writings by Wm. Roger Louis.
The Intellectual Life of the British Working Class
A celebratory history which challenges cultural stereotypes and fashionable academic assumptions.