1992

John Miller asks historians why, and for whom, they write.

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.

Lisa Jardine reviews

John MacKenzie on the role and future of Commonwealth House

Simon Crine reviews

Immigrants in Britain

Alan Ryan discusses what happens when history comes to an end

Margaret Ballard considers the research of the Brewery History Society

Martin Evans looks at the aftermath of the struggle for Algerian independence from France.

Sarah Pepper investigates a medical pioneer whose name survives today on a bread wrapper, but whose sweeping system of wholefoods and natural prescriptions...

John Hartsock details the rise and fall of noble tolerance of religious freedom in 17th-century Maryland.

Two recent publications on British castles

Three new books on Anti-Semitism throughout history

Leslie Fox and friends find history is sweet in the Belize jungle.

John Erickson reviews three new books on 20th-century Russian history

P.J. Marshall reviews these two new books

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.

by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

by John Carver Edwards

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...

Two volumes

Peter Hennessy reviews

David Mayall chronicles the uneasy relations between gypsies and the British establishment.

Two new books on British history from 1700 to the 19th century

Two new works on Byzantium

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-...

Ann Hills on the management schemes of the Countryside Commission

Ian Bradley looks at what qualified as family favourites in the last decade of the nineteenth century.

Ronald Quinault wonders what Churchill would have made of Maastricht in the light of his post-war activities.

Patrick Curry reviews two new books on astrology and magic in the Middle Ages

Kenneth Asch on Prague's memento to the great composer

Two new books, by Simon Schama and Peter Linebaugh.

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...

Robert Garland draws on both mythology and accounts of everyday life to probe attitudes to physical misfortune in the classical era.

by Peter Marshall

M.R.D. Foot offers a fresh view on the 1942 Allied raid on Nazi-occupied France and its lessons for D-Day.

Roderick Phillips considers if marriages were ever made in heaven.

Three new works on medical history

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...

John Biffen reflects on the by-election campaign that elected one of his predecessors from Shropshire to the House of Commons.

Two new books reviewed by Michael Baumber

Edited by John Blair and Nigel Ramsay

Nigel Saul looks at the two-way traffic between medieval Britain and the Continent

Two new publications about film and the cinema from the earliest days of the technology

A new exhibition at the Ashmolean which questions the experience of museum visiting.

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...

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...

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...

A new museum and tours dedicated to the battles of the Somme

Leonore Davidoff on how women's history has been interwoven with debates on society and identity and its prospects for durability.

Ann Hills on digging up in Switzerland

Ian Fitzgerald on the precarious state of some listed buildings.

Michel Petheram assesses the importance and reliability of a courtier whose 'memoires' offer graphic vignettes of the last days of Louis XIV.

Edited by Paul Kennedy

Two new books on society and belief in early modern England

Alistair Thompson uncovers a hidden controversy about myth making and Gallipoli

Ann Hills uncovers a shrine to Victorian photography under threat.

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...

Roy Strong reviews two new books on kingship

Mia Rodriguez-Salgado goes in search of an idea that has puzzled people from Charlemagne to Adenauer.

Ann Hills discusses controversial spending plans for Irish heritage

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...

by L.P. Harvey

Richard Cavendish on an association dedicated to the MP, publisher, soldier, Christian and governor-general of Canada

John Coutts delves into the undergrowth of Victorian life and death in North London.

John Powell on the colourful life of a Whig minister

Robert Thorne discusses 19th-century London on show in Germany

Tony Aldous discusses the missing millions in the art world

A ruler in transition - Howell Lloyd looks at the icons of power that masked the face of French kingship around 1500.

Two new publications on the French monarch

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...

Hugh David sifts ‘real history’ from anniversary-itis.

Hugh David considers history that has been under wraps - voluntarily or otherwise

Two new works on two influential scientists

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto reviews two new books on Spain

Sara Risaluddin reviews three new books on Islam

by William Cronon

Over the past two years a stream of titles relating to European encounter with the New World have been running of the presses in anticipation of Columbus’...

Three new works on the key Russian figures of the 20th century.

Nicholas Russell finds 17th-century conspicuous consumption in the Garden of England.

Dorothy Thompson looks at the impact of revisionism and triumphalism on tales of solidarity and struggle from the society of the Industrial Revolution.

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.

Two new works about Americans - at home and abroad - and the Second World War

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...

Roland Oliver assesses

David Cordingly describes the seafaring daredevil who pirated the Caribbean 200 years after Columbus' arrival, and tells of a new exhibition at the National...

by Jennifer Marx

A new publication on 17th-century Holland

A music hall reprise by Michael Leech

A new book by Greg Walker on the court of Henry VIII

Mark Brayshay draws on his recent archival research to present this upbeat view of how news travelled in Early Modern Europe.

Michael Leech employs a house detective to uncover the history of his own property.

A new work by Paul Langford

A new book by Stefan Collini on thought in Britain from 1850 to 1930

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...

Richard Woodall issues an alert about documents in peril.

A new book on 18th-century England

Richard Cavendish takes the tartan with the Scottish History Society

Norman Hammond reviews

Ann Hills discovers a feast of Welsh flowers amid the history of a working-class town

John Hemming reviews three publications on the New World

An international exhibition run by the Swedish Royal Armoury on Tournaments and the Dream of Chivalry.

Steve Humphries unlocks the taboo histories of the disabled and handicapped.

Peter Ling reviews a new publication on women and the motor car

John Iliffe explores a selection of new works on Africa

by J.S. Curl

Two new books on rituals associated with death

Modern British social and cultural history

Brian Dooley assesses the incident which brought the world perilously close to nuclear war.

Three new books exploring the Vietnam War

When did a gentleman become a gentleman? Penny Corfield looks at the curious odyssey of the species from Tudor times onwards.

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.

by Robert Sallares

Nick Butler reviews

Kevin Sharpe reviews two valuable texts on Tudor espionage

Two new works combining essays on America

Hugh Brogan reviews

Nicholas Tucker reviews these two new books

Two new histories of the British Press

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.

Douglas Johnson compares and contrasts the downfalls of Neville Chamberlain and Margaret Thatcher.

 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...

Richard Cavendish looks at the wide-ranging interests of The Georgian Group

Two new publications examining the history of Siberia

Three new books on Britain in the World Wars

A range of new works examining history north of the border

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....

Richard Cavendish carves out some monumental history in Derbyshire

Christopher Chippindale reviews two new works on ancient British beliefs

Two new works on Religion in England from the Restoration

Life in the 17th century

Two new works on the French Cardinal and chief minister to Louis XIII

by Correlli Barnett

Three new publications on the Renaissance

Paul Preston reviews two new titles on the Spanish War from Burnett Bolloten and Helen Graham.

New books on the early days in American history

Eric Christiansen reviews two very different books on medieval history

by Jack Simmons

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...

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.

Victoria Schofield surveys the land Columbus did not visit and finds societies on the move.

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...

Roger Mason looks at two books about the reign and legacy of Charles I.

Details of a new exhibition on Pompeii in London

Tony Aldous discusses the work of the English Historic Towns Forum

Display at the National Museum of American History in memory of veterans of the Vietnam War

Keith Nurse explores the excavations of recently-discovered Roman remains

Robin Bruce Lockhart looks at the Anglophile his father knew and discusses new theories on how he died and why.