1990

From the Fires of the Revolution to the Great War

Edited by Roger Chartier

by Paul Langford

How the social history of the United States is part of the larger history of the Atlantic world.

Two new publications dealing with Russian history

New books on changing views towards animals throughout history

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...

Joseph Wright of Derby and the exhibition at the Tate.

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...

Raymond Pearson on history repeating itself and other lessons from the upheavals in Eastern Europe.

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...

Nicholas Russell on environment lessons from development history

Explorations of the American Wild West

Popular press and culture are explored in two new texts

Ann Hills examines a new investment in the South Pennines to save an ancient horse delivery network.

by F.H. Hinsley and C.LG. Simkins

Brother to the Sun-King: Philippe, Duke of Orleans Nancy Nichols Barker (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989, xvi + 371 pp.)

Ann Hills explores heritage Down Under.

by Donald M. Nicol

New imperial biographies

John Black discusses parallels between passive resistance of the Liberal Nonconformist tradition and poll tax civil disobedience.

Penelope Johnston on an early-19th century story of slavery and Canadian multicultural policy

The fortresses and defences of the British Isles in two new studies

John Morrill reviews

Edited by Gillian Avery and Julia Briggs

Richard Cavendish gives a snapshot of the work of the Cinema Theatre Association

Two new works, reviewed by Paul Slack, on urban history in England and France

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...

Damien Gregory finds new clues to the missing Roman legions

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...

Ian Bradley tests the genteel waters of Crieff Hydro and its past

Paul Cartledge on democracy - from ancient Greece to modern Eastern Europe.

Pamela Tudor Craig reviews two new studies

Two new biographies on 18th century figures.

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...

Europe’s Encounter with the Tropical World in the Nineteenth Century

Ann Hills on excavations in the Arctic and displays in the Tromso Museum.

Three new publications on the British Empire

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...

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...

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...

Bruce Lenman reviews two new books on Renaissance England

Two new studies of late medieval England

J.M. Roberts reviews

by Victor Neuberg

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...

Roy Porter argues that historians must re-examine their purpose, between specialised study and general discovery.

by Colleen McDannell and Bernhard Lang

Two new titles covering art and cartoons and the Second World War

by Erica Veevers

The Life of Stephen Gardiner

A recent title on the Great War diaries of a Gordon Highlander

by Denis Mack Smith

by Norman Macdougall

Friends of truth or intellectual subversives undermining the authority of both Rome and Versailles? Alexander Sedgwick follows the story of how a theological argument...

Three new titles examining Jerusalem and the Holy Land throughout the ages

Angela Morgan discusses sugared heritage and a new exhibition

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...

by Susan Brigden

A republished vintage article from A.J.P. Taylor in July 1951 on one of those surprising outsiders with a touch of mischief whom Taylor always had a soft historical...

by A. Lloyd Moote

by Sebastian de Grazia

by David Loades

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...

Hugh David on Greek ideas revisited

Two current publications on ancient Egypt

Oiled excavations at Tintagel

Annette Bingham on the historic nature of Philippines food

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...

 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...

Two new books on the turbulence of the 17th century

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...

New historical titles focussing on Germany in the Weimar years and Third Reich era

Four publications exploring the Russian Civil war period

New works this season on Irish history

The latest titles exploring the Ancien Regime

Trevor Joscelyne discusses the array of new books on the Renaissance

William Fishman assesses new works on the labour movement

Damien Gregory explores jerry-building at Hampton Court

The US, 1900-1920

Michael Diamond discusses what popular songs and singers had to say about Britain's politicians in the 1880s and 1890s.

by Kevin Sharpe

Stephen Jones on Victorian things, trends and fashions.

The problems surrounding the discovery of an ancient reptile fossil and its wider implications for cultural heritage.

Robin Place advocates a key role for prehistory in capturing interest for things historical in school.

by P.V. Bamford

Sarah Jane Evans looks at eating and the nostalgia industry

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.

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...

New publications on the British cinema industry from the early 20th century

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...

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...

Richard Welch charts the extraordinary explosion in American music and argues for its impact on society as a whole.

Three new books on Russia on the verge of revolutionary change

Three new books on the 1939-45 conflict, by Martin Gilbert, John Keegan & Correlli Barnett

Three new works exploring Europe from 1600-1800

L.A. Clarkson reviews three new books on society from the 16th-18th centuries

A new biography of the naval hero

New titles on women and slavery

Peter Ling and Brian Stoner look at the history of Yellowstone Park and its fiery struggle between Man and Nature.

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...

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...

A selection of the new armchair and active opportunities for those keen on combining history and travel.

Nicholas Tucker peeps into royal Victorian childhood on the Isle of Wight.

Norman Bainbridge on springtime for Tupholme Abbey

Richard Cavendish visits an historic mill in Derbyshire central to the Industrial Revolution.

Paul Cartledge reconstructs the prison and execution-site of Socrates

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...

Review of a new historical encyclopedia on Asian countries

Edited by Robert Fossier

A couple of forthcoming titles on characters and literacy in the Middle Ages

Two new publications on the Napoleonic War era

A general account and a more in-depth study of the Stuart reign

Catherine Hills reviews a work by A.S. Esmonde

Hilary Turner unrolls the life and achievements of a fifteenth-century Florentine humanist whose self-taught efforts at acquiring Greek and wandering the Aegean...

A.L Beier, David Cannadine, and James M. Rosenheim eds.

Enforcing Racial Policy, 1933-1945

Ian Bradley reviews Volumes 11 and 12

Bernard Crick looks at the cost of historical mediations.

Two new books on British society from 1880 to the mid-20th century

Keith Robbins examines the men, myths and achievements that allowed Glasgow to bask in the glow of being the Second City of Empire.

Publications dealing with incidents during the Nazi regime

by John Boswell

Ann Hills on attempts to recreate authentic historic houses and grounds

Edited by R.E. Foster

Two publications examining Tudor and Stuart politics and Parliament

Publications exploring various aspects of the English Revolution

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...

by Harold Perkin

Lawrence James describes how costs and logistics made air power a way of enforcing British policy in the Middle East between the wars.

New Hampshire meat-packer to national symbol - Alton Ketchum recounts the rise and rise of Uncle Sam Wilson.

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...

John Erickson reviews new titles on the Soviet dictator

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...

New titles exploring German history, pre- and post-war

Two new books on the impact of the Great War

Richard Cavendish on a Great War remembrance group

Edited by J.R. McMichael and Barbara Taft

The early modern Reformation in Europe

Edited by Stephen Ozment

Marika Sherwood on race and exploitation at sea.

John Crossland on the ethical dilemmas facing those who wish to dig out Battle of Britain planes and pilots.

Ann Hills on Trinity House and new uses for lighthouses.

Australians can now pinpoint the actual birthplace of their nation in the centre of modern Sydney.

by John N. King

Two new books on the British Prime Minister at the start of the Second World War

Scott Goodfellow on the row over archaeology by tender.

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...

Two new books on the Victorian era

John Springhall on violence in the 19th-century media

Late seventeenth-century persecutor of Covenanters or Jacobite hero?

Aram Bakshian delves into the annexe of Presidents in Washington DC

Christopher Chippindale talks about hands-on archaeology

Mary Shortt recounts how the Canadian theatre fostered and reflected sentiment for the Mother Country between 1850 and 1940.

Popular Politics in the Age of Walpole and Pitt

Two books on one of the founders of the Green movement.

Edited by Donald B. Cole and John J. McDonough

by Marianne Elliott

by Ben Witherington Ill; & by Giovanni Filoramo

Two new titles on women and gender in 18th century Britain