1997
Christopher Ray argues that Hitler's high-profile plan for invading Britain was a blind - his main intention was to fool Stalin into believing he was safe. |
David UnderdownLaw Making and Society in Late Elizabethan EnglandDavid DeadPower in Tudor EnglandDavid LoadesThe Stuart Court and Europe: Essays in Politics and... |
Peter Bakewell |
John Morrill looks at two varying works on 17th century Britain. |
M. Naeem Qureshi on a remnant of empire which has moved beyond being a mere repository of the Raj. |
Bernice Archer opens our new series with an account of the intriguing hidden messages stitched into Red Cross quilts by British women POWs of the Japanese. |
Steve Smith on two books which explore early 20th-century Russian history. |
Susan Layton on how the Russians viewed the Chechens in their struggle for autonomy - in the 1840s as well as the 1990s. |
Penny Young investigates the Tawila tanks of Aden, in Yemen. |
David Washbrook on how the trauma of mutiny was catalyst to a new imperial vision - courtesy of skilful Victorian public relations for the subcontinent. |
Fools' gold, Dr Faustus - traditional images of a Renaissance black art. But was there more to it than that? Zbigniew Szydlo and Richard Brzezinski offer... |
Edited by Chris Given-WilsonWestminster Abbey and the Plantagenets: Kingship and the Representation of Power, 1200-1400Paul Binski |
Robert Pearce reviews a biography of the Conservative politician and Prime Minister. |
Tony Aldous reports on the latest developments in archaeological practice. |
David Nash on how Victorian arguments about design in the universe echo in science-theology debates today. |
Blair has a hard act to follow, according to Robert Pearce's assessment of the architect of the previous Labour landslide in 1945. |
The Soviet Union is now history but what do the ordinary people who lived through its last decades remember about it and what verdict do they give? Per Manson... |
‘Bedlam’ has become a by-word for a wild and crazy place, but what is the historical reality behind a distinguished London institution? Roy Porter offers an... |
November 10th, 1697 |
Matthew Christmas sifts through recent approaches to class and gender in history. |
Ivan Roots estimates the impact of two new studies of early Stuart Politics. |
Christopher Ray welcomes the first titles of a lively new series for sixth formers and university students. |
Jeremy Black notes the limitations of a famous series. |
Robert Pearce commends two sixth-from guides to modern British politics. |
Jeremy Black recommends a fine summary of a still-underrated 19th-century British statesman. |
Robert Pearce looks at a useful guide to a misunderstood politician. |
Peter Wilson recommends an indispensable overview of the growth of Britain's Navy. |
C.D.C. Armstrong reviews four important publications on Tudor government and politics. |
John Geipel on how the enforced diaspora of the slave trade shaped South America’s largest nation. |
Tony Aldous investigates the story behind Grey Street in Newcastle upon Tyne |
|
Sarah Foster offers a fascinating account of how Irish identity, with its sectarian implications, asserted itself in the manufacture and purchase of luxury goods... |
|
Ivor Wynne Jones on how a dusty garage in Cairo was once the unlikely setting for keeping up British morale with 'Music for All'. |
Richard Cavendish visits Capesthorne Hall in Cheshire. |
Partha Mitter looks at how tensions and cultural interchange between Indians and Britons are conveyed in the imagery of the colonial period. |
Dirk Bennett sheds new light on the origin and history of chariot racing as a sport, and explores its popular and political role from pre-classical Greece to the fall... |
April 24th, 1547 |
David Bates examines a Tudor Christmas Fare at Hampton Court Palace. |
Ron White draws on the diaries of Samuel Pepys to paint a picture of the festive season in the 1660s. |
Henry PhillipsThe Making of the French Episcopate, 1589-1661J. Bergin |
Richard Cavendish describes the brief rule of Cola di Rienzi following his coup d'etat on May 20th, 1347. |
October 5th, 1497 |
500 years after their uprising against Henry VII, Mark Stoyle discusses why the Cornish were different - and often rebellious - in Tudor and Stuart England. |
Richard Bellamy demonstrates the contemporary relevance of an eighteenth-century debate. |
The latest titles on the history of crime and authority. |
Richard Cavendish remembers the events of May 16th, 1847. |
Stuart Andrews on three titles which looks at the Founding Fathers. |
November 4th, 1847 |
January 27th, 1898 |
Richard Cavendish unravels Crimean and other military links at Deene Park in Northamptonshire. |
Tony Aldous discovers a secret pocket of historic mills and warehouses in the Bow Creek area of London. |
Richard Cavendish takes an indepth look into the history of Eastnor Castle. |
Frank Prochaska reviews two volumes on the British monarchy in the modern age. |
Sean McGlynn reviews three titles on medieval chivalry and warfare. |
Richard Cavendish charts the life and work of Edmund Burke, who died on July 9th, 1797. |
Pawn of elder statesmen or, as Matthew Christmas argues, another Henry VIII in the making? |
Michael Rice |
David Kirby on three titles concerned with rulers, conflict and early modern Russia. |
Martin Dedman recalls the background to European Monetary Union. |
Asa Briggs reviews a biography by Christine Sutherland |
Martin Evans reviews two titles on Liberation and Resistance |
Paul Preston amplifies recent claims that Franco offered safe havens to fugitive Nazis |
David Parker defends a controversial term against its critics. |
Judith Brown assesses the curious coupling of sage and politician that achieved much - but not all - for Hindu aspirations. |
Michael Leech commemorates the 1,000th birthday of Gdansk. |
A History of the Jews in the English-Speaking World: Great Britain by W. D. Rubinstein (Macmillan viii + 539 pp.) |
Barry Coward looks at the latest publications on Puritans and Quakers and how they shaped 17th century England. |
Shulamith ShaharThe Eye of the Beholder. Deformity & Disability in the Graeco-Roman WorldRobert GarlandOld Age in Late Medieval EnglandJoel T. Rosenthal |
Standing up for truth and justice - or mid-Victorian realpolitik? Klari Kingston looks at the twists and turns of British foreign policy leading up to the Crimean War... |
Denise Silvester-Carr investigates the restoration of Hardwick Hall, home of Bess of Hardwick. |
Richard Rex argues that the main inspiration for the king's pick-and-mix religion was neither Protestant nor Catholic but Hebraic. |
December 2nd, 1547 |
Paul Goalen on questions of national identity in the classroom. |
Daniel Jonah GoldhagenConfronting the Nazi Past: New Debates on Modern German HistoryEdited by Michael BurleighFascist Italy and Nazi Germany: Comparisions and... |
Catherine Horwood looks at how the launch of Good Housekeeping in the UK 75 years ago heralded a new image of domestic activity. |
Daniel Snowman on commerce and opera over fifty years at Covent Garden. |
Katharine MacDonogh examines three titles on the Napoleonic Wars. |
In the first of a new series, profiling the issues raised by key A-level quetsions, Gareth Affleck identifies the points to discuss. |
Barber examines the medieval Christian view of Muslims and Islam. Casting Islam and Muslims as the enemy was crucial in the Crusades, and the context of conflict... |
‘There was such a generall sighing and groning, and weeping, and the like hath not beene seene or knowne in the memorie of man’ words that conjure up recent scenes of... |
June 2nd, 1497 |
December 26th, 1797 |
Paul Murphy on the Raj pioneers who set in train thoughts of conservation in independent India. |
Vernon Hewitt on one of the bitterest legacies of partition that remains unsolved fifty years on. |
Penny Young details the archaeological work being carried out to save an early Christian church on the Black Sea coast. |
Max Beloff reviews a fresh account of de Gaulle and the Free French movement. |
Martin Evans on witnesses from the Battle of Algiers, forty years on - and their contribution to the debate on contemporary history. |
Penelope Corfield shows that ridiculing the learned professions is not a new thing. |
Charlotte Crow introduces a CD-Rom which explores the history of the River Thames. |
John Plowright reconsiders a lost leader and the battle he won to maintain public order. |
Benjamin Thompson reviews two new titles on medieval lordship. |
by Frederic J. Baumgartner and Robert J. Knecht |
January 30th, 1948 |
Ian Fitzgerald describes the maiden flight of the 'Spruce Goose', the largest seaplane ever built, on November 2nd, 1947. |
Jeremy Black shows how historical atlases have for centuries recorded more than objective fact. |
The son of a fisherman's revolt against Spanish taxes on fruit in Naples, on July 7th, 1647, was part of a wider challenge to Spanish overlordship throughout the... |
Geoffrey Treasure reassesses a tarnished reputation. |
Beatrice Heuser rounds up the latest military publications in paperback. |
October 26th, 1497 |
Michael Collins deals with two publications on financial history. |
July 24th, 1847 |
|
Ian Fitzgerald surveys developments on the Internet, videos and CD-ROMS relating to the history world. |
Robert Irwin on how Islam saw the Christian invaders. |
April 15th, 1797 |
John Dunne follows historians along the trail signposted by Geyl fifty years ago. |
Michael Rapport describes the last days of the old Revolutionary regime and the circumstances leading to the young general’s triumph at the coup of 18-19 Brumaire. |
In the first of our mini-series on the Nazis and social culture, Lisa Pine looks at how lessons in the classroom were perverted in the service of the Third Reich... |
June 5th, 1647 |
Richard Wilkinson argues that Cromwell had what it took to rule Britain but failed to achieve his own idealistic programme. |
Eric Evans reviews a complex study of debates about the nature of history. |
Angela Morgan traces the recovery of a Saxon horse and rider, recently discovered in Suffolk. |
Robert Pearce gives us a view of George Orwell for the 1990s |
Lucy Jayne Kamau looks at the competing versions of the nineteenth-century pioneer past that folk history and the heritage industry have forged. |
Murial Chamberlain argues that current conceptions of Britain's power in the Victorian era owe more to his media management than to his foreign policy. |
Industrial Society and Culture |
Susan Mary Grrant reviews paperbacks on the twin subjects of slavery and abolition |
Mushirul Hasan looks at the reflection of the trauma and tragedy of partition through literature and personal histories. |
by Kenneth Maxwell; John Hardman; and by Munro Price |
Ian Locke investigates an intriguing and little-known attempt to commandeer Third Reich assets as reparations - and its mixed results. |
Two works exploring 17th- and 18th-century France. |
The houses built by Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, are a reflection of his career under Henry VIII, says Maurice Howard, and the King's manipulation of those... |
Elizabeth Longford juxtaposes two heavyweights of the 19th century. |
It was like a page from the Arabian Nights. Aladdin’s lamp had been rubbed and suddenly from the dry, brown bare desert had appeared paintings, not just one nor a... |
Richard Wilkinson challenges the consensus of contempt for the Nazis' leading diplomat. |
Steve Gunn samples two books on English government and politics in the Middle Ages. |
Clive Foss tells how the airship phenomenon caught the imagination of the Soviet Union – becoming a key propaganda tool to Stalin, both at home and abroad. |
Alex Barker reports on a History conference at the Tower of London |
Why did Goering and Goebbels fall out over a performance of Richard III? Gerwin Strobl on this and other intriguing reasons why the Bard mattered to the Third Reich... |
January 12th, 1848 |
October 13th, 1947 |
Mark Bevir reports on two books which look at western socialism in the twentieth century. |
Richard Cavendish describes the launch of the Second Crusade on May 19th, 1147. |
Coming home to mother? Bhikhu Parekh on the impact the subcontinent’s peoples have had (and continue to have) in Britain itself. |
Our seasonal round-up of the latest history titles from the publishing world catering for the general reader and specialist alike. |
Chris BryantMichael Heseltine: A BiographyMichael Crick |
C. John Sommerville on networking in 17th-century coffee houses. |
Patrick O'Brian evaluates the costs and benefits of Hanoverian and Victorian government. |
A cabinet of curiosities or a medium for enlightening the general public? Patricia Fara looks at how debate over democratising scientific knowledge crystalised in... |
A.J. NichollsDissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the end of East GermanyCharles S. Maier |
|
Miriam Griffin studies three works on Roman history |
John France recounts the against-the-odds narrative of the capture of the Holy City by the forces of the First Crusade. |
Sheila Rowbotham reviews two titles on aspects of social history |
|
|
Christopher Harvie brings into the light a little-known pioneer of European federalism |
John Law assesses two works on a power struggle in 15th-century Italy. |
by Jay Winter and Blaine Baggett |
Graham Roberts reveals the techniques displayed in an early example of Soviet film propaganda made to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution. |
Julia Findlater explores two publications on the heritage industry and archaeology. |
The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History The Discovery of the Past: The Origins of ArchaeologyThe Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History by David Lowenthal (Viking xii + 338pp. ) The Discovery of the Past: The Origins of Archaeology by Alan Schnapp (... |
Peter Cotgreave explains how modern scientists can use their predecessors' data. |
Rosemary Horrox delves into two volumes on the reign of Henry VI. |
Ray Boston examines two books on cartoons and caricatures. |
Edward Royle explains how labels were used in early industrial Britain for propaganda rather than description. |
Edited by H.R. Kedward and Nancy WoodMarching to Captivity. The War Diaries of a French PeasantGustave Folcher, translated by Christopher HillRescue as Resistance.... |
Malgorzata Dabrowska challenges two books on Byzantium. |
|
Francis Robinson considers what the Muslims wanted - and what they got - out of the decision to divide the subcontinent on religious lines. |
Graham Darby argues that the Bolshevik success of 1917 was rooted in the failings of the Provisional Government and the aspiration of ordinary people. |
Robert Pearce distributes a survival kit for the most hazardous causation question of all. |
To be a pilgrim - a choice that led not to contemplation but to holy war in the climate of eleventh-century Europe. Marcus Bull asks why. |
Robert Bruce asks if China has refound Confucius. |
Peter BrownThe Frankish World, 750-900Janet L. NelsonThe New Cambridge Medieval History Volume II, c.700-c.900ed. Rosalind McKitterich |
Richard Hodges unites oral tradition and archaeological evidence to reconstruct the story of the Dark Age destruction of an Italian monastery |
A History of the Ritual Year in Britain by Ronald Hutton |
Introductory chronology for this special commemorative issue marking 50 years since Britain relinquished colonial rule in the Indian subcontinent. |
|
Stephen Howe samples two titles on British politics, society and royalty |
Henry Chadwick explores two publications on the strength and fall of the Romans. |
Joshua Kleinfeld explores Lincoln’s attitudes towards the constitution and civil liberty during the Civil War, and finds their impact still reverberating in the US... |
In the conclusion to our series, Nigel Saul discusses attempts to revive the crusading zeal in late medieval Europe and explains why they failed to rekindle the... |
|
Derek Aldcroft argues that the statesmen of 1919 failed to act in the interests of Europe as a whole. |
Sue Margeson |
Martin Pugh charts the Women's Movement's origins and growth 1850-1939. |
edited by Dale Hoak and Mordechai Feingold; and Tony Claydon |
The 1997 Julia Wood Award. The winner of the first prize is Criseyda Cox of Cheltenham Ladies' College, for the essay on Thomas Hobbes published below. |
Felipe Fernández Armesto reflects on the death of some historical figures. |
Pamela Tudor-Craig questions why modern improvements to the wheelchair have not not kept pace with earlier centuries. |
|
Edward Pearce on how the Conservative Party have faced defeat in yesteryear. |
|
Pamela Tudor-Craig on the intriguing webs of history tied into the toy theatre. |
Edward Pearce on Anglo-Irish affairs between the bid for Irish Home Rule in 1886 and the outbreak of civil war. |
|
C.D.C. Armstrong looks at three new Tudor studies. |
Ann Hills takes a look at the development of tourism in former Communist countries. |
Our survey of reactions and prospects for the subject in British universities after the Dearing Report. |
Ivan Roots applies the 'new British' perspective to the 1650s. |
June 5th, 1947 |
Michael Leech previews the Jan van Eyck exhibition at the National Gallery. |
Ian Fitzgerald takes a look at virtual reality history sites. |
|
Dresden was carpet-bombed by the allied forces over two nights in February 1945. Anthony Clayton on how the aftermath of war has tested belief in the city. |
Gavin Weightman finds historical precedents for Britain’s response to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. |
The End of Empire in Africa |
Tanika Sarkar examines the evolving position of women in India before 1947 and since independence. |
St Paul's Cathedral was opened on December 2nd, 1697. |
Sexual improprieties and rows between religious orders - not 1990s scandal sheet headlines about the Catholic Church, but a tale from 13th-century Spain, unravelled... |
Michael Mullett looks at the contradictory attitudes and mixed achievements of a courageous reformer. |
- Home
- Location
- Period
- Themes
- Magazine
- Subscribe
- Archive
- Ebooks
- Students
- Blogs
- Contact