If the Cold War is seen primarily as a struggle by all means short of direct military conflict between the United States and its allies, on the one hand, a

This year, President Donald Trump will lead celebrations of the sepquentenniel (250th) anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence. A showman with a

Abstract. This article explores the relationship between Thatcherism and the picket line. The picket line in late twentieth-century Britain was a space in

Abstract. When six British engineers working in the Soviet Union, along with several local contractors, were arrested, interrogated and tried for the crime

Abstract. What happens when war fails to offer the opportunity for a glorious death? And what if the enemy you set out to fight fails to show up, only for

Abstract. This article explores the way Irish nationalists in the 1830s and 1840s understood and condemned British imperial policy in times of trouble, whi

Abstract. This article considers British interest in Paraguay during the rule of its first dictator Dr José Gaspar Rodriguez de Francia (1814–1840). At Fra

Abstract. In the period 1650–1715, a growing consensus emerged that educational culture in England did not meet the needs of the population, and that chang

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This book marks an important contribution to the fields of women’s and gender history in Scotland. Encompassing an ambitious chronological sweep, it demons

In 1998, with the publication of his first book The Economy of Obligation, Craig Muldrew transformed our understanding not only of early modern debt and cr

Satnam Singh’s study focuses on the intellectual production of the court of Guru Gobind Singh, the Tenth Guru of the Sikhs, and the founder of the Khalsa c

Military entrepreneurship, the business of war and the privatisation of state functions in early modern Europe have been the focus of much scholarly attent

Covering the period from the sighting of the Pacific in 1513 until the resumption of transoceanic trade in 1641, Being the Heart of the World analyses how

In this book, Alan Strathern follows up on his 2019 Unearthly Powers, a work which set out to develop a model for understanding how religion and political

Noa Shashar examines an early modern legal scenario that might initially appear marginal to historians outside the field of Jewish studies: Jewish women wh

Despite innumerable studies of the history of the Republic of Venice produced during some two centuries of professional historiography, this topic does not

Abstract. This article seeks to address the underexplored role of language as a marker of identity in the early medieval period by focusing on England in t

Abstract. A new genre of magic publications became prominent in the vernacular print culture of India in the aftermath of the First World War. It consisted

Abstract. This essay shows that, during the concluding decades of the nineteenth century (1876–1901), various Victorian writers, scholars and politicians s

Abstract. This article analyses the genealogical process that turned Charles V’s second-born son Fernando (1529–30), who died in infancy, into the bearer o

Abstract. The early sixteenth century saw the simultaneous rise of two empires in the Mediterranean: one Christian, ruled by the Habsburgs, based in Spain

Æthelstan is proclaimed as ‘the first king of England’ in the titles of both scholarly biographies of the tenth-century monarch published since 2010: Sarah

Nestled neatly within the cross-disciplinary world of the history of science, ­eighteenth- (and early nineteenth-) century studies, and the history of the

Maritime history has not traditionally informed studies of the Normans and their diasporas across Europe, with just a few exceptions. Of course, the origin

This edited collection examines the ways in which people in the nineteenth-century United States engaged in the act of speculation as a form of knowledge c

There is much to welcome in this first full-length consideration of lodgings ranges, a phenomenon of late fourteenth- to mid-sixteenth-century greater hous

Abstract. The early sixteenth century saw the simultaneous rise of two empires in the Mediterranean: one Christian, ruled by the Habsburgs, based in Spain

Reading’s Bayeux Tapestry is a full-size copy of the original 11th century tapestry. It was created in 1885-1886 by 35 women of the Leek Embroidery Society 'so that England should have a copy of its o...

In this important book, Charles Bolton tracks the ways mobilisation for the Second World War affected the Deep South states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Geor

This fine work is based on multi-lingual and multi-archival research, especially in Chinese and Vietnamese sources. The book focuses on the process of stat

A substantial body of literature exists concerning the National Struggle (or War of Independence) in Turkey from 1919 to 1923, a period marked by the after

‘The history of civilization’, wrote the German-born American sociologist Louis Wirth in 1940, ‘can be written in terms of the history of cities’ (‘The Urb

Organised for the most part chronologically, Wilfred Hammond’s book examines the impact of key events in Elizabeth I’s reign on the Catholic nobility. Howe

Most investigations of nationalism still take the classic studies as their starting point. Over forty years ago, in the annus mirabilis 1983, Benedict Ande

In Invasions, Christian Melby examines what he terms ‘invasion-scare fiction’, or ‘texts where the British Isles are threatened with military invasion or a

Aviva Briefel takes the matter of spiritualism very seriously indeed. This lively and original study examines the physical objects—tables, apports, cabinet

For contemporary observers, Neogranadian artist Gaspar de Figueroa captured an image of religious awe and parishioner diversity when he completed his paint

The importance of hagiography to our understanding of medieval intellectual and spiritual life has been well established. What has perhaps been less thorou