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Academic history journal, publishing in all fields and periods. Find our content here: https://academic.oup.com/ehr

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The IHR is saddened by the death of Peter (P.J.) Marshall, historian of the British Empire, and a long-standing member of King's College London's History department. As a long-time friend, supporter, and Fellow of the IHR, he will be greatly missed and remembered for his kindness and courtesy.

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'One can only marvel at the stoicism it must have taken on the part of the author to write about these cases... I cannot recall when I last read a work of academic history that made me want to reach into the text and hold the hand of a protagonist. I did on this occasion.' - reviewed in English Historical Review

'One can only marvel at the stoicism it must have taken on the part of the author to write about these cases... I cannot recall when I last read a work of academic history that made me want to reach into the text and hold the hand of a protagonist. I did on this occasion.' - reviewed in English Historical Review

'One can only marvel at the stoicism it must have taken on the part of the author to write about these cases... I cannot recall when I last read a work of academic history that made me want to reach into the text and hold the hand of a protagonist. I did on this occasion.' @enghistrev.bsky.social

01.08.2025 14:15 — 👍 6    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0
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Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy: The Virtuous Republic of Francesco Patrizi of Siena, By James Hankins Francesco Patrizi (1413–1494) was an eminently learned Italian Renaissance humanist from Siena, who later ruled over Gaeta as a Catholic Bishop until his d

Katharine Robadiek reviews 'Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy: The Virtuous Republic of Francesco Patrizi of Siena', By James Hankins

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29.07.2025 10:44 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Death and Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern World: Perspectives from the Mediterranean and Beyond, By Lori Jones, Nükhet Varlık This generous and meticulously edited volume is a valuable resource for scholars in all fields of history, not limited to the history of medicine and publi

Carol Symes reviews 'Death and Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern World: Perspectives from the Mediterranean and Beyond', ed. Lori Jones and Nükhet Varlık

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29.07.2025 10:42 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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From Dung to Food: Mushroom Cultivation in Eighteenth-Century Britain* Abstract. This article traces the rise of the French art of raising mushrooms in beds, its introduction to Britain and its subsequent evolution in the eigh

New article on advance access: Di Lu on 'From Dung to Food: Mushroom Cultivation in Eighteenth-Century Britain'

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29.07.2025 10:39 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Spotlight Reviews English Historical Review publishes up to seventy book reviews in each issue. We cover a very wide range of historical scholarship and encourage readers to brow

New selection of Open Access reviews in our Spotlight today! From Egypt to Japan, Mexico to the streets of London, from the early medieval to the contemporary, we aim to cover all periods and places. Article submissions in all areas also very welcome!
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24.07.2025 08:09 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Volume 140 Issue 603 | The English Historical Review | Oxford Academic The oldest journal of historical scholarship in the English-speaking world. Publishes original and exciting research relating to all parts of the world and all forms of historical inquiry from the Cla...

Our April issue is online! From Whitby to Nairobi, from the 12th to the 20th century, find some summer reading here! Also a full range of book reviews.

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18.07.2025 08:11 — 👍 7    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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Review of “Mid-Tudor Queenship and Memory: The Making and Re-making of Lady Jane Grey and Mary I” Review of Mid-Tudor Queenship and Memory: The Making and Re-making of Lady Jane Grey and Mary I, ed. Valerie Schutte and Jessica S. Hower (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). The review is published i…

As I was packing up my books for an impending move, I came across this beauty and remembered that I recently wrote a review of it for @enghistrev.bsky.social. Please do take a look! drjohannastrong.ca/2025/04/26/r...

#MaryI #Tudors #monarchy #queenship #royalstudies @royalstudies.bsky.social

16.07.2025 12:18 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

And with the English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social, the Rivista storica italiana, the Czech Historical Review and the Historische Zeitschrift.

We will ask what makes for a „flagship“ journal, if we need them, how powerful they are and whether the above are actually ones.

07.07.2025 06:46 — 👍 14    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
Screen shot of word document detailing information about the “power couples” conference. Please email z.thomas@bham.ac.uk for more info.

Screen shot of word document detailing information about the “power couples” conference. Please email z.thomas@bham.ac.uk for more info.

Call for Papers, please share! “Power Couples? Collaborations at work and at home, c.1750-1914” workshop to be held at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany 11-13 May 2026. Deadline for expression of interest 1 Sep 2025. Please see more info in the attached & email me if any questions.

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New article on open access! James Davey on 'The Birth of Naval History: Audience and Objectivity in British Eighteenth-Century Historical Writing'

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21.06.2025 09:38 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 2
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Cattle, Chattel, and Capital: Animal Agency and the Alimentary Atlantic Abstract. During the first centuries of colonialism in the Caribbean, the choices of cattle influenced the establishment of European settlements, the creat

New article on advance access! Charlton W Yingling and Andrew Kettler on 'Cattle, Chattel, and Capital: Animal Agency and the Alimentary Atlantic'

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20.06.2025 16:10 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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New article on open access! James Davey on 'The Birth of Naval History: Audience and Objectivity in British Eighteenth-Century Historical Writing'

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20.06.2025 16:13 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Cattle, Chattel, and Capital: Animal Agency and the Alimentary Atlantic Abstract. During the first centuries of colonialism in the Caribbean, the choices of cattle influenced the establishment of European settlements, the creat

New article on advance access! Charlton W Yingling and Andrew Kettler on 'Cattle, Chattel, and Capital: Animal Agency and the Alimentary Atlantic'

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20.06.2025 16:10 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Spotlight Reviews English Historical Review publishes up to seventy book reviews in each issue. We cover a very wide range of historical scholarship and encourage readers to brow

We also have a selection of reviews from our December issue on Open Access, here: academic.oup.com/ehr/pages/sp...

11.06.2025 12:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Henry VIII, the Duke of Albany and the Anglo-Scottish War of 1522–24, By Neil Murphy In recent years, historians have come to a better understanding of the role played by war in the formation of the constituent kingdoms of the British Isles

David Grummitt @davidgrummitt.bsky.social reviews 'Henry VIII, the Duke of Albany and the Anglo-Scottish War of 1522–24', By Neil Murphy

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11.06.2025 11:57 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Frontier Narratives: Liminal Lives in the Early Modern Mediterranean, By Steven Hutchinson The publication of the paperback edition of Steven Hutchinson’s outstanding book is an opportunity to re-evaluate the breadth of the author’s Mediterranean

Daniel Hershenzon reviews 'Frontier Narratives: Liminal Lives in the Early Modern Mediterranean', by Steven Hutchinson

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11.06.2025 11:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Onomantic Divination in Late Medieval Britain: Questioning Life, Predicting Death, By Joanne Edge Divination is the art of interpreting signs, sometimes with the help of specialists, to predict the future or uncover hidden things. In late medieval Brita

Sophie Page reviews 'Onomantic Divination in Late Medieval Britain: Questioning Life, Predicting Death', by Joanne Edge @hagenilda.bsky.social

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11.06.2025 11:53 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1
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The Pigments of British Medieval Illuminators: A Scientific and Cultural Study, By Richard Gameson, Andrew Beeby, Flavia Fiorillo, Catherine Nicholson, Paola Ricciardi , Suzanne Reynolds, Mila Crippa,... Studying medieval manuscript illumination can involve a fair amount of educated guesswork, being based as much on scholars’ subjective intuition and expert

Benjamin Pohl reviews 'The Pigments of British Medieval Illuminators: A Scientific and Cultural Study', by Richard Gameson, Andrew Beeby, Flavia Fiorillo, Catherine Nicholson, Paola Ricciardi , Suzanne Reynolds, Mila Crippa, Anna Mazzinghi, Lucia Pereira-Pardo

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11.06.2025 11:51 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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The Power of Protocol: Diplomatics and the Dynamics of Papal Government, c.400–c.1600, By D.L. d’Avray David d’Avray’s latest book—his third since 2019—is the fruit of decades spent researching the medieval papacy, and years teaching the basics of papal Dipl

Benedict Wiedemann reviews 'The Power of Protocol: Diplomatics and the Dynamics of Papal Government, c.400–c.1600', by D.L. d’Avray

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11.06.2025 11:49 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 2
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Bible Missals and the Medieval Dominican Liturgy, By Innocent Smith Until the mid-twentieth century, historians and others interested in the diversity of the pre-Tridentine liturgies of the Western Church were limited in th

Matthew Salisbury reviews Bible Missals and the Medieval Dominican Liturgy, by Innocent Smith, OP

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11.06.2025 11:47 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you @farinamir.bsky.social for a generous and perceptive review of Scripts of Power!

10.06.2025 13:24 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

"This is an extremely valuable contribution to the study of early medieval agriculture and an important landmark for the FeedSax project."
New Perspectives on the Medieval ‘Agricultural Revolution’ is available #OpenAccess on the LUP website: bit.ly/4e1FlXa @clarelitt.bsky.social #MedievalSky

10.06.2025 06:58 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Anti-Communism in Britain during the Early Cold War: A Very British Witch Hunt Matthew Gerth’s book is the first full-length study of its subject and a welcome addition to the research literature on early Cold War Britain. Much of it

Giora Goodman reviews 'Anti-Communism in Britain during the Early Cold War: A Very British Witch Hunt', by Matthew Gerth

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09.06.2025 12:37 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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New Perspectives on the Medieval ‘Agricultural Revolution’: Crop, Stock and Furrow, By Mark McKerracher, Helena Hamerow This edited volume is the product of a conference which emerged from the FeedSax project (Feeding Anglo-Saxon England: The Bioarchaeology of an Agricultura

Aleks Pluskowski reviews 'New Perspectives on the Medieval ‘Agricultural Revolution’: Crop, Stock and Furrow', ed. Mark McKerracher and Helena Hamerow

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09.06.2025 12:36 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 3
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Pouvoir et solidarités d’une famille seigneuriale: Le ‘Parentat’ Lusignan entre France, Îles Britanniques et Orient latin (Xe–XIVe siècles), By Clément de Vasselot de Régné The Lusignan dynasty receive ample treatment in this thorough book by Clément de Vasselot de Régné. The castle of Lusignan, about twenty miles south-west o

Seymour Phillips reviews 'Pouvoir et solidarités d’une famille seigneuriale: Le ‘Parentat’ Lusignan entre France, Îles Britanniques et Orient latin (Xe–XIVe siècles)', by Clément de Vasselot de Régné

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09.06.2025 12:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Materiality of Medieval Administration in Northern England, By Abigail S. Armstrong The records of the bishops of Durham and the earls of Northumberland are among the most substantial archives surviving from later medieval England, and the

Nicholas Karn @nicholaskarn.bsky.social reviews 'The Materiality of Medieval Administration in Northern England', by Abigail S. Armstrong @medievalabby.bsky.social

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09.06.2025 12:33 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Scripts of Power: Writing, Language Practices, and Cultural History in Western India, By Prachi Deshpande This book provides a layered examination of histories of the Marathi language from the early modern period to the present. Marathi is the primary language

Farina Mir @farinamir.bsky.social reviews 'Scripts of Power: Writing, Language Practices, and Cultural History in Western India', by Prachi Deshpande @prarochana.bsky.social

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09.06.2025 12:31 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History, By Peter Brown Such a readable book by a famous writer has naturally received reviews in the literary magazines and quality broadsheets, but why the English Historical Re

David d'Avray reviews 'Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History', by Peter Brown

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09.06.2025 12:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 2
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Teaching Plato in Italian Renaissance Universities, By Eva Del Soldato, Maude Vanhaelen It has long been known that Aristotle formed the backbone of the Arts curriculum in the universities of medieval and Renaissance Europe, and that Plato was

David Lines reviews 'Teaching Plato in Italian Renaissance Universities', ed. Eva Del Soldato and Maude Vanhaelen

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09.06.2025 12:28 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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