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The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · May 12
Please note: EHR no longer has a physical office, so please don't send books to the Oxford address. If you would like us to consider your publication for review in the journal, email the details to ehr@history.ox.ac.uk.
We will still supply print copies of books to reviewers wherever possible.
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Marking the anniversary of the Miners' Strike of 1984/5, Keith Gildart reflects on a selection of recent titles in a new Review Article: 'Which Side Are You On Boys? Revisiting the History of British Coal Miners and the Strike of 1984/5'

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Which Side Are You On Boys? Revisiting the History of British Coal Miners and the Strike of 1984/5
The year 2025 marks the fortieth anniversary of the end of the bitter twelve-month miners’ strike of 1984/5. The dominance of coal in British energy produc
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November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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'Do we need humanities graduates to deliver the industrial strategy?' bit.ly/4oHCWEQ

New @russellgroup.bsky.social research highlights how many humanities graduates take up careers in the government's priority sectors, as set out in the recent White Paper #Skystorians 1/2
Do we need humanities graduates to deliver the industrial strategy?
Policymakers should take a broad view of the value of degree courses when building our future workforce, says Charlotte Hallahan
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November 3, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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We are looking to hire a part-time freelance managing editor at @conteurohistory.bsky.social. Applications are due 30 November and you can find the full details here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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November 3, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Thank you @lflannigan17.bsky.social for this really thoughtful review of our #PowerOfPetitioning book! doi.org/10.1093/ehr/...

She's right that 16th-century petitions don't get enough attention here, but you can read the 'ambitious' book for yourself to find out more: uclpress.co.uk/book/the-pow...
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October 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Laura Flannigan @lflannigan17.bsky.social reviews 'The Power of Petitioning in Early Modern Britain', ed. Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social and Jason Peacey

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The Power of Petitioning in Early Modern Britain, ed. Brodie Waddell and Jason Peacey
That petitions were a key conduit for political and social relations in early modernity is now a historiographical commonplace. This collection of essays c
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October 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Amy Blakeway reviews 'Life at the Margins in Early Modern Scotland', ed. Allan Kennedy @allankennedy.bsky.social and Susanne Weston

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Life at the Margins in Early Modern Scotland, ed. Allan Kennedy and Susanne Weston
While those groups considered ‘marginal’ to early modern society have garnered considerable interest in a range of European contexts—and, indeed, provoked
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October 16, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Michael Bentley reviews 'German Migrant Historians in North America: Transatlantic Careers and Scholarship after 1945', ed. Karen Hagemann and Konrad H. Jarausch

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German Migrant Historians in North America: Transatlantic Careers and Scholarship after 1945, ed. Karen Hagemann and Konrad H. Jarausch
This theme has attracted a good deal of scholarship since James Sheehan and Hartmut Lehmann began the trend in a volume sponsored by the then recently-esta
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October 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Conor O'Brien reviews 'The Age of Alfred: Rethinking English Literary Culture c.850–950', ed. Amy Faulkner and Francis Leneghan

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The Age of Alfred: Rethinking English Literary Culture c.850–950, ed. Amy Faulkner and Francis Leneghan
Alfred the Great remains one of the best-known authors in Old English literature. He is also one of the most controversial, especially since Malcolm Godden
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October 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Joseph S Meisel reviews 'Lecturing the Victorians: Knowledge-Based Culture and Participatory Citizenship', by Anne B. Rodrick @chattyfootnote.bsky.social

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Lecturing the Victorians: Knowledge-Based Culture and Participatory Citizenship, by Anne B. Rodrick
Anne Rodrick’s monograph anatomises the workings of ‘knowledge-based culture’ by examining the institutions that offered lectures for a broad public on lit
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October 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Noah Millstone reviews 'Political Culture, the State, and the Problem of Religious War in Britain and Ireland, 1578–1625', by R. Malcolm Smuts

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Political Culture, the State, and the Problem of Religious War in Britain and Ireland, 1578–1625, by R. Malcolm Smuts
Malcolm Smuts is a difficult historian to categorise. A student of Lawrence Stone, Smuts has long been associated with two major interventions. The first w
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October 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Miles Larmer reviews 'Black Soldiers in the Rhodesian Army: Colonialism, Professionalism, and Race', by M.T. Howard

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Black Soldiers in the Rhodesian Army: Colonialism, Professionalism, and Race, by M.T. Howard
The study of armies and soldiers in recent African history has progressed considerably in the last decade. In place of an uninformative structural approach
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October 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Jane Whittle @jwhittle.bsky.social reviews 'The Social Topography of a Rural Community: Scenes of Labouring Life in Seventeenth-Century England', by Steve Hindle

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The Social Topography of a Rural Community: Scenes of Labouring Life in Seventeenth-Century England, by Steve Hindle
There are many ways to write history, and historians form tribes according to the methods they consider appropriate for conveying an understanding of the p
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October 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Jessica Patterson @jempatterson.bsky.social reviews 'Empire of Influence: The East India Company and the Making of Indirect Rule', by Callie Wilkinson @chwilkinson.bsky.social

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Empire of Influence: The East India Company and the Making of Indirect Rule, by Callie Wilkinson
Much recent historiography has argued against a narrow understanding of modern empire. From chartered companies to trustees and protectorates, the models o
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October 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Jim van der Meulen reviews 'The Fabric of the City: A Social History of Cloth Manufacture in Medieval Ypres', by Peter Stabel

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The Fabric of the City: A Social History of Cloth Manufacture in Medieval Ypres, by Peter Stabel
The city of Ypres is primarily known today as one of the principal theatres of the First World War. To medievalists, however, the city is famed as one of t
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October 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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J. Suzanne Farmer reviews 'Objects of Liberty: British Women Writers and Revolutionary Souvenirs', by Pamela Buck

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Objects of Liberty: British Women Writers and Revolutionary Souvenirs, by Pamela Buck
Pamela Buck has written a thoughtful examination of material culture and the formation of British national identity during the French Revolutionary and Nap
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October 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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S.I. Rubinstein reviews 'The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the Present', by Oswyn Murray

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The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the Present, by Oswyn Murray
It is conventional for historians to spend their retirement writing about their life, their institution or their discipline. Oswyn Murray has done all thre
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October 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Brian Harrison reviews 'The Mystique of Running the Public House in England: Quest for El Dorado, 1840–1939', by David W. Gutzke

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The Mystique of Running the Public House in England: Quest for El Dorado, 1840–1939, by David W. Gutzke
The study of modern British history has for many years owed much to North American scholars, and to no university more than Toronto; it was from there that
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October 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Glenn Richardson @glennrichardson.bsky.social reviews 'Comment la confiance vient aux princes: Les rencontres princières, 1494–1788', by Jean-Maire Le Gall and Claude Michaud

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Comment la confiance vient aux princes: Les rencontres princières, 1494–1788, by Jean-Maire Le Gall and Claude Michaud
Citing as their starting point Machiavelli’s observation that ‘princes should do their utmost to escape being at the mercy of others’, Jean-Maire Le Gall a
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October 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Jack H Guenther reviews ‘"Die Scylla und Charybdis der socialen Frage": Urbane Sicherheitsentwürfe in Hamburg und London (1880–1900)', by Christine G. Krüger @chrigkrueg.bsky.social

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‘Die Scylla und Charybdis der socialen Frage’: Urbane Sicherheitsentwürfe in Hamburg und London (1880–1900), by Christine G. Krüger
Christine G. Krüger’s book tells the tale of two port cities at the eclipse of the nineteenth century. These port cities—London and Hamburg—were bound to e
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October 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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William Whyte reviews 'Modernism’s Magic Hat: Architecture and the Illusion of Development without Capital', by Ijlal Muzaffar

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Modernism’s Magic Hat: Architecture and the Illusion of Development without Capital, by Ijlal Muzaffar
Working in British West Africa between 1946 and 1956, the architect Edwin Maxwell Fry showed himself a persuasive advocate for the power of modern design.
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October 16, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Ali Anooshahr reviews 'Comparative and Global Framing of Enslavement', ed. Stephan Conermann, Youval Rotman, Ehud R. Toledano and Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz

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Comparative and Global Framing of Enslavement, ed. Stephan Conermann, Youval Rotman, Ehud R. Toledano and Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz
The present volume comprises a collection of papers originally presented at a 2019 workshop held at Tel Aviv University that explored the interactions betw
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October 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Mary MacDiarmada reviews 'Conflict, Diaspora and Empire: Irish Nationalism in Britain, 1912–1922', by Darragh Gannon @dgannon2016.bsky.social

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Conflict, Diaspora and Empire: Irish Nationalism in Britain, 1912–1922, by Darragh Gannon
One outcome of the ‘decade of centenaries’ which focused on the Irish Revolution of 1912–22 has been a new emphasis on the role of the Irish diaspora, part
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October 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Ana Echevarria reviews 'Narrative, Piety and Polemic in Medieval Spain: Biblical Rhetoric in the Reconquest Chronicles of León-Castile', by Alun Williams

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Narrative, Piety and Polemic in Medieval Spain: Biblical Rhetoric in the Reconquest Chronicles of León-Castile, by Alun Williams
This study focuses on the twelfth- and thirteenth-century Iberian chronicles and the way in which their authors used epic modes, biblical narrative and exe
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October 16, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Peter Gurney reviews 'Building a Social Science: Nineteenth-Century British Cooperative Thought', by Kirsten Madden and Joseph Persky

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Building a Social Science: Nineteenth-Century British Cooperative Thought, by Kirsten Madden and Joseph Persky
Economists have largely ignored the rich history of co-operation. In Britain, theoretical writings and practical experiments in co-operative, democratic ­m
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October 16, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social reviews 'Democracy in Darkness: Secrecy and Transparency in the Age of Revolutions', by Katlyn Marie Carter

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Democracy in Darkness: Secrecy and Transparency in the Age of Revolutions, by Katlyn Marie Carter
A book about secrecy and transparency in politics needs to be both subtle and hard-hitting; when it is also comparative, treating both the American and Fre
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October 16, 2025 at 11:01 AM