First published in January 1886, The English Historical Review (EHR) is the oldest journal of historical scholarship in the English-speaking world. It deals not only with British history, but also with almost all aspects of European and world history since the classical era: it covers the history of the Americas, including the foreign policy of the USA and her role in the wider world, but excludes the internal history of the USA since Independence, for which other scholarly outlets are plentiful. The EHR includes major Articles, ‘Notes and Documents’, and Debates on medieval and modern themes, as well as an unusually extensive range of Reviews and Shorter Notices of books published throughout the world. A summary of international periodical literature published in the previous twelve months is also provided.
Articles
Was There a Money Economy in Late Anglo-Saxon and Norman England? Henry Fairbairn
Freedom-Seeking Slaves in England and Scotland, 1700–1780 Simon P Newman
Magazine Culture, Girlhood Communities, and Educational Reform in Late Victorian Britain Kathryn Gleadle
The Paradox of National Registration in a Liberal State: The Case of Wartime National Registers in Great Britain, 1915–52 Christine Bellamy
Review Article
Writing the Histories of South Africa’s Cities after Apartheid Timothy Gibbs
Book Reviews
On the Ocean: The Mediterranean and the Atlantic from Prehistory to AD 1500, by Barry Cunliffe Peregrine Horden
Legalism: Property and Ownership, ed. Georgy Kantor, Tom Lambert and Hannah Skoda Paul J Du Plessis
Medieval European Coinage, with a Catalogue of the Coins in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Vol. 8: Britain and Ireland c.400–1066, by Rory Naismith Stewart Lyon
Donor Portraits in Byzantine Art: The Vicissitudes of Contact between Human and Divine, by Rico Franses Liz James
The Gregorian Mission to Kent in Bede’s Ecclesiastical History: Methodology and Sources, by Richard Shaw Conor O’Brien
Anticipating Sin in Medieval Society: Childhood, Sexuality, and Violence in the Early Penitentials, by Erin V. Abraham Atria A Larson
Heirs of the Vikings: History and Identity in Normandy and England, c.950–c.1015, by Katherine Cross Emily A Winkler
Northern England and Southern Scotland in the Central Middle Ages, ed. Keith J. Stringer and Angus J.L. Winchester Robin Frame
The Siege of Acre, 1189–1191: Saladin, Richard the Lionheart, and the Battle that Decided the Third Crusade, by John D. Hosler Stephen J Spencer
Simon V of Montfort and Baronial Government, 1195–1218, by G.E.M. Lippiatt St Ambler
Heimskringla: An Interpretation, by Birgit Sawyer Alison Finlay
Jean sans Terre, by Frédérique Lachaud Michael Clanchy
Viewing Disability in Medieval Spanish Texts: Disgraced or Graced?, by Connie L. Scarborough Rachael Gillibrand
Thomas Aquinas on Bodily Identity, by Antonia Fitzpatrick Oliver Davies
Jüdische Friedhöfe im mitteralterlichen Reich, by Susanne Härtel Anders Andrén
Art and Optics in the Hereford Map: An English Mappa Mundi, c.1300, by Marcia Kupfer Stella Panayotova
Les spectres du bon gouvernement d’Ambrogio Lorenzetti: Artistes, cités communales et seigneurs angevins au Trecento, by Rosa Maria Dessì Diana Norman
Humanism and Empire: The Imperial Ideal in Fourteenth-Century Italy, by Alexander Lee Brian Maxson
The White Book (Liber Albus) of Southwell, ed. Michael Jones, Julia Barrow, David Crook and Trevor Foulds R N Swanson
España a finales de la Edad Media, I: Población. Economía, by Miguel Ángel Ladero Quesada Fabrizio Titone
Maintenance in Medieval England, by Jonathan Rose Hannah Boston
Ceremony and Civility: Civic Culture in Late Medieval London, by Barbara A. Hanawalt Charlotte Berry
In the Mirror of the Prodigal Son: The Pastoral Uses of a Biblical Narrative (c.1200–1550), by Pietro Delcorno Jussi Hanska
Zealots for Souls: Dominican Narratives of Self-Understanding during Observant Reforms, c.1388–1517, by Anne Huijbers Gregory Schnakenberg, OP
The Right Ordering of Souls: The Parish of All Saints’ Bristol on the Eve of the Reformation, by Clive Burgess Katherine Harvey
1517: Martin Luther and the Invention of the Reformation, by Peter Marshall Edmund Wareham
The Making of Martin Luther, by Richard Rex Kat Hill
The Protestant Reformation in a Context of Global History: Religious Reforms and World Civilizations, ed. Heinz Schilling and Silvana Seidel Menchi Sigrun Haude
The Luther Effect in Eastern Europe: History—Memory—Culture, ed. Joachim Bahlcke, Beate Störtkuhl and Matthias Weber, tr. Sarah Patey Phillip Haberkern
From Humanism to Hobbes: Studies in Rhetoric and Politics, by Quentin Skinner Joanne Paul
‘Moors Dressed as Moors’: Clothing, Social Distinction, and Ethnicity in Early Modern Iberia, by Javier Irigoyen-García François Soyer
Narratives of Kingship in Eurasian Empires, 1300–1800, by Richard van Leeuwen Alan Strathern
A Day at Home in Early Modern England: Material Culture and Domestic Life, 1500–1700, by Tara Hamling and Catherine Richardson Susan D Amussen
Dynamik durch Gewalt? Der Dreissigjährige Krieg (1618–1648) als Faktor der Wandlungsprozesse des 17. Jahrhunderts, ed. Michael Rohrschneider and Anuschka Tiuscher Esther-Beate Koerber
Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age: God’s Word Questioned, ed. Dirk van Miert, Henk Nellen, Piet Steenbakkers and Jetze Touber Timothy Twining
Facing Otherness in Early Modern Sweden: Travel, Migration and Material Transformations, 1500–1800, ed. Magdalena Naum and Fredrik Ekengren Svante Norrhem
Crime and Punishment in Russia: A Comparative History from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin, by Jonathan Daly Siobhan Hearne
Fields, Fens and Felonies: Crime and Justice in Eighteenth-Century East Anglia, by Gregory J. Durston Douglas Hay
Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta, by Debjani Bhattacharyya David Arnold
Thomas Paine: Britain, America, and France in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution, by J.C.D. Clark Tom Cutterham
Granville Sharp’s Uncovered Letter and the Zong Massacre, by Michelle Faubert Trevor Burnard
America in Italy: The United States in the Political Thought and Imagination of the Risorgimento, 1763–1865, by Axel Körner Marcella Pellegrino Sutcliffe
Scotland’s Populations from the 1850s to Today, by Michael Anderson, with mapping by Corinne Roughley Marjory Harper
The Scots in Australia 1788–1938, by Benjamin Wilkie Alex Tyrrell
Liberalism as Utopia: The Rise and Fall of Legal Rule in Post-Colonial Mexico, 1820–1900, by Timo H. Schaefer Edward Beatty
Crime Control and Everyday Life in the Victorian City: The Police and the Public, by David Churchill Heather Shore
Through the Lion Gate: A History of the Berlin Zoo, by Gary Bruce Takashi Ito
Making Prussians, Raising Germans: A Cultural History of Prussian State-Building after Civil War, 1866–1935, by Jasper Heinzen Mark Hewitson
Litigating Across the Color Line: Civil Cases Between Black and White Southerners from the End of Slavery to Civil Rights, by Melissa Milewski Lydia J Plath
The Unknown Gladstone: The Life of Herbert Gladstone 1854–1903, by Kenneth D. Brown kenneth O Morgan
Violence and the German Soldier in the Great War: Killing, Dying, Surviving, by Benjamin Ziemann, tr. Andrew Evans Mark Jones
Learning to Fight: Military Innovation and Change in the British Army, 1914–1918, by Aimée Fox David French
Beyond 1917: The United States and the Global Legacies of the Great War, ed. Thomas W. Zeiler, David K. Ekbladh and Benjamin C. Montoya Michael Cox
Twilight of Empire: The Brest-Litovsk Conference and the Remaking of East Central Europe 1917–18, by Borislav Chernev Charlotte Alston
The Insecurity State: Punjab and the Making of Colonial Power in British India, by Mark Condos Catherine Coombs
Gandhi in Bombay: Towards Swaraj, by Usha Thakkar and Sandhya Mehta Talat Ahmed
The Global History of Organic Farming, by Gregory A. Barton John Paull
The Jewish Revolution in Belorussia: Economy, Race, and Bolshevik Power, by Andrew Sloin Claire Le Foll
Stormtroopers: A New History of Hitler’s Brownshirts, by Daniel Siemens Deborah Barton
Kingsley Wood: Scenes from a Political Life 1925–1943, by Hugh Gault Martin Farr
Dialogue against Violence: The Question of Trentino-South Tyrol in the International Context, ed. Giovanni Bernardini and Günther Pallaver Corinna Peniston-Bird
Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian, by Richard Aldous Gareth Davies
Britain’s Hegemony in Palestine and the Middle East, 1917–1956: Changing Strategic Imperatives, by Michael J. Cohen Guillemette Crouzet
The Twilight of the British Empire: British Intelligence and Counter-Subversion in the Middle East, 1948–63, by Chikara Hashimoto Ryan Shaffer
Brutality in an Age of Human Rights: Activism and Counterinsurgency at the End of the British Empire, by Brian Drohan Edward Burke
‘Tomorrow Belongs to Us’: The British Far Right since 1967, ed. Nigel Copsey and Matthew Worley Roger Eatwell
Managing the Economy, Managing the People: Narratives of Economic Life in Britain from Beveridge to Brexit, by Jim Tomlinson Duncan Needham
International Women’s Year: The Greatest Consciousness-Raising Event in History, by Jocelyn Olcott Eileen Boris
Women’s Activism and ‘Second Wave’ Feminism: Transnational Histories, ed. Barbara Molony and Jennifer Nelson Sue Bruley
Class, Politics, and the Decline of Deference in England, 1968–2000, by Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite Ross McKibbin
Anti-Corruption in History: From Antiquity to the Modern Era, ed. Ronald Kroeze, André Vitória and G. Geltner Ian Cawood
History After Hobsbawm: Writing the Past for the Twenty-First Century, ed. John H. Arnold, Matthew Hilton and Jan Rüger Michael Bentley