June 8, 2022
When Pirates became media sensations In April 1828, the pirate attack on the brig Morning Star became the first truly global pirate story. Of course, back then there was no… READ MORE
June 7, 2022
A woman’s bargain with pirates Anne Logie remained calm as she faced the young French pirate Victor St Cyr Barbazan. He and the other pirates of the Defensor de Pedro… READ MORE
May 23, 2022
The Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh explores how the making of Edinburgh as an influential Enlightenment capital depended on a series of spatial processes that extended across urban, regional, national and… READ MORE
May 12, 2022
Popular memory of the Scottish Covenanters, to the extent they are remembered at all, tends to feature them as either intolerant, violent religious fanatics, or focuses on their persecution during… READ MORE
May 10, 2022
Zarina Burkadze’s new book, published by the University of Rochester in their Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe series, is a powerfully insightful study of the challenges faced by… READ MORE
May 6, 2022
Dr Williams’s Trust and Library, edited by Alan Argent, derives from the will of the nonconformist minister Daniel Williams (c.1643-1716), revealing rare examples of private philanthropy and dissenting enterprise. Early… READ MORE
April 14, 2022
With the recent publication of Red Road to Freedom, I became intrigued by secret parties, patriotic unity, and great power competition. I asked myself ‘where have other red roads led’?… READ MORE
March 14, 2022
Benjamin W. D. Redding’s new book is a unique comparative study of English and French naval history that examines the birth of modern state navies during a period of significant… READ MORE
March 4, 2022
We are delighted to publish Harry Potter’s third Boydell book and for it to be the first biography of one of the greatest penal reformers of the twentieth century is… READ MORE
February 24, 2022
New from the Devon and Cornwall Record Society, James Davidson’s East Devon Church Notes, edited by Jill Cobley, sheds light on the history of East Devon’s churches from the Middle… READ MORE
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