August 4, 2021
Brian Cowan is a Professor of History at McGill University. Scott Sowerby is an Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University. As they write here, although the term “state trial”… READ MORE
July 28, 2021
Here the editors of this detailed look at the role of clerics during a turbulent period tell us about how they chose to represent the clergy of the time and… READ MORE
July 5, 2021
Far from the romanticised image of the swashbuckling genre of maritime history, the eighteenth-century Caribbean was a ‘marchlands’ in which violence was a way of life and where solidarities were… READ MORE
June 23, 2021
Julie Farguson is College Lecturer in History at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. Here she tells us about her new book, a discussion of how, at a crucial point in British… READ MORE
June 11, 2021
The latest in our History of British Intelligence series State Surveillance, Political Policing and Counter-Terrorism in Britain explores how the state worked to identify, track and counter a varied array… READ MORE
June 9, 2021
Dr Lloyd Bowen introduces us his new book, a fascinating look at an infamous duel which took place in Highgate in 1610. But was it a fair duel, fought according… READ MORE
June 7, 2021
“A most un-Victorian Victorian” is Joanna Martin’s wonderfully apt description of Georgina Weldon. Fearless, clever, independent and talented – also eccentric, delusional and highly litigious – Georgina Weldon seemed to… READ MORE
May 24, 2021
Dr David Wilson’s keenly-awaited and thoroughly absorbing new book examines how the British empire sought to blunt the very real threat of piracy. But the empire could not act as… READ MORE
May 12, 2021
Dr Esther Sahle’s new book is the latest in the People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History series that we publish with the Economic History Society. These are paperback… READ MORE
May 5, 2021
Dr John Appleby reveals the inspiration behind his new book and the links between the woodlands of Chesapeake, European traders, Native American hunters, and London’s most fashionable dressers. I have… READ MORE
The State Trials and the Politics of Justice in Later Stuart England
