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
November 29, 2021
In her fascinating new book, Catherine Rice shows how vitally significant their gardens were to the living standards and social standing of the workers who tended them. As revealed here,… READ MORE
November 4, 2021
Early modern historians can usually only dream of their work becoming relevant, their meanderings in the faraway lives and ideas of the past suddenly popping up as current affairs. Royalism, Religion… READ MORE
October 25, 2021
Agriculture carries with it the impression of tradition, knowledge and skills as old as the land itself. But in order for farmers to meet our needs, agriculture has always had… READ MORE
October 18, 2021
Just as their collection does in the year of his 70th birthday, the editors of Contesting Orthodoxies pay tribute to Diarmaid MacCulloch and the example he has set in his teaching and writing. … READ MORE
The Great Vogue for the Guitar in Western Europe, 1800-1840