New article on Open Access! Noah Millstone on 'Bishop Williams among the Puritans, 1621–1640' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

New article! Stefan G. Holz on 'Innovative Accounting at the Exchequer and Wardrobe, c.1300: The Jornalia Bills, Books and Rolls under Edward I and Edward II' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... #medieval

Peter J. Marshall (1933-2025) and the Royal Historical Society: an appreciation bit.ly/4mSADyn We are very grateful to @petermandler.bsky.social for his reflections on Peter Marshall, former President of the Society (1996-2000), which are published today on the RHS blog #Skystorians

From the Carolingians to the Northern Ireland Peace Process, from Yorkshire to the Middle East and beyond, from civil war to cricket to the agency of cattle, EHR is open to the full range of historical inquiry. academic.oup.com/ehr/issue

Our June/August issue is out, in paper and here: academic.oup.com/ehr/issue

New article on Advance Access: Matthias Berlandi, 'Market Positioning over Productivity: Rethinking England’s Eighteenth-Century Grain Export Boom' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

New article on Advance Access: Dmitry Sterkhov 'With God against Napoleon: Military Mobilisation and Patriotic Preaching in Prussia during the Spring Campaign of 1813' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

New article on advance access: Matthias Berlandi @uni-goettingen.de on 'Market Positioning over Productivity: Rethinking England’s Eighteenth-Century Grain Export Boom' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

We note with regret the passing of Frank O’Gorman.

New in Reflections! Hugh Doherty and Roy Flechner on 'Richard Sharpe (1954–2020)' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

New article! Ingrid Rembold on 'Widows, Orphans and Churches: Protection and Virtue Signalling in the Carolingian World' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @uomhums.bsky.social

New article! Jeremy Fradkin @jfradkin.bsky.social on 'Toleration and the Sword in the English Civil War' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

New article! Eilish Gregory @eilishgregory.bsky.social, "‘Published by Her Majesties Command’: Sermons Preached before Catherine of Braganza, Queen Dowager, 1685–88" academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @durhamhistory.bsky.social

A very interesting new article out in @enghistrev.bsky.social from Ingrid Rembold on the discourse around orphans, widows and protection in the Carolingian World. academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

The IHR is saddened by the death of Peter (P.J.) Marshall, historian of the British Empire, and a long-standing member of King's College London's History department. As a long-time friend, supporter, and Fellow of the IHR, he will be greatly missed and remembered for his kindness and courtesy.

'One can only marvel at the stoicism it must have taken on the part of the author to write about these cases... I cannot recall when I last read a work of academic history that made me want to reach into the text and hold the hand of a protagonist. I did on this occasion.' @enghistrev.bsky.social

Katharine Robadiek reviews 'Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy: The Virtuous Republic of Francesco Patrizi of Siena', By James Hankins academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @harvardpress.bsky.social

Carol Symes reviews 'Death and Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern World: Perspectives from the Mediterranean and Beyond', ed. Lori Jones and Nükhet Varlık academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social

New article on advance access: Di Lu on 'From Dung to Food: Mushroom Cultivation in Eighteenth-Century Britain' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

New selection of Open Access reviews in our Spotlight today! From Egypt to Japan, Mexico to the streets of London, from the early medieval to the contemporary, we aim to cover all periods and places. Article submissions in all areas also very welcome! academic.oup.com/ehr/pages/sp...

Our April issue is online! From Whitby to Nairobi, from the 12th to the 20th century, find some summer reading here! Also a full range of book reviews. Read it here: academic.oup.com/ehr/issue/14...

As I was packing up my books for an impending move, I came across this beauty and remembered that I recently wrote a review of it for @enghistrev.bsky.social. Please do take a look! drjohannastrong.ca/2025/04/26/r... #MaryI #Tudors #monarchy #queenship #royalstudies @royalstudies.bsky.social

And with the English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social, the Rivista storica italiana, the Czech Historical Review and the Historische Zeitschrift. We will ask what makes for a „flagship“ journal, if we need them, how powerful they are and whether the above are actually ones.

Call for Papers, please share! “Power Couples? Collaborations at work and at home, c.1750-1914” workshop to be held at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany 11-13 May 2026. Deadline for expression of interest 1 Sep 2025. Please see more info in the attached & email me if any questions.

New article on open access! James Davey on 'The Birth of Naval History: Audience and Objectivity in British Eighteenth-Century Historical Writing' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

New article on advance access! Charlton W Yingling and Andrew Kettler on 'Cattle, Chattel, and Capital: Animal Agency and the Alimentary Atlantic' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

New article on open access! James Davey on 'The Birth of Naval History: Audience and Objectivity in British Eighteenth-Century Historical Writing' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

New article on advance access! Charlton W Yingling and Andrew Kettler on 'Cattle, Chattel, and Capital: Animal Agency and the Alimentary Atlantic' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

We also have a selection of reviews from our December issue on Open Access, here: academic.oup.com/ehr/pages/sp...

David Grummitt @davidgrummitt.bsky.social reviews 'Henry VIII, the Duke of Albany and the Anglo-Scottish War of 1522–24', By Neil Murphy academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social

Daniel Hershenzon reviews 'Frontier Narratives: Liminal Lives in the Early Modern Mediterranean', by Steven Hutchinson academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @manchesterup.bsky.social

Sophie Page reviews 'Onomantic Divination in Late Medieval Britain: Questioning Life, Predicting Death', by Joanne Edge @hagenilda.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social

Benjamin Pohl reviews 'The Pigments of British Medieval Illuminators: A Scientific and Cultural Study', by Richard Gameson, Andrew Beeby, Flavia Fiorillo, Catherine Nicholson, Paola Ricciardi , Suzanne Reynolds, Mila Crippa, Anna Mazzinghi, Lucia Pereira-Pardo academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

Benedict Wiedemann reviews 'The Power of Protocol: Diplomatics and the Dynamics of Papal Government, c.400–c.1600', by D.L. d’Avray academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @universitypress.cambridge.org

Matthew Salisbury reviews Bible Missals and the Medieval Dominican Liturgy, by Innocent Smith, OP academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

Thank you @farinamir.bsky.social for a generous and perceptive review of Scripts of Power!

"This is an extremely valuable contribution to the study of early medieval agriculture and an important landmark for the FeedSax project." New Perspectives on the Medieval ‘Agricultural Revolution’ is available #OpenAccess on the LUP website: bit.ly/4e1FlXa @clarelitt.bsky.social #MedievalSky

Giora Goodman reviews 'Anti-Communism in Britain during the Early Cold War: A Very British Witch Hunt', by Matthew Gerth academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @uolpress.bsky.social

Aleks Pluskowski reviews 'New Perspectives on the Medieval ‘Agricultural Revolution’: Crop, Stock and Furrow', ed. Mark McKerracher and Helena Hamerow academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @livunipress.bsky.social

Seymour Phillips reviews 'Pouvoir et solidarités d’une famille seigneuriale: Le ‘Parentat’ Lusignan entre France, Îles Britanniques et Orient latin (Xe–XIVe siècles)', by Clément de Vasselot de Régné academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @brepols.net

Nicholas Karn @nicholaskarn.bsky.social reviews 'The Materiality of Medieval Administration in Northern England', by Abigail S. Armstrong @medievalabby.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @brepols.net

Farina Mir @farinamir.bsky.social reviews 'Scripts of Power: Writing, Language Practices, and Cultural History in Western India', by Prachi Deshpande @prarochana.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

David d'Avray reviews 'Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History', by Peter Brown academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @princetonupress.bsky.social

David Lines reviews 'Teaching Plato in Italian Renaissance Universities', ed. Eva Del Soldato and Maude Vanhaelen academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @brepols.net

George Southcombe reviews 'Contesting the English Polity, 1660–1688: Religion, Politics, and Ideas', by Mark Goldie academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social

Elizabeth Tapscott reviews 'Rethinking the Renaissance and Reformation in Scotland: Essays in Honour of Roger A. Mason', ed. Steven J. Reid academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social

Sarah Ansari reviews 'Sindh under the Mughals: Origin and Development of Historiography (1591–1737 CE)', by Humera Naz academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

David L Smith reviews 'Oliver Cromwell: Commander in Chief', by Ronald Hutton academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @yalebooks.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social

Catriona Macdonald reviews 'Sex and Violence in 1920s Scotland: Incest, Rape, Lewd and Libidinous Practices, 1918–1930', by Louise Heren academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social

Emily J Ward reviews 'Frères et sœurs dans l’Europe du haut Moyen Âge (vers 650–vers 1000)', by Justine Audebrand academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @brepols.net