Our December issue also contains a full range of book reviews - browse them here: academic.oup.com/ehr/issue?lo...

December Issue: Marcus Colla, 'Back to Babel: New Studies on Esperanto, Internationalism and Global Languages in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries' academic.oup.com/ehr/article/...

In our December Issue: James Moore on 'The Alexandria Corniche Scandal: Colonial Urban Government and the Limits of British Power in Egypt, 1932–36' academic.oup.com/ehr/article-...

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

December Issue: Ella Sbaraini @ellasbaraini.bsky.social on 'Everyday Giving: Food, Emotions and Community in England, 1760–1850' academic.oup.com/ehr/article/... @kingshistory.bsky.social

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

In our December Issue: Jeremy Fradkin on 'Toleration and the Sword in the English Civil War' academic.oup.com/ehr/article-...

December Issue: Alexandra Walsham on 'Heirloom Books: Family Memory, Genealogy, and English Archives, c.1450–1850' academic.oup.com/ehr/article/... @emodcam.bsky.social

In our December issue: Richard Purkiss @richardpurkiss.bsky.social on 'The Limits of the Danelaw' academic.oup.com/ehr/article/... @uomhistdept.bsky.social

Our full issues are catching up with our online publications! December 2025 issue now available here: academic.oup.com/ehr/issue

Job vacancy: We are looking for an Acquisitions Editor in Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Apply now! de-gruyter.onlyfy.jobs/job/3dhjdvo3... #medievalsky #earlymodern

“Stock market advice came to shape a new kind of ideal citizen, for whom risk was ­individualized, the future turned into a revenue stream, and the self into an ­entrepreneurial project.”

New article on advance access: Robert M Hendershot and Steve Marsh on 'Britain’s "Big Gun’" Queen Elizabeth II and the Anglo-American Special Relationship' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

What a nice thing to see! This volume was part of a major campus event at the University of Tennessee that got wrecked by COVID. It was a beautiful vision. youtu.be/Ls2Mbnxqy7U?...

Susannah Heschel reviews 'Christianity in Hitler’s Ideology: The Role of Jesus in National Socialism', by Mikael Nilsson academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @universitypress.cambridge.org

Frances Courtney Kneupper reviews 'Apocalyptic Cultures in Medieval and Renaissance Europe: Politics and Prophecy', ed. Jay Rubenstein @medievaljay.bsky.social and Robert Bast academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @brepols.net

Kevin McCranie reviews 'The Board of Longitude: Science, Innovation and Empire', by Alexi Baker, Richard Dunn, Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social Simon Schaffer and Sophie Waring @atinybitwaring.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @universitypress.cambridge.org

Judith Giesberg @jgiesber.bsky.social reviews 'Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War', by Edda L. Fields-Black academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @academic.oup.com

New article on advance access: Robert M Hendershot and Steve Marsh on 'Britain’s "Big Gun’" Queen Elizabeth II and the Anglo-American Special Relationship' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

Please share! EHR is hosting a free one-day symposium at St John's College, Oxford, on Friday 17 April, 10-6, on the theme 'When there are no sources'. Further details and how to sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-there...

Please share! EHR is hosting a free one-day symposium at St John's College, Oxford, on Friday 17 April, 10-6, on the theme 'When there are no sources'. Further details and how to sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-there...

News! EHR is hosting a free one-day symposium at St John's College, Oxford, on Friday 17 April, 10-6, on the theme 'When there are no sources'. Further details and how to sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-there...

News! EHR is hosting a free one-day symposium at St John's College, Oxford, on Friday 17 April, 10-6, on the theme 'When there are no sources'. Further details and how to sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-there...

New article! Diarmaid Kelliher @diarmaidkelliher.bsky.social on 'Thatcherism and the Picket Line' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

New article in English Historical Review (@enghistrev.bsky.social) on 'Thatcherism & the Picket Line'. Looks at relationship between picketing & Conservatives esp. in 1980s, but also the legacy into the 1990s. Of relevance, I think, to upcoming Orgreave inquiry. academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

We are sorry to learn of the death of Norman L. Jones (1951-2026), historian of Elizabeth England and professor at Utah State University. Professor Jones was elected a Fellow of the Society in 1996 and won the RHS book prize in 1982. For an @thenacbs.bsky.social obituary, please see bit.ly/3MQ0AC9

Emily Van Buskirk reviews 'Beyond the Siege of Leningrad: One Woman’s Life during and after the Occupation. The Recollections of Evdokiia Vasil’evna Baskakova-Bogacheva', ed. Oleg Beyda and Pavel Gavrilov academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @ceu-press.bsky.social

Annemarie Sammartino reviews 'Between Borders: The Great Jewish Migration from Eastern Europe', by Tobias Brinkmann academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @academic.oup.com

Lucia Luna-Victoria Indacochea @lucialvi.bsky.social reviews 'The Shining Path in Huancavelica, Peru: Conflict and Legacy of Exclusion', by Nicholas A. Robins academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @dgb-history.bsky.social @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

Ricky W Law reviews 'The Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti-Colonialism: Knowledge Providers and Propagandists in the "Third Reich’", by Baijayanti Roy @baijayanti.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @academic.oup.com

Camilla Townsend reviews 'The Codex Borbonicus Veintena Imagery: Visualizing History, Time, and Ritual in Aztec Solar-Year Festivals', by Catherine R. DiCesare academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @amsterdamupress.bsky.social @routledgehistory.bsky.social

Kesavan Veluthat reviews 'Minor Majesties: The Paḻuvēṭṭaraiyars and Their South Indian Kingdom of Paḻuvūr, 9th–11th Centuries A.D.', by Valérie Gillet academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @academic.oup.com

Rachel Baron-Bloch reviews 'The 1840 Rhodes Blood Libel: Ottoman Jews at the Dawn of the Tanzimat Era', by Olga Borovaya academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @berghahnbooks.bsky.social

Alex Mayhew @alexmayhew.bsky.social reviews The British Home Front and the First World War, ed. Hew Strachan academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @universitypress.cambridge.org

Nathaniel Mathews reviews 'The Winds of History: Life in a Corner of Rural Africa since the Nineteenth Century', by Andreas Zeman academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @dgb-history.bsky.social

Luke A.L. Reynolds @lureynol.bsky.social reviews 'Napoleon in British Culture, c.1815–1840', by James Gregory academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social

Ezequiel Borgognoni reviews 'Early Modern Women’s Mobility, Authority, and Agency Across the Spanish Empire', ed. Anne J. Cruz and Alejandra Franganillo Álvarez academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @amsterdamupress.bsky.social @routledgehistory.bsky.social

Laura Ugolini reviews 'National Service Life Stories: Masculinity, Class, and the Memory of Conscription in Britain', by Peter Gurney, Matthew Grant @mgrnt.bsky.social and Joel Morley @joelmorley.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @academic.oup.com

Bethan Winter reviews 'Poland and European East–West Cooperation in the 1970s: The Opening Up', by Aleksandra Komornicka @olakom.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @routledgehistory.bsky.social

Emily Joan Ward reviews Death and the Royal Succession in Scotland, c.1214–c.1543: Ritual, Ceremony and Power, by Lucinda H.S. Dean academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social

Kristjan Toomaspoeg reviews 'The Teutonic Knights: Rise and Fall of a Religious Corporation', by Aleksander Pluskowski academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

Nora Berend reviews 'Power in Numbers: State Formation and Christianization on the Eastern Edge of Europe', ed. Mária Vargha and Ivo Štefan academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @brepols.net @camedieval.bsky.social

Do browse our latest content on advance access, here: academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

Very pleased to see this out in the wild - first fruits of my new project looking at the influence of English reformations on religious change elsewhere throughout early modern Europe

Thank you Nicoletta Gullace for this close - and positive - review of my book. '... it adds greatly to the military history of morale during the First World War, offering new insights into Englishness, subjecthood and ... belief systems ...' Available online now for £29.99, or £26-28 on Amazon!

Martin Daunton on 'Invested: How Three Centuries of Stock Market Advice Reshaped Our Money, Markets & Minds', by Paul Crosthwaite, Peter Knight @beetroot.bsky.social, Nicky Marsh, Helen Paul @helenjuliapaul.bsky.social and James Taylor academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @uchicagopress.bsky.social

Nicoletta Gullace reviews 'Making Sense of the Great War: Crisis, Englishness, and Morale on the Western Front', by Alex Mayhew @alexmayhew.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @universitypress.cambridge.org

Ashley Brown @ashleyb2711.bsky.social reviews 'Premodern Masculinities in Transition', ed. Konrad Eisenbichler and Jacqueline Murray @jacquelinemurray.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social

Ryan Hanley reviews 'Nobility and the Making of Race in Eighteenth-Century Britain', by Tim McInerney academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social

Nigel Saul reviews 'Heraldry in Urban Society: Visual Culture and Communication in Late Medieval England and Germany', by Marcus Meer @marcusmeer.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @academic.oup.com