New Books

History runs a range of features in support of new publications across a range of fields. The most recent blogs and interviews on new books are shown below, but you can browse the full category, search by subject, or use the search function at the bottom of the page for more.

If you are interested in contributing a post to support your new publication, this could appear either as an ‘original’ or in our ‘Critical Spaces’ series, in the format of an overview of your research, an author interview, or methodological piece. Please consult our submission guidelines before sending over your pitch or post.

In March 2021, we will take our attention to new publications to the next level with the launch of our new podcast series History: New Books. Aiming to make new publications accessible and interesting to all disciplines and research backgrounds, each episode will feature an interview between historians about their new work.

Recent Posts:

• John Stearne’s Confirmation and discovery of witchcraft
  New Book Interview: Scott Eaton, John Stearne’s Confirmation and Discovery of Witchcraft: Text, Context and Afterlife (Routledge, 2020). History: How did this project develop? Where did your interest in the subject originate? Scott: My interest in the history of witchcraft started during my BA at Ulster University when I took a module on… Read more: John Stearne’s Confirmation and discovery of witchcraft
• Reading Russian Sources
  George Gilbert Reading Russian Sources: creating a new edited collection When I was tasked with editing the collection Reading Russian Sources for Routledge, one of the first questions that came to mind – and the spirit I will be approaching this blog post with – is, in our current research environment that… Read more: Reading Russian Sources
• Print Culture and the Formation of the Anarchist Movement in Spain, 1890-1915
  …or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the book… James Michael Yeoman This is the second of a two-part discussion, which explores the creation and contents of my book, Print Culture and the Formation of the Anarchist Movement in Spain, 1890-1915, which was published last autumn. In part… Read more: Print Culture and the Formation of the Anarchist Movement in Spain, 1890-1915
• Print Culture and the Formation of the Anarchist Movement in Spain, 1890-1915
  …or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the book… James Michael Yeoman This is the first of a two-part discussion which explores the creation and contents of my book, Print Culture and the Formation of the Anarchist Movement in Spain, which was published last autumn. While the second… Read more: Print Culture and the Formation of the Anarchist Movement in Spain, 1890-1915
• Lucy Jane Santos’ ‘Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium’
  Lucy Jane Santos In the late 19th century that Wilhelm Röntgen discovered a previously unknown form of powerful radiation that was invisible to the human eye. This type of ray, which no one (including Röntgen) fully understood at the time, was so mysterious that he simply named it ‘X’. In… Read more: Lucy Jane Santos’ ‘Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium’
• Do Mention the War: Discourses of Sacrifice and Obligation in White Rhodesian Society, 1964-1965
  David Kenrick. Contemporary political discourse in Britain is saturated by sepia-tinged memorialisation of the Second World War. Parties across the country’s growing political divide invoke slogans and imagery redolent of the ‘blitz spirit’ or ‘going it alone’. Far from being a recent development, politicians have long sought to use these… Read more: Do Mention the War: Discourses of Sacrifice and Obligation in White Rhodesian Society, 1964-1965
• Mo Moulton’s ‘Mutual Admiration Society’: How Dorothy L. Sayers and her Oxford circle remade the world for women
  Mo Moulton. In 1912, Dorothy L. Sayers and five friends founded a writing group at Somerville College, Oxford; they dubbed themselves the ‘Mutual Admiration Society.’ Barred, initially, from receiving their degrees despite taking classes and passing exams, the women battled for a truly democratic culture that acknowledged their equal humanity,… Read more: Mo Moulton’s ‘Mutual Admiration Society’: How Dorothy L. Sayers and her Oxford circle remade the world for women
• Running Tudor England’s Second City: The Accounts of the Chamberlains of Norwich, 1539-45
  All information cited in the body of this text are taken from Rawcliffe, C, The Norwich Chamberlains Accounts 1539-40 to 1544-45. vol. 83, Norfolk Records Society, (Norwich, 2019). Please consult this volume if you wish to follow up and reference anything below.  Carole Rawcliffe. Accounts are an important source of… Read more: Running Tudor England’s Second City: The Accounts of the Chamberlains of Norwich, 1539-45
• Redefining the ‘Born’ Murderer: Lombrosian Legacies in Early Soviet Criminological Discourse.
  Mark Vincent. The 1876 publication of Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso’s L’uomo delinquent (‘Criminal Man’) caused quite a stir amongst professionals in late Imperial Russia, in addition to the field of Western social scientists. Whilst some elements of Lombrosian thought, such as inherited criminal impulses, a link between moral and physical deformity, and… Read more: Redefining the ‘Born’ Murderer: Lombrosian Legacies in Early Soviet Criminological Discourse.

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