Reviews
Religion and the Decline of Magic
The importance to historians and anthropologists of Keith Thomas’s Religion and the Decline of Magic, ten years after its first publication.
Ends of British Imperialism
A.J. Stockwell reviews a new collection of writings by Wm. Roger Louis.
The Intellectual Life of the British Working Class
A celebratory history which challenges cultural stereotypes and fashionable academic assumptions.
Mourning Dress, a costume and social history
A lively study of a potentially dispiriting subject.