Reviews

The ‘Nazi who said sorry’ was a master of constructing his own narrative.

A subtly nuanced picture of European Roma.

Were the fifties a dull decade? Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s by Virginia Nicholson has the answer.

Nigel Saul marks the 800th anniversary of the sealing of Magna Carta with a comprehensive overview of the landmark books that dominate the field.

The importance to historians and anthropologists of Keith Thomas’s Religion and the Decline of Magic, ten years after its first publication. 

A.J. Stockwell reviews a new collection of writings by Wm. Roger Louis.

A celebratory history which challenges cultural stereotypes and fashionable academic assumptions.