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The Crimean War and its Afterlife: Making Modern Britain / Lara Kriegel

Friday, 4 November, 2022

Petros Spanou reviews an 'illuminating' look at the astonishing reverberations of the Crimean War in British society and culture.

Authority and Power in the Medieval Church, c. 1000–c. 1500 / ed. Thomas W. Smith

Friday, 21 October, 2022

Agata Zielinska reviews this 'indispensable' collection of essays tackling one of the most profound aspects of Medieval Church history.

Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871-1918 / Katja Hoyer

Friday, 7 October, 2022

Joseph Cronin questions Katja Hoyer's "lucid and compelling" focus on the positive legacies of the Kaiserreich.

Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching / Jarvis R. Givens

Friday, 23 September, 2022

Thomas Cryer reviews a look at Black education in America, the sociology of knowledge, and broader histories of resistance to educational domination.

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