Adam Chapman reads this ‘important and valuable’ challenge to ‘the common image (and ignorance) of medieval Wales’.
Review Archives
A Little Gay History of Wales
Kirsti Bohata takes a critical look at a book that will be ‘highly influential within the kaleidoscope of studies—historical, cultural, sociological—which are enriching and complicating our understandings of queer Wales’.
Total recall: complete and remembered lives
Thomas E. Keefe reviews two works that take us through ‘the lives of people incarcerated in camps to the lives of people trapped by mythohistories and competitive victimhood’.
Baldwin I of Jerusalem, 1100–1118
Stephen J. Spencer reviews this meticulously researched biography of an ambitious, pragmatic, conventionally pious, and above all ruthless crusader and king.
Films for the Colonies: Cinema and the Preservation of the British Empire
What role does colonialism play in the history of British cinema – and vice versa? Jennifer Blaylock reviews.
Mr. Smith Goes to China: Three Scots in the Making of Britain’s Global Empire
George Smith, George Smith, and George Smith travel to Asia to make their fortunes. Junqing Wu reviews this intricate study of how their accounts shed new light on the complex relations of British imperialism.
Sweet and Clean? Bodies and Clothes in Early Modern England
Beverly Lemire reviews a radical re-conceptualisation of washed linens and bodies in early modern England.
Women Before the Court: Law and patriarchy in the Anglo-American world, 1600–1800
Women before the court challenges assumptions about women living and litigating in England and North America across the early modern period. Rebecca Mason reviews.
Animal worlds
Sabine Hanke
Caribbean New Orleans: Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society
Matthew Stallard reviews this “defining and comprehensive” microhistory of French New Orleans and its links to the Caribbean.