Search
![](https://reviews.history.ac.uk/sites/reviews/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/stouta.jpg?itok=cIS6CF7T)
Two books on druids in two years, and by the same author! If I were either of Ronald Hutton’s publishers I’d be biting my nails over this, but let me reassure them both right at the start that Hutton pulls it off, and in style. The two really do complement each other. So what does Blood and Mistletoe have that The Druids: A History (1) does not?
![](https://reviews.history.ac.uk/sites/reviews/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/collinsm.jpg?itok=dxG8LwrQ)
As the title of the book suggests, Geographies of Empire covers the period roughly from the beginning of the ‘scramble for Africa’ – following the British invasion of Egypt in 1882 – to the year by which many of the territories formerly acquired by European colonial powers had been lost or given up.
![](https://reviews.history.ac.uk/sites/reviews/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/Butel_Atlantic.jpg?itok=5z2F-8sa)
'From the Sea of Perpetual Gloom to the Holiday Cruise'
![](https://reviews.history.ac.uk/sites/reviews/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/clarkson.jpg?itok=Lxwclf5K)
Clarkson's and Crawford's research at the Centre for Social Research and in this book builds on Kenneth H. Connell's pioneering studies of population and of Irish diet.
![](https://reviews.history.ac.uk/sites/reviews/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/hessayona_0.jpg?itok=lQ5dziZR)
The cover to the hardback edition of Edward Vallance’s A Radical History of Britain shows a Union Jack superimposed on a montage (King John signing the Magna Carta, the German Peasants’ War of 1525 (1), the Women’s Suffrage Movement, the Jarrow Crusade and the Battle of Cable Street) designed to illustrate the book’s subtitle: Visionaries, Rebels and Revol
![](https://reviews.history.ac.uk/sites/reviews/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/haydockw.jpg?itok=DNsbSSF_)
In Britain today, alcohol is a topic of concern to the government, media, and academics alike. The papers tell of ‘Binge Britain’, and academics inform us that there is a new kind of drinking and intoxication that attracts young people to our city centres.
![](https://reviews.history.ac.uk/sites/reviews/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/richardse.jpg?itok=PDlLfkiJ)
Breakfasting in bed, Maynard Keynes recalled the immense scope of the laissez-faire world of the Pax Britannica at its zenith in the summer of 1914. ‘The inhabitant of London could order by telephone, sipping his tea … the various products of the whole earth, in such quantities as he might see fit, and reasonably expect their early delivery at his doorstep; he could ...
![](https://reviews.history.ac.uk/sites/reviews/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/grayd.jpg?itok=ZB9cdJeq)
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey have only been available to historians online since 2003 but, speaking as someone who probably visits the site two or three times a week, I am bound to wonder at how we all managed before then.
![](https://reviews.history.ac.uk/sites/reviews/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/epe1.jpg?itok=VcNTrrTa)
In February 2005 the Heritage Lottery Fund awarded over £3 million to the Victoria County History (VCH) – the high priest of England’s local history – to establish an ambitious new local history project, England’s Past for Everyone (EPE).
![](https://reviews.history.ac.uk/sites/reviews/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/whithamc.jpg?itok=JYBaA3r9)
This is a digitised, full-text searchable collection of the Foreign and Colonial Offices’ entire Confidential Print series relating to North America (Canada, Caribbean and the USA) for the period 1824–1961, an initial batch launched by The National Archives (TNA) with Archives Direct and Adam Matthew Dig