Search
![](https://reviews.history.ac.uk/sites/reviews/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/monod.jpg?itok=q2j1FNZF)
This important work provides the first informed, well-researched and highly nuanced account of the fortunes of ‘occult’ thought and practice in England from the middle decades of the 17th century to its demise at the end of the 18th century.
![](https://reviews.history.ac.uk/sites/reviews/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/trigg.jpg?itok=IchQwzX4)
The Order of the Garter has enjoyed a continuous existence since King Edward III founded it in the late 1340s, and membership remains the highest honour an English sovereign can bestow.
A History of the French in London: Liberty, Equality, Opportunity / eds. Martyn Cornick, Debra Kelly
![](https://reviews.history.ac.uk/sites/reviews/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/cornick.jpg?itok=a8NBoKB2)
What a great idea! The only wonder is why no publishing house thought of commissioning a book on the topic before. The reader’s delight starts straight from looking at the cover illustration – a ‘translation’ of Harry Beck’s celebrated London Tube Map, in which Waterloo Station becomes Gare de Napoléon.
![](https://reviews.history.ac.uk/sites/reviews/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/herbert.jpg?itok=uF7k_y_e)
Amanda E. Herbert’s fresh and important study of women’s alliances in early modern Britain opens with a quotation from Mary Evelyn listing the duties of elite women in the late 17th century. Reading as follows: ‘the care of children’s education, observing a husband’s commands, assisting the sick, relieving the poor, and being serviceable to our friends’ (p. 1).
![](https://reviews.history.ac.uk/sites/reviews/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/ward.jpg?itok=6ZcFLKPY)
Cultural conflict, religious reform, social change and commercial growth all simultaneously proliferated in early modern England, a development that has inspired more than a century of heated scholarly debate.
![](https://reviews.history.ac.uk/sites/reviews/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/pennell.jpg?itok=cGFY0itz)
Reading and Writing Recipe Books, 1550–1800 includes 11 rigorously documented essays addressing a genre that began to attract attention following Susan Leonardi’s 1989 article, ‘Recipes for reading: Summer pasta, lobster a la Riseholme, and Key Lime Pie’.(1) The editors, Michelle DiMeo and Sarah Pennell, seek to demonstrate how far the study of medical/culinar
![](https://reviews.history.ac.uk/sites/reviews/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/Awood.jpg?itok=-DRJYsUv)
Historians, unsurprisingly, spend much of their time thinking about how people make sense of the past.
![](https://reviews.history.ac.uk/sites/reviews/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/herbert.jpg?itok=uF7k_y_e)
In the latest of our occasional Reviews in History podcast series, Jordan Landes talks to Amanda Herbert about her new book, Female Alliances: Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain.
Amanda Herbert is assistant professor of history at Christopher Newport University.
![](https://reviews.history.ac.uk/sites/reviews/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/dickens.jpg?itok=USbO2Q_j)
In the latest of our occasional Reviews in History podcast series, Daniel Snowman talks to Claire Tomalin about her work as a historical biographer.
Claire Tomalin (born Claire Delavenay on 20 June 1933) is an English author and journalist, known for her biographies on Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Pepys, Jane Austen, and Mary Wollstonecraft.
![](https://reviews.history.ac.uk/sites/reviews/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/chaney.jpg?itok=cAmcQObe)
This is a self-consciously old-fashioned treatment of an unaccountably neglected chapter in the history of travel which should be placed alongside such classics as John Stoye’s English Travelers Abroad, 1604–1667, whose first edition was published as long ago as 1952, rather than more recent treatments by Chloe Chard and Rosemary Sweet.(1) Indeed, one might go