Press reviews

The Institute of Historical Research has published two new book reviews, taking in three recently released historical works: Loyalism and Radicalism in Lancashire 1798-1815 by Katrina Navickas, Riotous Assemblies: Popular Protest in Hanoverian England by Adrian Randall, and The Civilising Mission and the English Middle Class, 1792-1850: The 'Heathen' at Home and Overseas by Alison […]

The Institute of Historical Research's latest book reviews are of Healthy Living in the Alps: the Origins of Winter Tourism in Switzerland, 1860-1914 by Susan Barton, and Evangelicals in the Royal Navy, 1775-1815: Blue Lights and Psalm-Singers by Richard Blake.   Click here and here for reviews (external link).

The Belgian website Stars à Moto has reimagined the famous painting of Napoleon crossing the Alps by David. Instead of a gleaming white steed, Napoleon is astride a motorbike.   Click here for the silliness (external link in French).

The website expatica.com reports on the Andreas Hofer bicentenary celebrations, including a giant parade involving tens of thousands of people.   Click here for the full article (external link).

Articles:“Wine, friends and royalist popular politics: legitimist associations in mid-nineteenth-century France”, by Bernard Rulof, p. 360 Book reviews:The Bee and the Eagle; Napoleonic France and the End of the Holy Roman Empire, 1806, edited Alan Forrest and Peter H. Wilson, and Soldiers, Citizens and Civilians; Experiences and Perceptions of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1790-1820, edited by […]

Mark Herring, of Winthropp University, on behalf of the Institute of Historical Research, has spent the summer reviewing the various online libraries that are now available to the internet-using public. His reviews cover not only the various search engines and digital libraries on offer, but also the phenomenon (or lack thereof) of “digital texts”, the […]

For our more sartorially-inclined readers, the team behind the Walcheren bicentenary events recently held in Veere have released a t-shirt, available in four different colours and sizes, to mark the occasion.  Click here for more information and buying information (external link).

This summer in Corunna (Spain), four new roads were named after moments or events in French history. Visitors to the city can now walk down streets named after “Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité”, “Révolution Française”, “l'Encyclopédie Française” and “Napoléon Bonaparte”.

The BBC website (UK) reports on the growing row over the lengths gone to by Sarkozy's aides in order to hide his “short” stature. Included in the article is a graphic comparing the heights of the various World leaders as well as that of Napoleon Bonaparte.   Click here for the article (external link).

The Institute of Historical Research's latest book review is of The Domination of Strangers: Modern Governance in Eastern India, 1780-1835 by Jon Wilson. The review is by Philip Stern of Duke University.   Click here for the review, plus the author's response (external link).