The English Historical Review articles from February 1995

The English Historical Review archives from February 1995

Denys Hay (1915-94). (Italian Renaissance historian) (Obituary)
February 1, 1995... Denys Hay, who joined Goronwy Edwards as Editor in 1958, to take over alone in 1959 and finally hand the editorship to Michael Wallace-Hadrill in 1965, was the first Editor since Mandell Creighton who could be described as principally an Italian...

The Huns and the end of the Roman Empire in Western Europe.
February 1, 1995... 458. 1. Eunapius, ed. Blockley, fr. 42; cf. AM, 31. 2. 1-12; Zosimus, 4.20. 3 ff.; Jordanes, Getica 24. 123-8, ed. Th. Mommsen, vol. vi. 1 (MGH, AA, Berlin, 1882), Eng. trans. C. Mierow (Chicago, 1915). Secondary accounts: e.g....

Vulgar conservatism, 1792-3. (UK)
February 1, 1995... fos. [49.sup.r]-[50.sup.r]; 16928, fos. [22.sup.r]-[5.sup.r]. It should be remembered that Reeves himself broached the 'ultra' line in 1795 and found his patrons disowning him when he published a libel on the constitution. See David Eastwood,...

Refusing to pay the price: British foreign policy and the pursuit of victory in Vietnam, 1952-4.
February 1, 1995... In his memoirs, Anthony Eden offered some words of advice to anyone studying British foreign policy, and his own performance as Foreign Secretary, during Winston Churchill's 1951-5 Conservative administration. 'It will be remembered', he wrote,...

The Historia Croylandensis: a plea for reassessment.
February 1, 1995... The Historia Croylandensis cannot be compared to the Hitler Diaries, but to the medieval historian it is a famous and infamous forgery. Various texts are known. The fragmentary B[ritish] L[ibrary] Cotton MS Otho B xiij, a fifteenth-century work,...

The politics of 'Gorboduc.' (tragic English play)
February 1, 1995... During the Christmas period 1561-2, Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton's tragedy Gorboduc was performed in the Inner Temple in London as part of the Inns of Court seasonal revels. Less than a month later, on 18 January 1561, the same play, with...

India and the personal finances of Philip Francis. (Bengal Supreme Council official from October 1774 to December 1780)
February 1, 1995... As to Mr. Francis, circumstanced and situated in life as he was, ten thousand pounds per annum was worth going any where for.(1) It was notorious among many of his trustworthy contemporaries, that he [Philip Francis] returned from India...

History of the Canadian Peoples, 2 vols.
February 1, 1995... For a time in the 1980s, it seemmed as if nobody would ever again agagin attempgeneral textbook on Canadian history. It was not clear where Canada itself was going, which made it impossible for textbook-writers to say whether it had arrived at...

Auguste Comte, vol. 1, An Intellectual Biography.
February 1, 1995... It is over fifty years since Henry Gouhier completed what must be one of the most massive works ever to be devoted simply to anyone's youth - La Jeunesse d'Auguste Comte. Its three volumes provide a compendious account of the early influences on...

Die Protokolle des Gemeinsamen Ministerrates der osterreichisch-ungarischen Monarchie: 1867-1918, vol. 4, 1883-1895.
February 1, 1995... These two tomes, the latest fruit of the two most important collective undertakings in the whole field of Austrian or Habsburg history, neatly complement each other by their simultaneous appearance. The Habsburgermonarchie volume complements also...