The English Historical Review articles from September 1995

The English Historical Review archives from September 1995

Angus Macintyre (1935-94)
September 1, 1995... ANGUS MACINTYRE, who was killed in a motor accident on 21 December 1994, took over as Reviews Editor of the English Historical Review from George Holmes in 1978 and, following the sequence established by Michael Wallace-Hadrill, became Articles...

The Norman Conquest through European Eyes.
September 1, 1995... In the spring of 1066 Duke William of Normandy sent Gilbert, Archdeacon of Lisieux, to Rome as his messenger to enlist the support of Pope Alexander II (1061-73) for his plans to dispute King Harold's succession to the English throne by force...

Richard II and the vocabulary of kingship.
September 1, 1995... In the summer of 1397 Richard II's kingship suddenly changed its character. The king's behaviour became more tyrannical. In mid-July the three senior Appellants were arrested, and two months later they were put on trial. In the Parliament which...

British socialism and American romanticism.
September 1, 1995... In 1906 William Stead sent a questionnaire to prominent members of the Labour party asking what books had influenced them.(1) The most frequently cited authors were Carlyle and Ruskin, but Emerson and Thoreau came not far behind. Much has been...

Sir Walter Ralegh's treason: a prosecution document.
September 1, 1995... The so-called Main plot of 1603, hatched by the Warden of the Cinque Ports, Henry Brooke, Lord Cobham, and by his friend Sir Walter Ralegh, remains a puzzling affair, doubts surrounding its nature, purpose, even its existence. Down the years,...

Towards an edition of Peter of Blois's letter-collection.
September 1, 1995... A NEW edition of the letters of Peter of Blois, whose whole career from about in 1168 till his death in 1212 was based in England, has been a major desideratum of medieval scholarship for a very long time. There have been several attempts to...

Carolingian Culture. Emulation and Innovation.
September 1, 1995... This handsome book `began life as a course of lectures in the History Faculty in Cambridge for final-year undergraduates taking the Specified Subject: "Rome's heirs: The Germanic kingdoms of western Europe, 476-987."' The ten essays which it...

Simon de Montfort.
September 1, 1995... Over the past one hundred and fifty years, Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, has dominated the historiographical landscape of thirteenth-century England to a degree unparalleled by any other magnate in any other century. Even in the popular...

Scots and Britons: Scottish Political Thought and the Union of 1603.
September 1, 1995... Having devoted its initial seminars chiefly to the varieties of political argument to be found in early modern England, in 1990-1 the Folger Institute Center for the History of British Political Thought turned its attention northwards, towards...

Politics and Opinion in Crisis: 1678-81.
September 1, 1995... In recent years a lively debate has developed on the nature of party under Charles II. Did party divisions perpetuate those of the civil wars or prefigure those of the early eighteenth century? Can one indeed call the political groupings that...

The Past in French History.
September 1, 1995... How should one write the history of modern France? Robert Gildea poses the question at the outset of his new book and rejects the approaches of positivists, Marxists, Annalistes, exponents of `modernisation theory' and english empiricists,...

God and Greater Britain: Religion and National Life in Britain and Ireland, 1843-1945.
September 1, 1995... Archbishop Fisher once reflected that Winston Churchill `had a very real religion, but it was a religion of the Englishman. He had a very real belief in Providence; but it was God as the God with a special care for the values of the British...

Conservative Century: The Conservative Party since 1900.
September 1, 1995... The Conservative party has been the most successful electoral machine in modern British politics. Between 1880 and 1991 it won sixteen of the twenty-eight general elections. Yet, as these books demonstrate, this unprecedented string of...

Streitfall Deutschland. Die britische Linke und die 'Demokratisierung' des Deutschen Reiches, 1900-1918.
September 1, 1995... Before the First World War the parties and groups of the british Left had not played a prominent part, in the international socialist movement, nor were many of them deeply interested in developments across the Channel. Individual leaders like...

Lenin. Life and Legacy.
September 1, 1995... WHEN appointed director of the USSR's Military History Institute, Colonel-General Volkogonov was to all appearances a stalwart Communist. But familiarity with the archival materials under his control sowed doubt in his mind and gradually his...

A History of British Trade Unions since 1889.
September 1, 1995... This is the final instalment of a trilogy that deals with the trade unions' rise to maturity. It is also, in many ways, the culmination of the story, since the period covered, in Clegg's judgement, saw the unions achieving their greatest...

War and Economy in the Third Reich.
September 1, 1995... This very interesting volume contains eleven articles on the economy in the Third Reich, only two of which are previously unpublished. They range from unemployment in the Weimar Republic to the question of `guns or butter' during World War II,...