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The English Historical Review is pleased to provide advance access to a selection of forthcoming reviews in the journal. These reviews are intended to provide just a selection of the more than sixty reviews and review articles which appear in each of the bi-monthly issues of EHR.

The journal covers all areas of History, and contains the largest number of reviews of any history journal published in Britain. This selection of forthcoming reviews will be updated regularly, and tries to reflect different areas of historical research.

The top three reviews each month are available free; the other reviews are available to subscribers to the journal. For details of how to subscribe to EHR, please click here.

Featured Reviews



  • The Economist is the latest newspaper to have published an on-line database. Hugh Pemberton reviews the database, seeing how far it does provide historians with a usable way of exploring the contents of the newspaper.

    Read the article here.
  • The Cambridge History of Science's Volume III has reached the early-modern period. In his review, Stephen Pumfrey reflects on the contents of a volume, which in its conception and argument marks a distinct departure from older narratives of progress and discovery.

    Read the article here.
  • In this review article, Matthew Jones looks at the latest volumes to appear from the FRUS project in Washington. The documents published provide a new insight into the working of the Nixon-Kissinger presidency.

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Advance Access Articles


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