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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 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 issue of Scottish unionism is one which may or may not have a future; but it is certainly one with a long past. In this timely review, Jenny Wormald reflects on Colin Kidd's recent study of unionist thought in Scotland from the seventeenth century to the present day.

    Read the article here.
  • Was there one fascism, many, or none at all? Such issues of interpretation have dominated historical discussions of the extreme-right in twentieth-century Europe. One of the leading participants in that debate, Roger Griffin, analyses the strengths and weaknesses of the new Oxford Handbook of Fascism.

    Read the article here.
  • Jacques Le Goff's biography of Saint Louis has become since its publication in French something of a modern historical classic. Now finally it has appeared in English translation, and Hannah Skoda discusses its enduring influence.

    Read the article here.
  • The intersection between gender history and imperial history has emerged as a major focus of recent historiography. Antoinette Burton reviews Clarge Midgley’s study of early British feminists and empire.

    Read the article here.
  • The ways in which Zionist and Nazi projects in some respects converged in the 1930s is the subject of Francis Nicosia’s study reviewed here by Kristin Krüger.

    Read the article here.
  • The court culture of Charles II is examined in Matt Jenkinson’s review of Anna Keay’s recent monograph.

    Read the article here.

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Dr Martin Conway

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Dr Anna Bayman