Cultural and Social History

Anthony McElligott is Professor of History and Director of the Centre for Historical Research at the University of Limerick. Alexandra Shepard is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of History, and Fellow of Christ's College, University of Cambridge. Book Reviews Editor: Louise Jackson (University of Edinburgh, UK)

[provisional] Articles * The Languages Of Peace During The French Religious Wars PENNY ROBERTS * Royalty, Romance and Recreation: The Construction of the Past and the Origins of Royal Tourism in Nineteenth-century Britain JOHN BAXENDALE * Feminist Anglo-Saxonism?: Representations of 'Scotch' Women in the English Women's Press in the Late Nineteenth Century MEGAN SMITLEY * Pigeon Racing and Working-class Culture in Britain, c. 1870-1950 MARTIN JOHNES * Scarification in Africa: Re-reading Colonial Evidence MEGAN VAUGHAN *'Subtopias of Good Intentions': Everyday Landscapes in Postwar Britain JOE MORAN Book Reviews * The Other Empire: Metropolis, India and Progress in the Colonial Imagination. By John Marriott (Reviewed by James Jaffe) * Peace and Freedom: The Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements in the 1960s. By Simon Hall (Reviewed by Dianne Kirby) * Envisioning an English Empire: Jamestown and the Making of the North Atlantic World. Edited by Robert Appelbaum and John Wood Sweet (Reviewed by Keith Mason) * Culture, Politics and National Identity in Wales 1832-1886. By Matthew Cragoe (Reviewed by Tom O'Malley) * Music in the Holocaust: Confronting Life in the Nazi Ghettos and Camps. By Shirli Gilbert (Reviewed by Simon Phillips) * Reformation and the Culture of Persuasion. By Andrew Pettegree (Reviewed by Dave Postels) * Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews': Perspectives from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century. Edited by Tony Kushner and Nadia Valman (Reviewed by William D. Rubinstein) * Creating and Consuming Culture in North-east England, 1660-1830. Edited by Helen Berry and Jeremy Gregory (Reviewed by Jonathan White)