TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 Murder & the Modern British Historian
Martin J. Wiener

12 English History Abridged: John Stow’s Shorter Chronicles
and Popular History
Barrett L. Beer

28 Henry Brougham and the 1818 Westmorland Election: A Study in
Provincial Opinion and the Opening of Constituency Politics
William Anthony Hay

52 Which?craft in Post-War Britain: The Consumers’ Association and the
Politics of Affluence
Lawrence Black

Reviews of Books

M. Bradford Bedingfield. The Dramatic Liturgy of Anglo-Saxon England.
by MILTON MCC. GATCH, 67

Martin Henig and Phillip Lindley, eds. Alban and St. Albans: Roman and Medieval
Architecture, Art and Archaeology. by ELIZABETH G. HAMILTON, 68

Alfred P. Smyth. The Medieval Life of King Alfred the Great: A Translation and
Commentary on the Text Attributed to Asser. by RICHARD ABELS, 70

Robert Liddiard, ed. Anglo-Norman Castles John Rickard. The Castle Community:
The Personnel of English and Welsh Castles, 1272–1422. by STEPHEN MORILLO, 72

Daniel Donoghue. Lady Godiva: A Literary History of the Legend.
by KATHERINE L. FRENCH, 74

Alexander Rose. Kings in the North: The House of Percy in British History.
by MONTGOMERY BOHNA, 75

M. Winterbottom and R. M. Thomson, eds. William of Malmesbury: Saints’ Lives:
Lives of SS. Wulfstan, Dunstan, Patrick, Benignus and Indract.
by JANET M. POPE, 77

S. H. Rigby, ed. A Companion to Britain in the Later Middle Ages.
by BOYD BRESLOW, 78

Björn K. U. Weiler, ed. England and Europe in the Reign of Henry III (1216–1272).
by HUGH M. THOMAS, 79

Maryanne Kowaleski, ed. The Havener’s Accounts of the Earldom and Duchy of
Cornwall, 1287–1356. by MAVIS E. MATE, 81

Chris Given-Wilson, ed. Fourteenth Century England II.
by RICHARD WUNDERLI, 82

Ruth Mazo Karras. From Boys to Men: Formations of Masculinity in Late
Medieval Europe. by MERRY WIESNER-HANKS, 83

Anne Lancashire. London Civic Theatre: City Drama and Pageantry from
Roman Times to 1558. by ADAM ZUCKER, 84

Michael Hicks. English Political Culture in the Fifteenth Century.
by LUCY BROWN, 86

James G. Clark, ed. The Religious Orders in Pre-Reformation England.
by JOSEPH H. LYNCH, 87

Barbara J. Harris. English Aristocratic Women, 1450–1550: Marriage and
Family, Property and Careers. by RALPH A. GRIFFITHS, 89

Rory McEntegart. Henry VIII, The League of Schmalkalden, and the English
Reformation. by GLYN REDWORTH, 91

Ethan H. Shagan. Popular Politics and the English Reformation.
by THOMAS F. MAYER, 93

Susan Wabuda. Preaching during the English Reformation.
by PETER MARSHALL, 95

William R. Newman and Lawrence M. Principe. Alchemy Tried in the Fire: Starkey,
Boyle, and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry. by WILLIAM E. BURNS, 96

Claire S. Schen. Charity and Lay Piety in Reformation London, 1500–1620.
by PAUL A. FIDELER, 98

Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, eds. Parliament at Work: Parliamentary
Committees, Political Power and Public Access in Early Modern England.
by IAN W. ARCHER, 99

Robert von Friedeburg. Self-Defence and Religious Strife in Early Modern Europe:
England and Germany, 1530–1680. by GLENN BURGESS, 100

James Ellison. George Sandys: Travel, Colonialism and Tolerance in the
Seventeenth Century. by W. BROWN PATTERSON, 102

Paul Salzman. Literary Culture in Jacobean England: Reading 1621.
by RICHARD F. HARDIN, 104

John Cramsie. Kingship and Crown Finance under James VI and I, 1603–1625.
by ROBERT ZALLER, 105

Thomas Cogswell, Richard Cust, and Peter Lake, eds. Politics, Religion and
Popularity in Early Stuart Britain: Essays in Honour of Conrad Russell.
by ERIC JOSEF CARLSON, 108

Austin Woolrych. Britain in Revolution, 1625–1660. by PAUL PINCKNEY 109
Elizabeth Lane Furdell. Publishing and Medicine in Early Modern England.
by BUCHANAN SHARP, 111

John Patrick Montaño. Courting the Moderates: Ideology, Propaganda, and the
Emergence of Party, 1660–1678. by GARY S. DEKREY, 112

Matthew Glozier. The Huguenot Soldiers of William of Orange and the
“Glorious Revolution” of 1688: The Lions of Judah. by ROBIN D. GWYNN, 114

William E. Burns. An Age of Wonders: Prodigies, Politics and Providence in
England 1657–1727. by MICHAEL P. WINSHIP, 116

Ingrid H. Tague. Women of Quality: Accepting and Contesting Ideals of
Femininity in England, 1690–1760. by SUSAN STAVES, 117

Norma Landau, ed. Law, Crime and English Society, 1660–1830.
by JOHN V. ORTH, 118

Jeremy Gregory and Jeffery S. Chamberlain, eds. The National Church in Local
Perspective: The Church of England and the Regions, 1660–1800.
by JOHN WOLFFE, 120

Sean Shesgreen. Images of the Outcast: The Urban Poor in the Cries of London.
by JOHN D. RAMSBOTTOM, 121

Jessica Warner. Craze: Gin and Debauchery in the Age of Reason.
by SUSAN M. KLING, 123

Jack Lynch. The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson.
by MARTINE WATSON BROWNLEY, 124

Patrick J. Speelman. Henry Lloyd and the Military Enlightenment of
Eighteenth-Century Europe. by JOHN B. HATTENDORF, 125

Jonathan Andrews and Andrew Scull, eds. Customers and Patrons of the
Mad-Trade: The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London.
by ROBERT HOUSTON, 127

Grace E. Moremen. Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge—Steadfast Son of
King George III. 1774–1850. by MALCOLM LESTER, 128

Kathleen Wilson. The Island Race: Englishness, Empire and Gender in the
Eighteenth Century. by JONATHAN LAMB, 129

Alexander S. Gourlay, ed. Prophetic Character: Essays on William Blake in Honor
of John E. Grant. by PAUL MINER, 131

William H. Galperin. The Historical Austen. by FRANCES FERGUSON 133
Jeremy Burchardt. The Allotment Movement in England, 1793–1873.
by JAMIE L. BRONSTEIN, 134

Donald Winch and Patrick K. O’Brien. The Political Economy of British
Historical Experience, 1688–1914. by JEAN-LAURENT ROSENTHAL, 135

Philip Salmon. Electoral Reform at Work: Local Politics and National Parties,
1832–1841. by RICHARD W. DAVIS, 137

Michael Slater. Douglas Jerrold, 1803–1857. by PETER MELLINI, 138

Jo Ellen Jacobs. The Voice of Harriet Taylor Mill. by BRUCE L. KINZER, 140

Paul L. Ziegler. Palmerston. by DAVID F. KREIN, 141

Joseph E. Inikori. Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England: A Study in
International Trade and Economic Development. by JOHN DARWIN, 143

Jeremy Burchardt. Paradise Lost: Rural Idyll and Social Change since 1800.
by PETER MANDLER, 144

David Powell. Nationhood and Identity: The British State Since 1800.
by FRANS COETZEE, 146

Mark Bevir and Frank Trentmann, eds. Critiques of Capital in Modern Britain and
America: Transatlantic Exchanges 1800 to the Present Day.
by DAVID E. TORRANCE, 147

Israel Finestein. Scenes and Personalities in Anglo-Jewry, 1800–2000.
by DAVID C. ITZKOWITZ, 150

Nicola Verdon. Rural Women Workers in Nineteenth-Century England: Gender,
Work and Wages. by STEPHEN CAUNCE, 151

Charles F. Wooley. The Irritable Heart of Soldiers and the Origins of
Anglo-American Cardiology: The U.S. Civil War (1861) to World War I (1918).
by W. F. BYNUM, 153

Kenneth McConkey. Memory and Desire: Painting in Britain and Ireland at the
Turn of the Twentieth Century. by ANTHONY LACY GULLY, 154

Patrick O’Brien and Armand Clesse, eds. Two Hegemonies: Britain 1846–1914 and
the United States 1941–2001. by MICHAEL L. KRENN, 156

James Epstein. In Practice: Studies in the Language and Culture of Popular Politics
in Modern Britain. by MICHAEL T. SALER, 158

James J. Nott. Music for the People: Popular Music and Dance in Interwar
Britain. by JEFFREY RICHARDS, 160

Timothy Larsen. Cristabel Pankhurst: Fundamentalism and Feminism in Coalition.
by KAREN HUNT, 161

John Shepherd. George Lansbury: At the Heart of Old Labour.
by CHRIS WRIGLEY, 163

Keith Laybourn. Unemployment and Employment Policies Concerning Women in
Britain, 1900–1951. by DEBORAH GORHAM, 164

Martin Daunton. Just Taxes: The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1914–1979.
by NEIL ROLLINGS, 165

Antony Best. British Intelligence and the Japanese Challenge in Asia, 1914–1941.
by CHRISTOPHER M. BELL, 167

Edward J. Cowan. “For Freedom Alone”: The Declaration of Arbroath, 1320.
by DARLENE M. HALL, 168

Stuart MacDonald. The Witches of Fife: Witch-Hunting in a Scottish Shire,
1560–1710. by LINDA J. DUNBAR, 170

Pamela E. Ritchie. Mary of Guise in Scotland, 1548–1560: A Political Career.
by JOHN R. YOUNG, 171

Edward J. Cowan and Richard J. Finlay, eds. Scottish History: The Power of the
Past. by GORDON DESBRISAY, 173

Paul O’Leary. Immigration and Integration: The Irish in Wales, 1798–1922.
by W. P. GRIFFITH, 175

Michael Hopkinson. The Irish War for Independence. by PAUL A. TOWNEND, 176

David Armitage and Michael J. Braddick, eds. The British Atlantic World,
1500–1800. by ROGER L. EMERSON, 177

Catherine Hall. Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English
Imagination, 1830–1867. by HILARY BECKLES, 179

Keith Kyle. Britain’s End of Empire in the Middle East. by ROGER ADELSON, 181

J. Forbes Munro. Maritime Enterprise and Empire: Sir William MacKinnon and
His Business Network, 1823–93. by B. W. E. ALFORD, 182