Lori Stokes has been awarded the Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize from the Massachusetts Historical Society for Gathered Into a Church. You can hear more about the book in this NACBS book event. 

Elizabeth Hines' War in the Time of Anglo-Dutch Empire, 1595-1652 has been selected as one of the winners of the 2026 Oxford University Press First Book Prize 

A Biographical Dictionary of British Painters, c1500-c1640, containing 3,171 entries, by Robert Tittler is now available. It replaces his earlier database entitled Early Modern British Painters.

Parliament and politics in revolutionary Britain and Ireland, 1640-60, edited by Alex Beeton is available next month from Manchester University Press (use EVENT30 to receive a 30% discount on this title)

Plymouth Blitz: The Bombing of Portland Square and the Devastation of a City by Michael McLaughlin (@mmwriteshistory) is now available from Simon and Schuster

The first volume of Tomb Monuments in Medieval Europe, edited by Paul Cockerham and Christian Steer, was published by Shaun Tyas (Donington, U.K.) in collaboration with the Yorkist History Trust earlier this year. It is the first of three volumes with contributions from twenty-one authors who examine different aspects of tomb commemoration - such as design, iconography, inscriptions, audience, patronage, etc - across Western Europe from c.1000 until the time of the Black Death