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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

Hannah Dongsun Lee recently published "Hugo Grotius' Protestant Positive Law," in The Historical Journal 

Utathya Chattopadhyaya recently published Ganja Matters: Empire and the Pursuits of Cannabis in British India. You can hear a discussion with the author on NBN podcast and Channel podcast. 

"Indigenous Rights, Philanthropy and Humanitarian Governance across the Anglo-World, 1837-1951," by Darren Reid is now available to read in The Historical Journal 

Liverpool University Press have just published Wills and Windows: Testamentary Evidence for Glazing and Fenestration in Medieval England by Richard Marks and Christian Steer, in partnership with The British Academy and the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi

Erin Fettterly has recently published with AM Digital about the fascinating process of transcribing and the drawbacks of relying on AI.

Starting July 1, 2026, Nadja Durbach will be the Carroll J. Amundson Professor of British History at the University of Pittsburgh. She will continue as co-editor of JBS and welcomes applications from potential graduate students.

Rae Tunstall recently contributed a blog post, "Portrait Swiping: The Original Dating App," to the Royal Studies Network blog. 

Worlds of Framework Knitters in Leicestershire, c. 1600-1850 and Small town Space and Society Documents Illustrative of Loughborough in the Eighteenth Century, both by Dave Postles are now available for download here