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A 3rd edition of the popular 20th Century Britain: economic, cultural and social change (eds Nicole Robertson, John Singleton and Avram Taylor) has recently been published. Written by leading academics, this collection provides an essential guide to current academic thinking on the most important elements of modern British history.

Stephanie Barczewski recently published How the Country House Became English with Reaktion Books/University of Chicago Press.

How the Country House Became English was recently featured on the New Books Network podcast. You can check it out here.

Stephanie Barczewski, John Eglin, Stephen Heathorn, Michael Silvestri and Michelle Tusan recently published the second edition of Britain Since 1688: A Nation in the World with Routledge

Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre recently won the André Simon Award for her book Imperial Wine: How the British Empire Made Wine's New World

Gary DeKrey recently published "The Emergence of Leveller Polemic: William Walwyn, collaborative authorship and radical identity, 1645-7," in Historical Research

Michelle Tusan recently published The Last Treaty: Lausanne and the End of the First World War in the Middle East with Cambridge University Press

Michelle also recently contributed "The First World War and the Middle Eastern Front" to the CUP blog. You can read the post, here. 

Peter Stansky recently published The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War with Stanford University Press

Peter recently appeared on the New Books in History podcast to discuss the work. You can listen to the episode, here. 

L.H. Roper (@RoperLou) recently delivered a keynote paper, "Poachers Turned Gamekeepers: The Guinea Company and How English Overseas Interests Became a 'State' Matter" at the Pirates, Ports and Exports: Maritime Relations in the Age of Sail conference at University of Birmingham

Geoff Field recently published Elizabeth Wiskemann: Scholar, Journalist, Secret Agent with Oxford University Press.

Sarath Pillai recently published “German Lessons: Comparative Constitutionalism, States’ Rights, and Federalist Imaginaries in Interwar India,” in Comparative Studies in Society and History. You can follow Sarath on twitter @i_sarathpillai

Deborah Valenze recently published The Invention of Scarcity:Malthus and the Margins of History with Yale University Press

Jesse Wolfe recently published Love, Friendship, and Narrative Form After Bloomsbury: The Progress of Intimacy in History with Bloomsbury Academic Press.