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The article reviews the book "How to Do Things With Books in Victorian Britain" by Leah Price.

A review of the book "Modern Typography in Britain: Graphic Design, Politics & Society " edited by Paul Stiff is presented.

Reviews the book "Women in Early Modern Britain, 1450-1640," by Christine Peters.

Books reviewed: Amanda Vickery (ed.), Women, Privilege and Power: British Politics, 1750 to the Present Jane Moody, Illegitimate Theatre in London, 1770–1840 Steve Poole, The Politics of Regicide in England 1760–1850: Troublesome Subjects Gordon Corrigan, Wellington: A Military Life George K. Behlmer and Fred M. Leventhal (ed.), Singular Continuities: Tradition, Nostalgia, and Identity in Modern British Culture Michael H. Shirley and Todd E. A. Larson (ed.), Splendidly Victorian: Essays in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century British History in Honour of Walter L. Arnstein Martin Hewitt (ed.), An Age of Equipoise? Reassessing Mid-Victorian Britain Robert Sloan, William Smith O’ Brien and the Young Ireland Rebellion of 1848 K. D. M. Snell and Paul S. Ell, Rival Jerusalems. The Geography of Victorian Religion E. J. T. Collins (ed.), The Agrarian History of England and Wales Volume 7: 1850–1914 Trevor Royle, Crimea: The Great Crimean War 1854–1856 Edwin Jaggard (ed.), Liberalism in West Cornwall: The 1868 Election Papers of A. Pendarves Vivian, M.P. Bruce L. Kinzer, England’s Disgrace? J. S. Mill and the Irish Question John K. Walton, Blackpool Archie Hunter, A Life of Sir John Eldon Gorst: Disraeli’s Awkward Disciple Mary Lynn Stewart, For Health and Beauty: Physical Culture for Frenchwomen, 1880s–1930s Rudy Koshar, From Monuments to Traces: Artefacts of German Memory, 1870–1990 Alastair Thompson, Left Liberals, the State, and Popular Politics in Wilhelmine Germany Annika Mombauer, Helmuth von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War John Mosier, The Myth of the Great War: A New Military History of World War One Andrew Britton, Monetary Regimes of the Twentieth Century David Kynaston, The City of London. Volume 3, Illusions of Gold 1914–1945 Enda Delaney, Demography, State and Society: Irish Migration to Britain, 1921–1971 Kay Chadwick (ed.), Catholicism, Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century France Claire Langhamer, Women’s Leisure in England, 1920–60 Andrew Shennan, The Fall of France, 1940 Ian Dear and M. R. D. Foot (ed.), The Oxford Companion to World War II Malcolm Smith, Britain and 1940: History, Myth and Popular Memory Martin Conway and José Gotovitch (ed.), Europe in Exile, 1940–45: European Exile Communities in Britain Klaus Larres and Ann Lane (ed.), The Cold War Hanna Schissler (ed.), The Miracle Years: A Cultural History of West Germany 1949–1968 Peter B. Johnson, Reuter Reporter among the Communists, 1958–59. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Jason Lennard of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research reviews "The National Debt: A Short History," by Martin Slater. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: "Chronicles the evolution of Great Britain's National Debt, focusing on its contexts, motivations, the different forms that borrowing has taken over the centuries, the various attempts of management, and the contemporary controversies about attitudes toward the debt." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "British Plant Communities. Volume 3. Grasslands and Montane Communities," by J.S. Rodwell.

A review of the book "Casualties of Credit: The English Financial Revolution, 1620-1720," by Carl Wennerlind, is presented.

The article reviews the book "A History of Britain in Thirty-Six Postage Stamps," by Chris West.

The article reviews the book "A People's Conscience," by Strathearn Gordon and T. G. B. Cocks.

The article reviews the book "Postal Pleasures: Sex, Scandal, and Victorian Letters," by Kate Thomas.

The article reviews the book "Money Over Two Centuries: Selected Topics in British Monetary History," by Forrest H. Capie and Geoffrey E. Wood.

Reviews the book 'Liberalism in West Cornwall. The 1868 Election Papers of A. Pendarves Vivian, M.P.,' edited with an introduction by Edwin Jaggard.

A review of the book "James Young Simpson: Lad O Pairts," by Alison Nuttall and Rosemary Mander is presented.

The article reviews the book "Industrial Relations Handbook."

The article reviews the book "Profits and Stability of Monopoly," by M. A. Utton.

A review of the book "London Uprising: Fifty Fashion Designers, One City," edited by Tania Fares and Sarah Mower, is presented.