David Monger reviews the ‘Propaganda: Power and Persuasion’ exhibition at the British Library
Features
Review: Women and Social Movements International, 1840 to the Present
Sinead McEneaney reviews the Women and Social Movements International reference database, published by Alexander Street Press, which contains 60,000 documents relating to women in social movements in the United States.
An Inadvertent Revolutionary? Developing Law, Crime and History as an Open Access Journal
Dr Kim Stevenson on being an inadvertent revolutionary with first-hand experience of Open Access publishing.
Lincoln Again
Manisha Sinha on Spielberg’s mythic rather than historical Lincoln, and missed opportunities to uncover the complex history of emancipation.
The Future Uses of History: Online Discussion
Are historians are well placed to play a more important role in policy making, as Pamela Cox (a senior lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex) argues? Please post your comments and join the discussion!
From Peer Review to the Wisdom of Crowds? Open Access & Peer Review
Josie McLellan writes on Open Access, and the potentially dramatic consequences, not only for the dissemination of research results, but for how they are produced and published.
Conference Report: Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism
A report by Susie Christensen from ‘Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism’ held on 21st-22nd September 2012 at the Wellcome Collection Conference Centre, London.