Lytton Strachey : l’historien intime de deux reines by Jeannine Hayat

“…The two books made him a very famous historian. However, he would personally have preferred to be admired for his poetry or his plays, for he was a very gifted literary author. …”
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L’historien et le jeu-vidéo by Julien Lalu

“…Offer a historical step of analysis of the object-game to grab in what the historian can use this medium to understand stakes of the representations of past in popular culture. …”
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A «new society will come»: C.L.R. James in American Civilisation by Matteo Battistini

“…A Caribbean communist, historian of the black and Pan-Africanist movements, C.L.R. …”
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“True fiction” – the memory and the postmemory of traumatic war events in a picturebook by Magdalena Howorus-Czajka

“…The transcription of the Second World War memory into picturebooks is especially interesting for me as a historian of art. I analyse the artistic styles adapted by the artists to express difficult topics, such as the holocaust, the horror of concentrations camps, hunger, fear, loss of family, death. …”
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A Critical Review on the Book Ibn Khaldon and History by Abolhasan Fayaz Anush

“…Persian translation of Ibn Khaldon and History'-a book by Mohammad Talbi (1921-2017); a Tunesian historian and thinker-provide a fortune to Iranian for getting familiar with the author and his thoughts. …”
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Profession, Vocation and Image of Antonio de Lebrija until 1950: From grammaticus to Father of Spanish Linguistics by Joaquín Pascual Barea

“…In the subsequent centuries, Lebrija’s status as historian was also valued, as well as his contribution to other disciplines, especially his commentaries on religious texts, his pedagogical works and his poetry. …”
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Veniamin Mikhailovich Samosudov — man and scientist at crossroads of times (1926–2010) by S. V. Novikov

“…Based on the memoirs of colleagues, materials of archival collections, personal impressions, the author comes to the conclusion that the doctor of historical Sciences, Professor, member of the CPSU, rector of the OSPI named after M. Gorky was a major historian — the Creator of the scientific school. …”
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Le latin dans le système éducatif allemand de la première moitié du xixe siècle by Christophe Bertiau

“…In a recent book, the historian Bas van Bommel has convincingly challenged the validity of the concept of “neo–humanism” (Neuhumanismus) as a description for nineteenth-century humanism in Germany. …”
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The ancient past and fiction, or about the construction of worlds by humanities scholars: A review of books by D.E. Martynov

“…The new novel “The Triumphant” by Olga Eliseeva, a professional historian, can be labeled as a form of the “science novel” genre, because it has numerous references and “anchors” that only an educated person is able to understand. …”
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Thesaurus Exemplorum Medii Aevi : une base de données collaborative sur les exempla médiévaux by Jean-Paul Rehr, Marie-Anne Polo de Beaulieu

“…With the “anthropological turn” in historical research, new attention was paid to exempla as sources of cultural and historical insight, notably by the historian Jacques Le Goff and his student-inheritors.ThEMA, a database of medieval exempla, began life in the 1990s in the hands of these inheritors, and has grown and transformed since then. …”
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La prison de Guingamp, de l’ombre à la lumière by Emmanuel Laot

“…The prison was built by the Côtes-du-Nord department and opened in 1841 thanks to Charles Lucas, general inspector of prisons, Louis Lorin, departmental architect and Alexis de Tocqueville, the great French historian, thinker and publicist. We owe them this humanist architectural design of the idea that a prison is not simply a place of confinement. …”
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Les Najāḥides by Sobhi Bouderbala

“…Najāḥ, used by the Yemeni historian ‘Umāra in his al-Mufīd fī akhbār Ṣan‘ā’ wa Zabīd. …”
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Nieznane polonika kanadyjskie – William John Rose i jego archiwalna spuścizna by Tomasz Pudłocki

“…Unknown Canadian Polonica – William John Rose and his archival legacy Abstract The author discusses the archival legacy of William John Rose (1885–1968), a Canadian Slavist, historian and sociologist, showing its usefulness in researching the history of science and the relations between Polish scholars and scientists from Anglo-Saxon countries. …”
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Méditations sur le « Paradoxe Pulp » : Pal, la Paramount et les pulps de SF by Jay P. Telotte

“…This essay reconsiders what genre historian Bradley Schauer terms the “pulp paradox”, that is, the film industry’s supposed reluctance to produce sf films because of a fear that doing so would associate the movies with “the less reputable variations of the genre” often associated with pulp literature. …”
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The concept of 'Russification' as understood by Professor P.V. Znamensky by T.M. Nekhorosheva

“…This article analyzes the concept of Russification in the works of Pyotr Vasilyevich Znamensky (1836–1917), a historian and professor of the Kazan Theological Academy. …”
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“No Damn Black Gown Sons of Bitches among Them”: Rough Music and the Counter-Pastoral in the Eighteenth-Century Carolina Backcountry by Allan KULIKOFF

“…“Rough music,” according to English historian E. P. Thompson, included “raucous, ear-shattering noise, unpitying laughter, and the mimicking of obscenities.” …”
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Newspaper cartoons as a reflection of political change during the first democratic elections in South Africa by Cornelius van Heerden

“…The following view of Schoonraad et al (1989:15: "A collection of cartoons covering a particular period, will present an unequalled graphic history of political and current events" They also add that the state of any nation is reflected by its newspaper cartoons Geipel 1972 argues that to the historian, cartoons represent priceless primary source of information about fleeting modes and morals of the passing generations. …”
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Marching towards the Cruzada: Douglas Jerrold's road to nationalist Spain by F. Hale

“…Perhaps no English Catholic played a more central role in the almost daily war of words in the secular and religious press than Douglas Jerrold (1893-1964), a lay publicist, novelist, and amateur historian whose Tory sentiments and disillusionment with liberal democracy and the course of modern civilisation in general permeated his writing. …”
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Joan W. Scott : écrire l’histoire, de Foucault à la psychanalyse by Thamy Ayouch

“…After her “Foucault turn”, Joan Scott caused a certain turmoil in the writing of history, conceived of by her as a strategy of resistance. The historian, who started reading Foucault in work groups at the Pembroke Center (Brown University), has continuously carried on engaging with Foucault up to her latest writings. …”
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Political Struggle of M. Fuad Köprülü: From Ruling Party to the Opposition (1956-1966) by Nasrullah Uzman

“…Fuad Köprülü who is known with his historian, thinker and the man of letters identity, is also a politician. …”
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