Very interesting book!

For the next few days we'll be posting about HEI's special issue on the historian's practice of periodisation and the concept of 'modernity', edited by @AlmuthEbke and Christoph Haack. Read their introduction here: doi.org/10.1080/019165…

Examining Voltaire's supposed 1741 letter to 's Gravesande, David Wootton (York, @ProfWootton) suggests we might have to acknowledge that the philosophe had a habit of falsifying the historical record doi.org/10.1080/019165…

[🆕📘NEW BOOK REVIEW] R. J. W. Mills (University of St Andrews) “Review of Justin Champion, Et al. eds, Politics, religion and ideas in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain: essays in honour of Mark Goldie.” IHR 34 (4): 888-891. doi.org/10.1080/174969…

Interview with Elad Carmel. Hobbes, reception history, deism, enjoy! intellectualhistory.net/new-work/antic… Robin Mills

[🆕📘NEW BOOK REVIEW] R. J. W. Mills (University of St Andrews) “Review of James Robert Wood, Anecdotes of Enlightenment: human nature from Locke to Wordsworth.” IHR 34 (4): 895-898. doi.org/10.1080/174969….

I reviewed Tuska Benes' excellent The Rebirth of Revelation: German Theology in an Age of Reason and History 1750-1850 (Toronto, 2022) for German History. German History Society. academic.oup.com/gh/advance-art…

[Open Access!] From Vol. 50 Iss. 7: Eleanor Pickford (Peterhouse, Cambridge) explores Judith Shklar's concern that individuals are often unwilling to reevaluate their views on the questions of political life: doi.org/10.1080/019165…

Just the right side of 2025, I've reviewed David Caute's Red List (Verso, 2022) for History of European Ideas. Domestic surveillance isn't glamorous or, often, based on much more than a hunch lefties are worthy of suspicion. Free access below. tandfonline.com/eprint/SIMXYED…

[🆕NEW OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE 🔓 (AHEAD OF PRINT)] Angus Harwood Brown (University of Chicago), “Republican hegemony as perpetual peace? Sieyès’s theory of international politics and the intellectual origins of Kant’s “federation of peoples"” IHR (2024). doi.org/10.1080/174969…

New interview with Dagmar Herzog. Listen here: intellectualhistory.net/new-work/the-q… Robin Mills Princeton University Press