After a rather nice but long Christmas break, I’m pleased to report that Santa has delivered a bumper crop of 149 new books on British and Western European history. They  have now been added to LibraryThing.  There is too much to describe what has been added. There is a lot for medievalists, Tudor historians, books on the Reformation, Renaissance and Enlightenment, Victorian Britain, the Holocaust and WWII, and post-1945 history and much more. Check these out by using the browse and tag features in LibraryThing to see what is there.

I would like to highlight some titles with an Oxford connection: our very own Conrad Leyser and Lesley Smith have published Motherhood, Religion, and Society in Medieval Europe, 400-1400: essays presented to Henrietta Leyser (2011). Also, Peter Raina, currently Visiting Academic to Oxford, has published House of Lords reform : a history (2011).

Here are some more tasters: