Book reviewed in this article:The Origins of Writing, Edited by Wayne SennerEdward Gibbon: Luminous Historian, 1772–1794. By Patricia B. CraddockToynbee: Reappraisals. Edited by C. T. McIntire and Marvin PerryE. P. Thompson: Critical Perspectives. Edited by Harvey J. Kaye and Keith McClellandA. J. P. Taylor: Letters to Eva, 1969–83. Edited by Eva Haraszti TaylorThe French Historical Revolution: The Annales School, 1929–1989. By Peter BurkeIdeologies and Mentalities. By Michel VovelleThe Records of the Nation: The Public Record Office, 1838–1988. The British Record Society 1888–1988. Edited by C. H. Martin and Peter SpuffordHugo Grotius and International Relations. Edited by Hedley BullThe Art of War in the Western World. By Archer JonesTools of War: Instruments, Ideas and Institutions of Warfare 1445–1871. Edited by John A. LynnThe Patterns of War through the Eighteenth Century. By Larry H. AddingtonThe Limitations of Military Power: Essays Presented to Professor Norman Gibbs on his Eightieth Birthday. Edited by John B. Hattendorf and Malcolm H. MurfettThe British Way in Warfare, 1688–2000. By David FrenchCompanion to the History of Modern Science. Edited by R. C. Olby, G. N. Cantor, J. R. R. Christie and M. J. S. HodgeA History of Contraception: From Antiquity to the Present Day. By Angus McLarenHistory of Syphilis. By Claude Quétel. Translated by Judith Braddock and Brian PikeThe History of the Family. By James CaseyRoad to Divorce: England, 1530–1987. By Lawrence StoneMonastic Studies. Edited by Judith LoadesThe Politics of Demonology: The European Witcheraze and the Mass Production of Deviance. By Jon OplingerA Concise Economic History of the World: From Paleolithic Times to the Present. By Rondo CameronThe Coin Atlas: The World of Coinage from its Origins to the Present Day. By Joe CribbWork in Towns, 850–1850. Edited by Penelope J. Corfield and Derek KeeneAgrarian Society in History: Essays in Honour of Magnus Mörner. Edited by Mats Lundahl and Thommy SvenssonThe Landscape of Britain: From the Beginnings to 1914. By Michael ReedThe North of England: A History from Roman Times to the Present. By Frank MusgroveA Regional History of England: The South East from AD 1000. By Peter Brandon and‘Banquetting Stuffe’andThe Appetite and the Eye. Both edited by C. Anne WilsonBusiness History: Concepts and Measurement. Edited by Charles HarveyFarming: Sources for Local Historians. By Peter EdwardsDomesday York. By D. M. PalliserHanbury: Settlement and Society in a Woodland Landscape. By Christopher DyerThe Priory of Cartmel. By J. C. DickinsonThe Suppression of the Religious Houses in Bristol. By J. H. BetteyA Social History of Yoxall in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Edited by D. StuartThe Tudor and Stuart Town, 1530–7688. Edited by Jonathan BarryThe Eighteenth Century Town, 1688–1820. Edited by Peter Borsay‘Distinguishing Men's Trades’: Occupational Sources and Debates for Pre‐Census England. By P. Glennie‘The Business of Improvement’: Agriculture and Scientific Culture in Britain, c.1770‐c.1870. By S. WilmotThe Agricultural Revolution. By J. V. BeckettEast Riding Chapels and Meeting Houses. By David and Susan Neave‘One of the most useful charities in the City’: York Dispensary, 1788–1988. By K. A. WebbChurch and Chapel in the North Midlands. By K. D. M. SnellThe Religious Census of Sussex, 1850. Edited by J. A. VickersMutual Aid in the Victorian Countryside: Friendly Societies in th