Abstract

DAVID REEDER, editor, The Urban History Yearbook stitutes urban history and what principles should guide 1986. Leicester University Press, Leicester, 1986. 218 its flagship publication? The lack of discipline over pages, index. £18.50. articles, the patchy attempt to survey theses, and the internationalism which essentially extends only to The Urban History Yearbook has been around for North America (see the conference reports and the some years now, enormously useful yet somehow so survey of periodical articles) all indicate the need to much less than the sum of its parts. The committee increase the internal coherence and consistencies of which produces it under the indefatigable editorial what has always been a very useful publication. leadership of David Reeder is surely aware of that problem, and the editorial concludes with a shopping University of Essex GEOFFREY CROSSICK list of new kinds of material which the Yearbook would like to include, which suggests both a sense of dis- satisfaction with its current contents and an. M. HARTIGAN and M. JACKSON, The History of the Irish in uncertainty about how it should develop. Its con- Britain: a Bibliography. The Irish in Britain History stituency must be contracting, for the urban history Centre, 1986.