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REVIEW OF THE YEAR APRIL 2008-MARCH 2009
ISSN:1748-9148 (print) ISSN: 1748-9156 (web)

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Introduction by Eric de Rothschild
Review of the year by Melanie Aspey
Brothers-in-law: the Rothschilds and the Montefiores by Abigail Green
Beatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild: creator and collector by Ulrich Leben
The Rothschild School in the Austrian woods: Albert and Bettina's Kinderasyl by Julia Demmer
The Racing Rothschilds: the sportsmen, the maverick and the legend by Diana Stone
The Royal Mint Refinery, 1852-1968 by Michele Blagg
Principal Acquisitions



REVIEW OF THE YEAR APRIL 2007-MARCH 2008
ISSN:1748-9148 (print) ISSN: 1748-9156 (web)

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Review of the year by Melanie Aspey
'There is no need for anyone to go to America': commercial correspondence and nineteenth-century globalisation by Jessica Lepler
The public debt in Naples and the early history of C M de Rothschild & figli by Claire-Amandine Soulié
Mercury's agent: Lionel Davidson and the Rothschilds in Mexico by Alma Parra
'Pioneer' of finance: a token of royal approval by Tracy Wilkinson
Nathan Mayer Rothschild and his trade with the continent during the early years of the blockades (1803-1808) by Margrit Schulte Beerbuehl
'Poulet pour le diner des enfants': a Rothschild kitchen account book from the 1830s by Claire-Amandine Soulié

REVIEW OF THE YEAR APRIL 2006-MARCH 2007
ISSN:1748-9148 (print) ISSN: 1748-9156 (web)

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Introduction by Eric de Rothschild
Review of the year by Melanie Aspey
A family portrait by Michael Hall
Searching for oil in Roubaix by Joost Jonker and Jan Luiten van Zanden
Resources and reputations: historical precedents for recent banking crises by Marc Flandreau and Juan Flores
Enduring ephemera by Barbra Ruperto
One letter and a new understanding: The Rothschild Archive and the story of the Pekin Syndicate by Frank H.H. King
Minority interests by Claire-Amandine Soulié
Principal acquisitions

REVIEW OF THE YEAR APRIL 2005-MARCH 2006
ISSN:1748-9148 (print) ISSN: 1748-9156 (web)

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Introduction by Eric de Rothschild
Review of the year by Melanie Aspey
The colours of another world by Victor Gray
Takahashi Korekiyo, the Rothschilds and the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1907 by Richard Smethurst
Butlers and boardrooms: Alfred de Rothschild as collector and connoisseur by Jonathan Conlin
Egyptian finances in the nineteenth century: a Rothschild perspective by Caroline Shaw
Alexander Herzen and James de Rothschild by Derek Offord
'Si constante et si sûre': testimonies of Rothschild friendships by Melanie Aspey
Principal acquisitions

REVIEW OF THE YEAR APRIL 2004-MARCH 2005
ISSN:1748-9148 (print) ISSN: 1748-9156 (web)

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Introduction by Emma Rothschild
Review of the year by Melanie Aspey
The London house of Rothschild and its Belgian contacts (1815-1860) by Hans Willems
Collecting Chardins: Charlotte and Henri de Rothschild by Harry W. Paul
The oil refinery in Rijeka; a story of survival by Velid Ðejic
Fabergé and the Rothschilds by Kieran McCarthy
Far-sighted charity: Adolphe and Julie de Rothschild and their eye clinics in Paris and Geneva by Klaus Weber
Rothschild reunited; the records of de Rothschild Frères by Amable Sablon du Corail, Johann Comble and Melanie Aspey
Principal acquisitions

REVIEW OF THE YEAR APRIL 2003-MARCH 2004

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Introduction by Emma Rothschild
Review of the year by Victor Gray
One hundred years of the 'Bluff Rothschildien': housing the poor in Paris by Klaus Weber
The Rothschild bibliography by Caroline Shaw
'Nathan Rothschild's Company': Jews, Quakers and Catholics by Melanie Aspey
The Budapest Chain Bridge by Amelie Lanier
Mayer Carl von Rothschild: collector or patriot by Philippa Glanville
New boundaries: Baron Lionel, photography and the United Kingdom Electric Telegraph Company by Anthony Hamber
Cousins in Ceylon by Victor Gray and Ismeth Raheem
Principal acquisitions


REVIEW OF THE YEAR APRIL 2002-MARCH 2003

The Rothschild Archive Lecture 2003:
The Historian and his Debts, Fritz Stern, University Professor Emeritus, Columbia University, New York

Articles:
The Rothschild Research Forum
'"Interfered with by the state of the times", the American Civil War in the letters of August Belmont"
Aston Clinton House, Buckinghamshire, Diana Gulland, Archivist, Buckinghamshire Archeological Society
Nathan Mayer Rothschild and Brazil: the role of Samuel Phillips & Co, Roderick J Barman
"A pair of every species", Tunney's expedition in Australia, 1901-1903
Summary of new acquisitions


REVIEW OF THE YEAR APRIL 2001-MARCH 2002

The Rothschild Archive Lecture 2002:
The Embarrassment of Riches: Historians and Wealth in Modern Britain, Professor David Cannadine

Articles:
Hannah, Charlotte... and Julia: Colin Ford on the Rothschild family and the photographs of Julia Margaret Cameron
The return of the Viennese Rothschilds' papers from Moscow
Anselm von Rothschild, collector: Felicitas Kunth on the subject of her PhD research
Summary of new acquisitions

REVIEW OF THE YEAR APRIL 2000-MARCH 2001

The Rothschild Archive Lecture 2001:
The Cash Nexus: Banking and Politics in History, Niall Ferguson

Articles:
Charles Stuart and the Secret Service: Robert Franklin on his research into the life of Lord Charles Stuart at The Rothschild Archive
The tobacco trade: papers in The Rothschild Archive
Rothschild newspapers cuttings from The Stadt-und Universitätsbibliothek, Frankfurt
The 125th anniversary of The Clementine Hospital in Frankfurt
A memento of the Halton Industrial Exhibition on 1868
Summary of new acquisitions

REVIEW OF THE YEAR APRIL 1999-MARCH 2000

The Rothschild Archive Lecture 2000:
Research is the Art of Encounter: The Sources of Business History, David S. Landes

Articles:
Governments and the Markets -Then and Now: Layna Mosley explains how close examination of Rothschild business letters from the early 20th century illuminated her research into present-day relationships between international capital markets and government policy
An outline of the Yiddish letters project
A report on the papers of the Rothschild Spanish agents
Description of a newly acquired 19th century photographic album
Summary of new acquisitions