Since 1999, The Trustees of The Rothschild Archive have produced an Annual Review. The Annual Review contains articles by researchers and staff of the Archive about research conducted during the year, together with information about new accessions and aquisitions, and projects developed by the Archive and its partners. Click the links below to download a complete issue or click the arrow to reveal a list of individual articles, with the option to download each article individually. The downloads open as PDF files.
Review of the Year: April 2013 - March 2014
- Introduction by Eric de Rothschild
- Review of the Year's Work by Melanie Aspey
- Nathan Rothschild and the battle of Waterloo by Brian Cathcart
- An absolute passion: The Rothschilds' orchid collections at Gunnersbury Park, Tring Park, Exbury Gardens - and London's East End by Francesca Murray
- Unmasking 'King John of Portugal' by Fiona McGarel-Groves
- 'There are three types of men': Lionel de Rothschild and the Jewish War Services Committee, 1915-1919 by Justin Cavernelis-Frost
- Time is on our side: the Rothschild family in World War I by Natalie Broad
- Beloved friend to so many: the papers of Leopold de Rothschild (1927-2012) by Melanie Aspey
- Principal Acquisitions
Review of the Year: April 2012 - March 2013
- Introduction by Eric de Rothschild
- Review of the Year's Work by Melanie Aspey
- Rothschild cousins in a global world by Hassan Malik
- The Rothschild Scientists workshop by Jenni Thomas
- Charlotte 'Chilly' von Rothschild: mother, connoisseur and artist by Evelyn M.Cohen
- Mr Warren's photograph album: memories of a vanished Rothschild estate by Justin Cavernelis-Frost
- 'The book that started it all': art, archives and Austria by Melanie Aspey
- Principal Acquisitions
Review of the Year: April 2011 - March 2012
- Introduction by Eric de Rothschild
- Review of the Year's Work by Melanie Aspey
- Information, Archives and Financial History by Emma Rothschild
- The Rothschilds, the Montefiores, and the Victorian Gold Rush by Angus Trumble
- Birds, bugs and botany: a brief introduction to the world of Rothschild and Science by Jenni Thomas
- The World Writes to Walter: Cataloguing Tring's Correspondence by Lorna Cahill
- The American Project by Kathryn Boodry
- Mice in the Reading Room: a new home for the Archive by Natalie Broad
- Principal Acquisitions
Review of the Year: April 2010 - March 2011
- Introduction by Eric de Rothschild
- Review of the Year's Work by Melanie Aspey
- New Light on the 1847 election in the City of London by Vic Gray
- With a little help from their friends: the maintenance of Brazilian credit, 1889-1898 by Anders L. Mikkelsen
- Sharing knowledge and creating new partnerships: a new website for The Rothschild Archive by Justin Cavernelis-Frost
- The collecting tastes of Baroness Edmond de Rothschild by Rachael Boak
- 'Spanish Quicksilver': a preliminary note. The London market, global trade and the Rothschild monopoly (1830-1850) by Tristan Platt
- The Rothschild archives at Roubaix: new work by Claire-Amandine Soulié
- Principal Acquisitions
Review of the Year: April 2009 - March 2010
- Introduction by Eric de Rothschild
- Review of the Year's work by Melanie Aspey
- 'A mystery to the future historian...'? August Belmont and the Atlantic Trade in Cotton 1837-1865 by Kathryn Boodry
- Motoring Rothschilds: style, speed and sport by Justin Cavernelis-Frost
- The Rothschilds and the Austrian (Austro-Hungarian) Consular Service by Rudolf Agstner
- 'Hugs from your sincere friend Thildi': Letters from Mathilde Lieben to Marie de Rothschild by Lisa-Maria Tillian
- Travels in Europe: 'Stray Leaves From My Journey, 1867' by Melanie Aspey
- The English Rothschilds and the Vale of Aylesbury by Nicola Pickering
- Principal Acquisitions
Review of the Year: April 2008 - March 2009
- Introduction by Eric de Rothschild
- Review of the Year's Work by Melanie Aspey
- Brothers-in-law: the Rothschilds and the Montefiores by Abigail Green
- Béatrice 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
- Introduction by Eric de Rothschild
- Review of the Year's Work 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
- Introduction by Eric de Rothschild
- Review of the Year's Work 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
- Introduction by Eric de Rothschild
- Review of the Year's Work 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
- Introduction by Emma Rothschild
- Review of the Year's Work 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 Ðekic
- 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
- Introduction by Emma Rothschild
- Review of the Year's Work 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
- Introduction by Emma Rothschild
- Review of the Year's Work by Vic Gray
- The Rothschild Archive Lecture 2003: The Historian and his Debts by Fritz Stern
- The Rothschild Research Forum by Melanie Aspey
- "Interfered with by the state of the times", the American Civil War in the letters of August Belmont by Elaine Penn
- Aston Clinton House, Buckinghamshire by Diana Gulland
- Nathan Mayer Rothschild and Brazil: the role of Samuel Phillips & Co by Roderick J Barman
- "A pair of every species", Tunney's expedition in Australia, 1901-1903 by Vic Gray
- Principal acquisitions
Review of the Year: April 2001 - March 2002
- Introduction by Emma Rothschild
- Review of the Year's Work by Vic Gray
- The Rothschild Archive Lecture 2002: The Embarassment of Riches: Historians and Wealth in Modern Britain by David Cannadine
- The Return of the Austrian Rothschild Archive by Vic Gray
- Salomon's Archive by Melanie Aspey
- Hannah, Charlotte...and Julia by Colin Ford
- Anselm von Rothschild, Collector by Felicitas Kunth
- Principal acquisitions
Review of the year: April 2000 - March 2001
- Introduction by Emma Rothschild
- Review of the Year's Work by Vic Gray
- The Rothschild Archive Lecture 2001: The Cash Nexus: Banking and Politics in History, by Niall Ferguson
- 'Up to our noses in smoke', the tobacco trade: The Rothschilds as traders in commodities by Richard Schofield
- Rothschild in the News: Rothschild newspapers cuttings from The Stadt-und Universitätsbibliothek, Frankfurt by Melanie Aspey
- Charles Stuart and the Secret Service by Robert Franklin
- The Clementine: the 125th anniversary of The Clementine Hospital in Frankfurt by Melanie Aspey
- Whatever happened to Sarah? A memento of the Halton Industrial Exhibition of 1868 by Vic Gray
- Principal Acquisitions
Review of the Year: April 1999 - March 2000
- Introduction by Emma Rothschild
- Review of the Year's Work by Vic Gray
- The Rothschild Archive Lecture 2000: Research is the Art of Encounter: The Sources of Business History, by David S. Landes
- Breaking the seal: an outline of the Yiddish letters project by Vic Gray
- The Spanish agents: the Weisweiller and Bauer Cataloguing project by Elaine Penn
- Governments and the Markets: Then and Now by Layna Mosley
- Find of the Year: a description of a newly acquired 19th century photographic album by Melanie Aspey
- Principal acquisitions