Friday's Notes

#50, an early modern edition of the festival, goes up at Nick's Mercurius Politicus on Sunday 24 May. Send nominations of the best of early modern history blogging since 22 March to mercuriuspoliticus*at*googlemail*dot*com or use the form.

The shortlist for Great Britain's Samuel Johnson Prize in nonfiction is: Liaquat Ahamed's Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, Ben Goldacre's Bad Science, David Grann's The Lost City of Z, Philip Hoare's Leviathan, Richard Holmes's The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science, and Manjit Kumar's Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality.

Richard Vinen,"The great British crisis, 1918–1939," TLS, 20 May, reviews Richard Overy's The Morbid Age: Britain between the wars.

David Runciman,"Like Boiling a Frog," LRB, 28 May, reviews Andrew Lih's The Wikipedia Revolution.