Judging from this sparkling collection, the current state of historiography of the French Revolution is healthy indeed. Social and cultural history has come a long way since Norman Hampsonâs pioneering A Social History of the French Revolution, first published in 1963 (and still in print). The sixteen contributors include both established and emerging scholars, twelve of them women, heavily concentrated in the USA and the UK, with solitary contributors from Canada, New Zealand, and France itself. In their engaging overview of the volume, the editors Mette Harder and Jennifer Ngaire Heuer avoid grand statements about their aims beyond offering âa collection of stories of individual and collective experienceâ to illuminate the sensations of daily life (p. 12), although they suggest surprisingly that the Revolution âanticipated later regimesâ âtotalitarianâ intrusions into peopleâs everyday existenceâ (p. 2). They also eschew conventional narrative approaches, instead grouping the eclectic contributions around three broad themes. The first is on revolutionary identities and spaces (Jill Maciak Walshaw on rural politics; Laura Talamante on women in Marseille; Hannah Callaway on landlords and tenants in Paris; Christopher Tozzi on the army; Abigail Coppins and Heuer on French Caribbean prisoners of war in Britain). Part Two, on revolutionary justice, has an overview by Claire Cage, then closer studies of surveillance, by Ralph Kingston; prostitution, by Clyde Plumauzille; and the âright to healthâ, by Sean M. Quinlan. The final section, on revolutionary experience, practices, and sensations, ranges widely through discussions of food, by E. C. Spary; Anglo-American imaginings of violence in France, by Ashli White; a broad survey of religion, by Jonathan Smyth; miniature paintings done in prisons, by Sophie Matthiesson; and the lives of parents and children, by SiĂąn Reynolds. This original and illuminating collection will be a rich resource for students and, with its extensive notes and reference, for researchers looking for the current state of our knowledge in multiple fields. Every contribution is accompanied by an illustrative primary source, all well-chosen and sometimes captivating. In Callawayâs words, âinformation about daily life in the past can come from unexpected sourcesâ (p. 82), in her case from detail in disputes about tenancy agreements when landlords emigrated. There are two limitations to the collection. One is that, while the editors are well aware that many historians now highlight the Thermidoriansâ post facto creation of âthe reign of Terrorâ out of the haphazard crisis measures of 1793â94, in general the contributors adhere to time-worn conceptions of âthe Terrorâ as deliberate state policy made âthe order of the dayâ by Jacobin âarchitectsâ. The second is more important: after Walshawâs probing chapter, the 85 per cent of French people who inhabited Franceâs small towns and villages disappear from the stage. There are innovative studies of working women in Marseille, Caribbean prisoners of war in Britain, and the children of prominent revolutionaries, but the collection is otherwise confined to Paris. Nevertheless, this is an outstanding, often brilliant, collection which deserves recognition and frequent consultation for its refreshing insights into the myriad worlds of revolutionary experience.