Should we concrete over ‘dark tourist’ monuments?

Aug 10, 2022

By Daniel Snowman, Senior Fellow, IHR This is the final in a series of three blog pieces by IHR Senior Fellow, Daniel Snowman, raising provocative issues about how we regard and memorialise what we think of as ‘history’. Read the first and second blogs...

The spatial dimension in historical narratives

Jul 22, 2022

This post was written by Jeremy Haslam, Senior Fellow at the IHR. This might seem an odd conjunction of ideas.  But in some of the historical work I have conducted over the last 40 years or so, the relationship this blog explores is important. This short...

Why not Narrate History Backwards?

Jun 30, 2022

By Daniel Snowman, Senior Fellow, IHR This is the second in a series of three blog pieces by IHR Senior Fellow, Daniel Snowman, raising provocative issues about how we regard and memorialise what we think of as ‘history’. These will be published monthly....

Why Not Let the Leaning Tower of Pisa Collapse?

May 12, 2022

By Daniel Snowman This is the first in a series of three blog pieces by IHR Senior Fellow, Daniel Snowman, raising provocative issues about how we regard and memorialise what we think of as ‘history’. These will be published monthly. We all seek what we...

New Frontiers in American Slave Revolts

Jun 17, 2017

This post has kindly been written for us by Kathryn Olivarius, Past & Present Fellow. No champion of American slavery had a larger pulpit or did more articulate and forward proslavery ideology than Senator John C. Calhoun, the former Vice-President and darling of...

The tolls of archival research and how it has made me a better historian

Mar 24, 2017

This post has kindly been written for us by Joseph Harley, EHS Postan Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research. Since I was an undergraduate student I have been interested in researching poverty. The poor made up well over half of the British population during...