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‘British and Irish Furniture Makers Online’: new ways of seeing the past
Laurie Lindey introduces new developments to the ‘British and Irish Furniture Makers Online’ (BIFMO), a research project of the IHR and the Furniture History Society.
What’s On? Special events coming up this spring
New approaches to writing history, the 2019 Hobsbawm Memorial Lecture and more!
Still Going Places: Gender and Medieval Studies
Victoria Blud, Diane Heath and Einat Klafter share their reflections on medieval gender studies and its continuing evolution.
Spotlight
Teaching BAME History as British History: What does it have to do with Brexit?
How do we define British History on the national curriculum? And what does this have to do with Brexit?
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Still Going Places: Gender and Medieval Studies
Victoria Blud, Diane Heath and Einat Klafter share their reflections on medieval gender studies and its continuing evolution.
Queer History and the Holocaust
Queer victims rarely feature in the historiography of the Holocaust. Anna Hájková explores current debates in Jewish and Holocaust History.
Risk or reward? An eighteenth-century tontine
Diane Clements explores the workings of an eighteenth-century ‘tontine’, offering new insight on attitudes to private investment and identity.
Danny Dyer’s Right Royal Family: Episode 2 Recap
Paul Dryburgh returns with his take on the second part of Danny Dyer’s ‘Right Royal Family’. Spoiler alert: he loved it.
Publications News
Still Going Places: Gender and Medieval Studies
Victoria Blud, Diane Heath and Einat Klafter share their reflections on medieval gender studies and its continuing evolution.
This month in ‘Reviews in History’
Our highlight this month on Reviews in History is a fascinating discussion between Scott Newton and David Edgerton of the latter’s The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: a Twentieth Century History.
Reviews in History: ‘In Pursuit of Civility’, by Keith Thomas
In this extract from the IHR’s ‘Reviews in History’, Dr Joan Redmond reviews ‘In Pursuit of Civility: Manners and Civilisation in Early Modern England’ (Yale 2018), by Keith Thomas.
The market imperfections of business, shoppers and consumerism: Esther Peterson & the legacies of the National Consumers’ League
By Lawrence Black Much recent work on consumerism, from Frank Trentmann on things, to Bethany Moreton’s brilliant study of Walmart, through to Robert Miller’s anthropological work, has creatively and productively entangled shopping, politics, everyday life and the...
Research & Resources News
‘British and Irish Furniture Makers Online’: new ways of seeing the past
Laurie Lindey introduces new developments to the ‘British and Irish Furniture Makers Online’ (BIFMO), a research project of the IHR and the Furniture History Society.
New, free education resources from Layers of London
Layers of London has created free teacher and student packs to support Key Stage 2 and 3 students and help teachers create their own class collections.
Christmas Top Ten from the Bibliography of British and Irish History
Editor Sara Charles takes you through the ‘Christmas Top 10’ featuring new entries to the Bibliography of British and Irish History.
Is history repeating itself? Timely new additions to the Bibliography of British and Irish History
Does history repeat itself? The new entries to the Bibliography of British and Irish History have striking contemporary relevance.