Sex and the Servants

The often confused and transgressive relationships between upstairs and downstairs have been a perennial literary subject, but the ways in which they have been depicted have changed significantly over time.Kristina Straub’s new work, Domestic Affairs: Intimacy,...

Historical Research – new articles online

Three new Historical Research articles have been published on Early View:Administrative efficiency in fourteenth-century England: the delivery of writs based on evidence from the register of Bishop Martival. MICHAEL RAYThe archive of the official of Stow and the...

History of the Carers’ Movement

Anyone interested in the history of the Carers’ Movement should check out last night’s Voluntary Action History seminar by Timothy Cook, now available as a podcast on the IHR website.The History of the Carers’ Movement: A Remarkably Successful Story. Why?...

The End is Nigh?

Over the last two decades environmental history has become markedly more popular, both in terms of the number of books and articles published in this area and in the extent to which its concerns have begun to inform the discipline as a whole.As a taster for the...

New journals added to RHS Bibliography search list

Currently 612 journals are checked regularly for material relevant to the Bibliography. The Routledge journal Sport in History has been added to the list of those regularly searched titles. Recent special issues of the journal have covered topics such as the British...