Royal Historical Society Alexander Prize

Congratulations to Felicity Hill whose Historical Research article  ‘Magna Carta, canon law and pastoral care: excommunication and the church’s publication of the charter’ (Historical Research, lxxxix (2016)), was selected as runner up in the Royal Historical...

August issue of Historical Research

  Historical Research, vol. xc, no. 249 Contents: Getting out of jail: suicide, escape and release in late medieval and Renaissance Bologna. Trevor Dean The 1553 succession crisis reconsidered. Paulina Kewes Whose city? Civic government and episcopal power in...

Pollard and Neale Prize winners 2017

Congratulations to the winners of the Pollard and Neale prizes: Sir John Neale Prize in Early Modern British History The Neale Prize is awarded annually to a historian in the early stages of his or her career for an essays on a theme related to the history of early...

New Historical Research articles

  Between tension and rapprochement: Sunni-Shi‘ite relations in the pre-modern Ottoman period, with a focus on the eighteenth century by M. Sait Özervarlı The Ottoman empire is known for its ethnically and religiously pluralistic social fabric, but also for...

New IHR research guide on Material Culture

History through Material Culture by Leonie Hannan and Sarah Longair History through material culture is a unique, step-by-step guide for students and researchers who wish to use objects as historical sources. Responding to the significant scholarly interest in...