New Historical Research articles

‘To become again our brethren’: desertion and community during the American Revolutionary War, 1775–83 by Jonathan Chandler Desertion from active military service has always been a contentious action, especially in times of war. Deserters in the eighteenth century...

New Historical Research article

The 1553 succession crisis reconsidered. Paulina Kewes This article offers a new perspective on the context and significance of the 1553 succession crisis precipitated by the Protestant Edward VI’s abortive bid to exclude his Catholic sister Mary in favour of...

Pollard Prize 2017

    The Annual Pollard Prize – named in honour of the IHR’s founding director A. F. Pollard (1869-1948) – was established in 1999, initially as a termly prize for the best paper given at an IHR seminar by a postgraduate or early career...

November issue of Historical Research

Historical Research, vol. lxxxix, no 246 Contents: ‘A mission he bore – to Duke William he came’: Harold Godwineson’s Commentumand his covert ambitions. Ad F. J. van Kempen The chronology of the de Mortemer family of Wigmore, c.1075–1185, and the consolidation...