Who were London’s ‘Ladies of Quality and Distinction’?

Who were London’s ‘Ladies of Quality and Distinction’?

Sep 26, 2018

By Janette Bright ‘Ladies of Quality and Distinction’, a new exhibition at London’s Foundling Museum, traces the history of women’s involvement in the creation and running of the Foundling Hospital—from the twenty-one mid-eighteenth century ‘Ladies’, who signed...
Women’s Suffrage at Home and Away

Women’s Suffrage at Home and Away

Apr 30, 2018

By Sara Charles Although the history of the women’s suffrage movement (and particularly the Suffragettes) often focusses on London, there was huge amount of activity throughout the U.K. and further afield in the latter part of the nineteenth and early twentieth...
Competition Open: Pollard Prize 2018

Competition Open: Pollard Prize 2018

Apr 9, 2018

Entries are invited for this year’s Pollard Prize (sponsored by Wiley) awarded for the best paper presented at an IHR seminar 2017-18 by a postgraduate student or by a researcher within one year of completing the PhD. First prize Fast track publication in the...

The Food and Drinke of Samuel Pepys

Nov 23, 2017

This week is Being Human, the annual festival of the humanities and the arts – this year on the theme of ‘Lost and Found’. For its contribution, the IHR takes you back to the 1660s, and the loss of Charles II’s warship, The London, which sank in the Thames estuary in...

BBIH and the occult

Oct 24, 2017

As 31 October looms we all know what that means, no not Halloween, but History Day. And of course the theme this year is the occult and all things that go bump in the night. BBIH is a big supporter of History Day –  it’s well organised with lots of participants...