Digital History 14 June 2011Professor Tim Hitchcock (Hertfordshire)Text Mining the Old Bailey Proceedings The Old Bailey Online is probably one of the most successful web-based projects produced in Britain thus far. Based on the proceedings from London’s central...
Franco-British History5 January 2012Rosemary Sweet (University of Leicester)British Travellers in Italy in the 18th centurySummary: Both the Georgians and the Victorians were fascinated by Italy, but they saw the country with very different eyes. Eighteenth-century...
Just a quick advertisement for our upcoming workshop specifically designed for up and coming authors of historical fiction: How to Get the History Right in your Historical Fiction: A workshop for authors. As you may be aware, last year the IHR hosted a conference...
Sports History31 October 2011Dr Dean Allen (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)The Race for Supremacy: The Politics of ‘White’ Sport in South Africa, 1880-1910 When in 2010 South Africa became the first African nation to host the Fifa world cup...
Metropolitan History26 October 2011Joseph de Sapio (Oxford)Worse than Cimmerian Darkness: fog and the representation of Victorian London What do tourists say about London in the nineteenth century? Representations of the London fog are common in the nineteenth...
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