In an earlier post about the sexual mores on board transportation ships, I wondered what might have happened to the women when they arrived in New South Wales. Some of them undoubtedly were pregnant but presumably all the sailors they had partnered with during the...
British History in the Long 18th Century30 March 2011Sarah Lloyd (Hertfordshire)Ephemeral Lives: On writing a ticket-centred history of 18th-century BritainTickets: lottery tickets, theatre tickets, turnpike tickets, admission tickets and so forth. In the eighteenth...
Steven Pinker’s new book about the decline of violence has been getting some media coverage in the past few weeks. I have been looking forward to reading the book for quite a while, and I was encouraged to see a positive review by the political scientist David...
Sport and Leisure History 23 May 2011Nick Piercey (University College London)Football Club Membership in Rotterdam in 1914: Walking through the Historic City in Search of the Individual In one week of August 1914 the lives of ordinary people began to change as war...
With the launch of History SPOT the Institute of Historical Research have also launched a brand new handbook written by our own Dr Mark Merry on the subject of designing databases for historical research. Mark is the primary tutor on our various Databases course and...
British History in the Long 18th Century8 June 2011Isabelle Cosgrave (Exeter University)A Quaker convert and the writing of fiction: the case of Amelia OpieAmelia Opie was a prominent English author who wrote novels, short stories, and poems between 1790 and 1834. ...
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