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 Historical Research articles

Getting out of jail: suicide, escape and release in late medieval and Renaissance Bologna. Trevor Dean This article discusses and contextualizes a unique document: the record of an investigation into a death, apparently by suicide, in the communal prison in Bologna in...

New Historical Research articles

Eugenics, socialists and the labour movement in Britain, 1865–1940. David Redvaldsen This article offers a comprehensive survey of relations between the labour movement, socialists and official eugenic opinion from the late Victorian era to the Second World War....

May issue of Historical Research

Historical Research, vol. xc, no. 248 Contents: Butlers and dish-bearers in Anglo-Saxon courts: household officers at the royal table. Alban Gautier ‘The Gallaunts of Fawey’: a case study of Fowey during the Hundred Years’ War, c.1337–1399. S. J. Drake A...