This post has kindly been written for us by Jennifer Kain, Alan Pearsall Fellow in Naval and Maritime History 2016-17, and now a Research Associate of the IHR As I enter the final stage of my year-long junior fellowship at the IHR I wanted to acknowledge my benefactor...
This post has kindly been written for us by Kathryn Olivarius, Past & Present Fellow. No champion of American slavery had a larger pulpit or did more articulate and forward proslavery ideology than Senator John C. Calhoun, the former Vice-President and darling of...
This post has kindly been written for us by Joseph Harley, EHS Postan Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research. Since I was an undergraduate student I have been interested in researching poverty. The poor made up well over half of the British population during...
This post has kindly been written for us by Aashique Iqbal, Royal Historical Society Marshall Fellow, IHR The first aeroplane flown by the first squadron of the Indian Air Force (IAF), on its formation in 1933, was the Westland Wapiti. The Wapiti, nicknamed the...
This post has kindly been written for us by Benedict G. E. Wiedemann MA (UCL), Thornley Fellow, IHR. ‘A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer’ Seneca the Younger When is a gift not a gift? Simple. When either...
This post has kindly been written for us by Dr Alice Dolan, Economic History Society Anniversary Fellow. My postdoctoral project comes directly out of my PhD thesis which was a social history of linen during the long 18th century. Linen was used by rich and poor for...
Welcome to the inaugural blog post in a series promoting the Low Countries collection in the IHR Library. My name is Stijn van Rossem and I took up a one-year post-doctoral fellowship in March. In the months to come, I will explore and promote the remarkable holdings...
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