The uses of emptiness

Jun 8, 2015

This post has kindly been written for us by Jennifer Keating, RHS Marshall Fellow, Institute of Historical Research How is emptiness made, and what purposes does it serve? What cultural, material and natural work goes into maintaining nothingness? And why have a...

Curriers’ Company London History Essay Prize winner 2015

May 11, 2015

                    This post has been kindly written for us by Ian Stone, Isobel Thornley Junior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research. I first saw the Curriers’ Company London history essay prize...

Objects of Charity: Britain and the Development of a Humanitarian Politics, 1690-1748

May 1, 2015

This post has kindly been written for us by Catherine Arnold, Mellon Dissertation Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research. When does a state’s treatment of its subjects warrant foreign intervention? As we do today, men and women in early eighteenth-century...

Jacobitism and the three Stuart kingdoms

Apr 27, 2015

  This post has been written for us by Ralph Stevens, Jacobite Studies Trust Postdoctoral Fellow at the IHR, @HistoryRalph, ralph.stevens@ucd.ie This coming September will mark the three-hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the 1715 Jacobite Rebellion, the...

Spiritual Soldiers: Masculinity and the Body in the British Indian Army, 1900-1940

Apr 10, 2015

This post has kindly been written for us by Kate Imy, Mellon Dissertation Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research. Contemporary debates about “religion” often emphasize that which is supposedly “irrational,” metaphysical or anciently doctrinal, ignoring the...

Witchcraft and Medicine in Modern France

Feb 23, 2015

Will Pooley is a Past & Present Junior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research. He blogs at https://williamgpooley.wordpress.com and you can follow him on Twitter @willpooley. I’m not the first person to point out that witchcraft exerted a...