MA Landscape and Garden History

Interested in gardens as landscapes?  Take a look at the new MA Landscape and Garden History at the IHR. The course starts this Autumn, running every Thursday (10am-5pm) with the first session on 2 October.  The lecturers are all well-respected academics in their...

Latest from Reviews in History

We have all manner of treats in store for you this week, but before that, a rather London-centric question. The editor of the wonderful Bibliography of British and Irish History, who is a longstanding and long-suffering colleague of mine, claims to be able to walk...

Locating London’s Past wins 2014 BSECS Prize for Digital Resources

‘Locating London’s Past’ has been awarded the 2014 British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (BSECS) Prize for Digital Resources. Sponsored by Adam Matthew Digital, this prestigious award promotes the highest standards in the development, utility and presentation...

Latest from ‘Reviews in History’

Happy new year everyone – I hope you all had a good festive period, and that 2014 is panning out well so far. I’m always quite pleased to be back to sobriety / normality (or what passes for it at the University of London) at this time of year – when there’s no...

British History Online: End of an Era

In November, behind the scenes, there was an important change at the Institute. Bruce Tate, the Manager of British History Online, left the project after 11 years. You may know that this summer BHO celebrated 10 years of operation, from which you will see that Bruce...

Historical Research – November 2013 (vol. 86, no. 234)

The latest issue of Historical Research (vol. 86, no. 234) is now available, and includes the following articles: Stormont’s response to American racial segregation in Northern Ireland during the Second World War by Simon Topping (FREE ACCESS) Bishops and deans:...