Pickering and Chatto have published the book, Ellen Terry, Spheres of Influence, a collection of essays that explores the influence of the actress as well as the cultural significance of her daughter Edith Craig (1869–1947) and her son Edward Gordon Craig (1872–1966),...
The journal Victorian Studies has published a series of articles under the title Forum on evidence and interprestation in the digital age. [1] Andrew Stauffer, in his introduction, quotes a comment from the Daily News, 1869…. Must we not pity the historians of...
Lancaster University Friday 30th November, 2012 Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are becoming increasingly used by historians, archaeologists, literary scholars, classicists and others with an interest in humanities geographies. Take-up has been hampered by a...
On 13th November the IHR’s annual Creighton Lecture will be given by Professor Quentin Skinner, on Milton as a theorist of liberty. Quentin Skinner is well known as a historian of political thought and has written extensively on major figures such as Hobbes and...
Ireland has a dramatic and unusual population history, with overall population declining dramatically from 8.2 million to 6.5 million between 1841 and 1851 and then declining gradually and almost continuously to 4.5 million in 1961. The quote is from an article [1] in...
British History Online is currently digitising the inventory volumes of the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. These volumes contain some images which appear to be copyright to individuals. We will make all reasonable efforts to contact...
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