"Radio Times" featuring early television available online

Radio Times for the period 1936-1939 is available online. The relevant sections covering television are available as searchable PDF files and includes details of the programmes available to watch at the time. For instance on Christmas Day 1938 one could view...

History wars – when history matters

This week on Reviews in History we review History at the Crossroads. Australians and the Past by Paul Ashton and Paula Hamilton, a book which arose out of the authors’ study of the way Australians think about and use their past.Though the histories of all...

New image for Historical Research

The latest issue of Historical Research is now available (February 2011, vol. 84, no. 223). The issue features a brand new cover design and a great range of articles from 13th century church government through to Red Cross neutrality in WWII via the Stuart court,...

The Mediterranean – a flourishing historical concept

Focusing on the Mediterranean as a historical concept (as opposed to a strictly geographical one) was was the brainchild of one of the pioneers of ‘total’ history, Fernand Braudel, French historian and one of the most prominent members of the second...

New Academic Editor of Bibliography of British and Irish History

We are delighted to announce that Professor Stephen Taylor of the University of Reading has taken over as Academic Editor of BBIH. His research focuses on the political and religious history of England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and his work with...

Virtual issues from Historical Research

Historical Research is pleased to present its first Virtual Issue – a selection of papers exploring the History of India. The issue will be freely available for the first thirty days and then will be available to subscribers in the usual way. The intention is to...