John Foster, Muir Houston and Chris Madigan examine employment relations, sectarianism and class formation among Catholic and Protestant Irish immigrants in 19th century Clydeside and Lanarkshire. New article available on Historical Research Early View.
The story of nudity and nudism in the 20th century is a fascinating one, encompassing not just badminton-playing eccentric innocents, but Weimar Republic libertarians and anarchist radicals.Despite this (or maybe because of it?), there has been a lack of serious...
The History SPOT [seminar podcasts and online training] is one of the first pilot projects to be initiated by IHR Digital. It will bring together the IHR’s renowned research seminars and research training courses in one place. With the increasing popularity of...
We have now reached the 1000-volume landmark for British History Online. Each of these has been approved by our advisory panel of academics as being a valuable work of history and has been digitised according to the gold standard of text capture: double rekeying by...
Labour party leadership outsider Andy Burnham has garnered some headlines today with the idea of a land value tax, and his claim that it is an idea that goes back to Thomas Paine is given credence in a new book dedicated to the history of the land issues in this...
BARGE records a variety of archival resources relating to refugees who arrived in Britain between 1933 and 1950 and whose papers are located in public or private British collections. Proportionally speaking, Britain received more refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe...
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