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...
As a digital publications intern at the Institute of Historical Research for the summer, I was given the opportunity to work on several exciting and diverse projects, many of them pertaining to the IHR website and the various databases. I can honestly say that there...
William Mulligan contends that the revolutionary event in 1870, as far as British foreign policy was concerned, was the collapse of French power, rather than the unification of Germany. By focusing on the latter and Anglo-German relations generally, historians have...
Neil Younger’s article on ‘Securing the monarchical republic: the remaking of the lord lieutenancies in 1585’, joint winner of the 2009 Neale Prize, has now been published online in Historical Research Early View.
Oliver Rafferty examines the ironic contours of the relationship between the Catholic Church and the British empire in the period 1800–1921. He reveals not only how the Vatican appreciated British government largesse but also that successive popes were quite prepared...
We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it.
