Tempted though I was to blog this week about Evelyn Lord’s salaciously titled The Hell-Fire Clubs: Sex, Satanism and Secret Societies (reviewed here by Jason Kelly) I’ve decide instead to take the moral high ground, and point readers towards a book on...
Radio 4’s Today programme (08:57) discussed the recent conference celebrating the 1709 biography of Shakespeare by Nicholas Rowe. How many studies of Shakespeare are there? From the RHS Bibliography there are 780 references, everything from Rowe’s...
The IHR is collaborating with the universities of Sheffield and Hertfordshire, and King’s College London on an exciting new project, funded under the JISC eContent programme. ‘Connected Histories’ will create an innovative search engine for a wide...
The 19th century was ‘a period of energetic marital non-conformity amongst couples of all social classes’, at least according to Tanya Evans’ review of Ginger Frost’s Living in Sin: Cohabiting as Husband and Wife in Nineteenth-Century...
The Bibliography of British and Irish History, a partnership between the Royal Historical Society, the Institute of Historical Research, and Brepols Publishers, will replace the Royal Historical Society Bibliography on 1 January 2010. Free trials of the new...
The latest IHR podcast from the Voluntary Action History seminar series deals with the way charities and their members acted towards destitute pregnant women and new mothers in England and Australia prior to the First World War.Fashioning Mothers of the Next...
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