Free trials of the new Bibliography of British and Irish History

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...

Charity, Pregnant Women and New Mothers

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...

Daily Life in the Warsaw Ghetto

Who Will Write Our History? Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto, by Saul Kassow, tells the amazing story of the Oyneg Shabes, the archive compiled by Polish Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Second World War. This sought to chronicle the everyday...

Pseudohistory – where’s the evidence?

Reviews in History features an interesting debate this week on the subject of pseudohistory, with Douglas Allchin reviewing Ron Fritze’s new book Invented Knowledge: False History, Fake Science and Pseudo-religions. In it Fritze details a variety of examples of...

Open Access publishing

I note a very informative article that has just appeared in the Times Higher Educational Supplement. It covers a lot of ground, and sets out very clearly the competing visions of the future of scholarly publishing that are involved.