From Wapitis to Vampires: Indian Air Force aircraft and the politics of decolonisation 1933-1950

Feb 12, 2017

This post has kindly been written for us by Aashique Iqbal, Royal Historical Society Marshall Fellow, IHR The first aeroplane flown by the first squadron of the Indian Air Force (IAF), on its formation in 1933, was the Westland Wapiti. The Wapiti, nicknamed the...

New reviews: Lincoln, Enlightenment lawyers, sleep and abbots

Feb 9, 2017

We start this week with Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery: The Other Thirteenth Amendment and the Struggle to Save the Union by Daniel Crofts. Phillip Magness and the author discuss a book which carefully grounds Lincoln’s presidency in evidence (no. 2063,...

New reviews: C of E historians, East German memory, Irish biography and medieval Ravenna

Feb 2, 2017

We commence this issue with a review of James Kirby’s Historians and the Church of England. Alexander Hutton and the author discuss a rewarding, diligent, and empathetic excursion into a lost world of Victorian intellectual history (no. 2059, with response here). Next...

Casting Churchill

Jan 30, 2017

The IHR Wohl Library now offers access to the digitized archive of the private papers of Sir Winston Churchill, both within the library and remotely to holders of a membership card. The archive, which contains some 800,000 items, is an extraordinarily rich resource,...

New reviews: Civil War moderates, pre-industrial local history, disability and Algeria

Jan 26, 2017

First up this week we have Apostle of Union: A Political Biography of Edward Everett by Matthew Mason. Daniel Crofts and the author discuss a timely biography depicting a persistent moderate who deplored North-South sectional polarization (no. 2055, with response...

Churchill Archive Offsite Access

Jan 24, 2017

The IHR Library recently acquired access to the vast digital Churchill Archive. It can be consulted within the library, but IHR Library members can also access this collection of over 800,000 items remotely. Access is simple, and is detailed below, but please speak to...