On An Internship

Oct 8, 2016

This post by IHR Digital intern Jaipreet Deo was originally written for Leicester University Student Blogs. You might remember that I started an internship a couple of weeks ago. I’d just like to comment on a couple of things. Bad things that could happen on an...

Reviews in History – 2000th review out today!

Oct 6, 2016

To mark our 2000th review we have a special Somme centenary piece, centred around a reappraisal of Martin Middlebrook’s classic The First Day on the Somme. How is that that a Lincolnshire poultry farmer changed the course of Somme historiography with his first...

Bibliography of British and Irish History updated (September 2016)

Sep 30, 2016

An update to the Bibliography of British and Irish History was published on 30 September. There are 4,962 new records, some 633 new records relate to Irish history while 240 deal with the history of London, 324 with the history of Scotland and 262...

New reviews: Magic, Confederate cities, Scottish Enlightenment and Capetians

Sep 29, 2016

We start this week with Brian Copenhaver’s Magic in Western Culture: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment, as Francis Young hails a towering achievement in the field of intellectual history (no. 1999). Then we turn to Confederate Cities: The Urban South During the...

Connected Histories – mixed race children in colonial India and Australia

Sep 23, 2016

This post has kindly been written for us by IHR Digital intern Jaipreet Deo. In an effort to pull in works relevant to my dissertation topic, the Connected Histories site provides an easy to navigate search function which looks through many databases and archives....

New reviews: Spanish anarchists, slavery, mercantilism and urban pollution

Sep 22, 2016

We commence this week with Goals and Means: Anarchism, Syndicalism, and Internationalism in the Origins of the Federación Anarquista Ibérica by Jason Garner. Vlad Solomon and the author debate an engagingly-written account of a neglected yet important topic in the...