History Day 2016

Oct 17, 2016

What is History Day? And how can it help your research? Historical research requires a rich ecosystem of libraries, archives, associations, publishers and other organisations to flourish. Part of the process of becoming a historian, or understaking research with a...

New reviews: Russian right, British nukes, John Owen and Eamon de Valera

Oct 13, 2016

We start this week with The Radical Right in Late Imperial Russia: Dreams of a True Fatherland? by George Gilbert, as Geoffrey Hosking and the author discuss a good general guide (no. 2004, with response here). Next we turn to Jonathan Hogg’s British Nuclear Culture:...

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...