New reviews: Unemployment, Christian missions, Latin law and Galileo

Oct 1, 2015

We start this week with Unemployment, Welfare, and Masculine Citizenship: ‘So Much Honest Poverty’ in Britain, 1870-1930 by Marjorie Levine-Clark. Nicole Longpré and the author discuss a book which will appeal to those working in fields across the history...

DIRECTOR’S SEMINARS – AUTUMN 2015

Sep 30, 2015

Wolfson Room II, IHR 2-4pm We hope you will be able to attend our programme of Director’s seminars for autumn, at which the 2015-16 junior research fellows will present their research. All are welcome. Tea and coffee will be served. 7 October Jennifer Keating –...

Connected histories – the history of Essex

Sep 24, 2015

This post was kindly written for us by IHR intern Alex Thompson. Connected Histories is a website made for online research of a variety of different topics ranging between 1500 and 1900. When typing in and searching for a particular topic, the search will include...
Historical research in London archives

Historical research in London archives

Sep 18, 2015

This post was written by Charlie Berry, a doctoral student at the Institute of Historical Research and cross-posted from the History Collections website.  As a research student, a lot of my time is spent beavering away in libraries and archives. My thesis topic,...

New reviews: US political history, Huguenots, money and Istanbul

Sep 17, 2015

This week  we begin with Donald Critchlow’s American Political History: A Very Short Introduction, as Mark Power Smith and the author debate a concise, readable narrative of American political history (no. 1831, with response here). Then we turn to Experiencing Exile:...