We begin this week with Laura King’s Family Men: Fatherhood and Masculinity in Britain, 1914-1960. Helen McCarthy and the author discuss a beautifully researched, nuanced and ambitious book (no. 1778, with response here). Next up is The Jacobean Grand Tour: Early...
This post has kindly been written for us by Jennifer Keating, RHS Marshall Fellow, Institute of Historical Research How is emptiness made, and what purposes does it serve? What cultural, material and natural work goes into maintaining nothingness? And why have a...
We begin this week with The Courtly and Commercial Art of the Wycliffite Bible by Kathleen E. Kennedy. Eyal Poleg and the author discuss a book which is an important part of the ‘rehabilitation movement’ of the Wycliffite Bible (no. 1774, with author’s response here)....
This post has kindly been written for us by Professor Richard Hoyle, Director and General Editor of the Victoria County History. One thing which is pretty certain is that everyone who attends this year’s local history conference sponsored by the IHR and VCH lived...
This post has kindly been written for us by Dr Sian Barber, author of Using Film as a Source (MUP, 2015), the first in the IHR Research Guides Series. What is the value of studying film? How can feature films tell us anything about the time in which they are made? Why...
First up this week is The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Christianity, as Thomas O’Loughlin and editor John Arnold discuss a new introduction to a vast field of research (no. 1769, with response here). Then we turn to George Goodwin’s Fatal Rivalry, Flodden 1513:...
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