The Naked Truth

The story of nudity and nudism in the 20th century is a fascinating one, encompassing not just badminton-playing eccentric innocents, but Weimar Republic libertarians and anarchist radicals.Despite this (or maybe because of it?), there has been a lack of serious...

1000 volumes on British History Online

We have now reached the 1000-volume landmark for British History Online. Each of these has been approved by our advisory panel of academics as being a valuable work of history and has been digitised according to the gold standard of text capture: double rekeying by...

A Question of Land

Labour party leadership outsider Andy Burnham has garnered some headlines today with the idea of a land value tax, and his claim that it is an idea that goes back to Thomas Paine is given credence in a new book dedicated to the history of the land issues in this...

A guest post from our American intern

As a digital publications intern at the Institute of Historical Research for the summer, I was given the opportunity to work on several exciting and diverse projects, many of them pertaining to the IHR website and the various databases. I can honestly say that there...