Charity, Pregnant Women and New Mothers

The latest IHR podcast from the Voluntary Action History seminar series deals with the way charities and their members acted towards destitute pregnant women and new mothers in England and Australia prior to the First World War.Fashioning Mothers of the Next...

Daily Life in the Warsaw Ghetto

Who Will Write Our History? Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto, by Saul Kassow, tells the amazing story of the Oyneg Shabes, the archive compiled by Polish Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Second World War. This sought to chronicle the everyday...

Pseudohistory – where’s the evidence?

Reviews in History features an interesting debate this week on the subject of pseudohistory, with Douglas Allchin reviewing Ron Fritze’s new book Invented Knowledge: False History, Fake Science and Pseudo-religions. In it Fritze details a variety of examples of...

Open Access publishing

I note a very informative article that has just appeared in the Times Higher Educational Supplement. It covers a lot of ground, and sets out very clearly the competing visions of the future of scholarly publishing that are involved.

Free online access to our most popular articles

Free online access is available for six of the most popular articles from the last five volumes of Historical Research (2005-9):The shiring of East Anglia: an alternative hypothesis. LUCY MARTENA parliament full of rats? Piers Plowman and the Good Parliament of 1376....