Connected histories – the history of Essex

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...

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

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:...

New reviews: Legal history, slavery, tabloids and consorts

We start this week with David Chan Smith’s Sir Edward Coke and the Reformation of the Laws: Religion, Politics and Jurisprudence, 1578–1616, as Daniel Gosling and the author discuss an impressive and readable legal history drawing on a huge range of legal cases and...

New IHR Digital project to be funded by AHRC

IHR Digital is very pleased to announce that we have been awarded funding by the Arts and Humanities Research Council for a new project called the Thesaurus of British and Irish History as SKOS (TOBIAS). The IHR will publish as a web ontology the Bibliography of...