We start this week with Michele M. Strong’s Education, Travel and the ‘Civilisation’ of the Victorian Working Classes. Susan Barton recommends an interesting and significant work covering the under-researched topic of educational tourism (no. 1674). Then we turn to...
Josh Cowls reflects on recent developments and our goals towards the end of the project: We are already well past the half-way mark of the project, and exciting new developments mean that our eleven researchers are well on their way to producing high-quality...
This week we start with Francisco Bethencourt’s Racisms: From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century. Panikos Panayi and the author discuss a book which moves the genesis of modern racial biologically determined ideology away from the ‘modern’ period (no. 1670, with...
One of our Amsterdam-based team members, Maarten Marx, is giving a presentation about DiLiPaD at the Talk of Europe Creative Camp on October 8, 2014 in Hilversum, The Netherlands. You can see the slides of Maarten’s talk here. See also...
It’s all change at the moment at the IHR, with a new Director, Professor Lawrence Goldman, starting yesterday, our Events Officer Manjeet leaving (she’s only going across the corridor to the Institute of English Studies – as our receptionist Beresford brilliantly...
This review was kindly written for us by our intern Grace Karrach Wood. My original intention was to use Connected Histories in order to research lunatic asylums during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as this is my dissertation topic and therefore I already...
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