Researching the Crimean War using Connected Histories
This post was kindly written for us by Caitlin Brown, one of our interns via the Leicester University / IHR Digital programme. I decided to use Connected Histories to research an area that I knew something about, but that I would like to investigate more. I picked the...The Historical Aspects of Dilipad: Challenges and Opportunities
This post is from one of the historians working the Dilipad project, Luke Blaxill: The Dilipad project is on one hand exciting because it will allow us to investigate ambitious research questions that our team of historians, social and political scientists, and...New reviews: Britain and Hollywood, early modern women, early modern heresy, early modern authority
Just back from the other side – no, not a near death experience, but a quick visit to the almost finished new look IHR! There’s a smell of fresh paint, the books are in place, and the librarians have the thousand-yard stares that come with weeks of twelve-hour days...New reviews: Archbishop Pole, post-war children, scholastic thought and Charles Darwin
First up this week we have Archbishop Pole by John Edwards, as Francis Young and the author discuss a magnificent example of first-rate historical scholarship (no. 1642, with response here). Next we turn to Lost Freedom: The Landscape of the Child and the British...