New Reviews: Middle Ages, Mexican conservatism, smell and prohibition

Our featured piece this week is on The Modern Origins of the Early Middle Ages by Ian Wood. Paul Fouracre and the author discuss a thoroughly researched and written tour de force (no. 1650, with response here). Next up is Benjamin Smith’s The Roots of Conservatism in...

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: Edward I, empire and race, Weimar and polio

New reviews: Edward I, empire and race, Weimar and polio

Off to Edinburgh this weekend, just as things are hotting up in the independence campaign. However, as all those who know him will vouch, your deputy editor shies away from political controversy at all times, and my visit is solely a cultural one to take in a little...