A Novel Approaches Prelude (2): Theories of historical fiction

 Georg Lukacs The Marxist literary theorist Georg Lukács is generally regarded as the most influential critic of historical fiction and his work the basis from which later literary theorists begin their theoretical paradigms. His thesis entitled The Historical...

The examination and torture of Guy Fawkes

The gruesome fate of Guy Fawkes after the failure of the Gunpowder Plot can be traced in detail in the early modern sources published through British History Online. The richest of these is the Calendar of State Papers Domestic for the reign of James I, which begins,...

A Novel Approaches prelude: A Brief History of Historical Fiction

In late November the IHR will be hosting two interlinked events on the topic of academic history and historical fiction. The conference (17-18 November) and virtual conference (21-25 November) is entitled Novel approaches: from academic history to historical fiction....

Bibliography on Swiss History (BSH) available online

All issues of the Bibliography of Swiss History/Bibliographie de l’histoire suisse are now available online. The BSH volumes 1913-1974 have been scanned, tagged, and uploaded. The digitization was carried out with the agreement of the Swiss History Association,...

Plus ça change

The recent bank bail-out is still fresh in the public mind, as shown by the Occupy London campaign. A look at volume XII(2) of English Historical Documents reveals that bank bail-outs are nothing new. Document 62 is an article in The Economist from December 1890, in...

"I’m not a digital historian, but.."

One noticeable oddity in the first few sessions of the new Digital History seminar has been the slight reluctance amongst some scholars to consider themselves a “digital historian.” Just as one sometimes hears the phrase “I’m not a feminist,...