Film and the Historian: from BUFVC

The British Universities Film and Video Council has a proven track record in delivering high-quality and contextualised digital resources. Their News On Screen is the leading resource for the study of newsfilm and cinemagazines documenting British newsfilm production,...

Archiving the web – a new partnership with the British Library

The IHR Digital team are delighted to announce an innovative new venture in partnership with the British Library. A new advisory panel of historians has been convened to work with the BL’s web archiving team in developing policy for identifying web content most...

Philhellenism across the ages

This week on Reviews we have a welcome reappraisal of a neglected classic, William McGrew’s Land and Revolution in Modern Greece, 1800-81, first published in 1985. Our reviewer Eugenia Russell reckons this to be the most important monograph on the early modern history...

Historical Research August 2010 (vol. 83, no. 221)

Highlights from the latest issue of Historical Research include:Anne Duggan on Roman, canon and common law in 12th-century England; Benjamin Wild on the jewel accounts of King Henry III; a look at the Free Christian Union, 1867–70, by Michael Ledger-Lomas and at war...

Irish immigrants in Scotland’s shipyards and coalfields

John Foster, Muir Houston and Chris Madigan examine employment relations, sectarianism and class formation among Catholic and Protestant Irish immigrants in 19th century Clydeside and Lanarkshire. New article available on Historical Research Early View.

The Naked Truth

The story of nudity and nudism in the 20th century is a fascinating one, encompassing not just badminton-playing eccentric innocents, but Weimar Republic libertarians and anarchist radicals.Despite this (or maybe because of it?), there has been a lack of serious...