1000 volumes on British History Online

We have now reached the 1000-volume landmark for British History Online. Each of these has been approved by our advisory panel of academics as being a valuable work of history and has been digitised according to the gold standard of text capture: double rekeying by...

A Question of Land

Labour party leadership outsider Andy Burnham has garnered some headlines today with the idea of a land value tax, and his claim that it is an idea that goes back to Thomas Paine is given credence in a new book dedicated to the history of the land issues in this...

A guest post from our American intern

As a digital publications intern at the Institute of Historical Research for the summer, I was given the opportunity to work on several exciting and diverse projects, many of them pertaining to the IHR website and the various databases. I can honestly say that there...

Britain, the ‘German revolution’, and the fall of France, 1870/1

William Mulligan contends that the revolutionary event in 1870, as far as British foreign policy was concerned, was the collapse of French power, rather than the unification of Germany. By focusing on the latter and Anglo-German relations generally, historians have...