Mass Observation

David Kynaston has successfully blended MO data with other sources in his popular recent studies of Austerity Britain and Family Britain, and with the release of the Mass Observation Archive online this material has been made far more easily availble to historians....

History On-line bibliographic update – July 2010

The History On-line July bibliographic update is now online. Browse the history books to be published between July-September 2010, or view the latest articles from the leading history journals.

Reviews in History Environmental History Special Issue

Last week saw a special issue of Reviews in History on environmental history, released to coincide with the July 2010 Anglo-American Conference on the same subject. It contains ten new reviews of books covering a variety of aspects of environmental history, including...

The Sir John Neale Prize in Tudor History

The winner of The Sir John Neale Prize in Tudor History for 2010 is Charlotte Panofré with ‘Radical Geneva? The publication of Knox’s First Blast of the Trumpet and Goodman’s How Superior Powers ought to be Obeyd in context’. The article will appear in...

Pollard Prize 2010

The winner of the IHR’s Pollard Prize this year is Julie Mumby with ‘The descent of family land in later Anglo-Saxon England’ (originally given to the Earlier Middle Ages seminar). The runner up was Antonia Fitzpatrick with ‘Mendicant order...

Correspondence of two Irish clergymen in Rome

The correspondence of Cardinal Paul Cullen and Archbishop Tobias Kirby is part of a digitisation project by the Pontifical Irish College in Rome. The collection of letters sheds light on Irish social and political history as well as ecclesiastical history. A highlight...