My previous post on the range of history material being published opened with the early modern view of masculinity and men crying. Go back a couple of hundred years and it seems men were allowed to cry, and at least if you were a bishop, the act was deemed...
We start off this week with another in our occasional interview series, with Daniel Snowman talking to Professor Roy Foster about his recent work on the human dimension behind the Easter Rising, Vivid Faces (no. 1745). Next we have Thomas Dekker and the Culture of...
This post originally appeared on the Digging into Linked Parliamentary Data project blog, and is a guest post by team member Kaspar Beelen. Problem. Notwithstanding the recent optimization of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) techniques, the conversion from image to...
More fruits of that pressure now, anyway, as we have a special feature on biographer John Campbell. Adam Timmins looks back over his previous work (no. 1740) as a prelude to Robert Saunder’s examination of his latest effort, Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life (no....
This post has kindly been written for us by, Dr Karen Attar, Rare Books Librarian, Senate House Library. The Centre for Metropolitan History at the Institute of Historical Research and the Imperial War Museum are holding a major conference on 20-21 March that will...
This is a guest post by Evelijn Martinius, highlighting findings from her internship on the project in January 2015: Researchers often set out to test their hypothesis, but the question I would like to pose in the post is: how do they come to frame their hypothesis?...
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