Filling the Gaps: Livery Company Archives and the ROLLCO Project

This post was kindly written for us by Katie George, archivist of The Salters’ Company, with the help of the CMH’s very own Mark Merry. September sees another new update to the Records of London’s Livery Companies Online (ROLLCO) project, with the publication of...

New Reviews: Middle Ages, Mexican conservatism, smell and prohibition

Our featured piece this week is on The Modern Origins of the Early Middle Ages by Ian Wood. Paul Fouracre and the author discuss a thoroughly researched and written tour de force (no. 1650, with response here). Next up is Benjamin Smith’s The Roots of Conservatism in...

Researching the Crimean War using Connected Histories

This post was kindly written for us by Caitlin Brown, one of our interns via the Leicester University / IHR Digital programme. I decided to use Connected Histories to research an area that I knew something about, but that I would like to investigate more. I picked the...

The Historical Aspects of Dilipad: Challenges and Opportunities

This post is from one of the historians working the Dilipad project, Luke Blaxill: The Dilipad project is on one hand exciting because it will allow us to investigate ambitious research questions that our team of historians, social and political scientists, and...

Essay Prize in London History – deadline approaching!

A prize of £1,000 will be awarded for the best essay by an early career or doctoral researcher on the history of London, in a new competition sponsored by the Curriers’ Company in association with the IHR and The London Journal. Essays may be on any aspect of the...