This year’s Pollard Prize for the best paper given at an IHR seminar by a postgraduate student or researcher within one year of completing the PhD has been won by Cornelis Heere with ‘That racial chasm that yawns eternally in our midst’: the imperial...
The first Historical Research annual plenary lecture sponsored by Wiley will take place at this year’s Anglo-American conference (2 July, 18.00-20.00). We are delighted to have on board Lucy Worsley, Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces, on the theme of...
The Bari charter of privileges of 1132: articulating the culture of a new Norman monarchy by Paul Oldfield This article examines how Roger II, who in 1130 became the first king of Sicily, articulated the culture of a new monarchy to his subjects. It does so through...
Of crofters, Celts and claymores: the Celtic Magazine and the Highland cultural nationalist movement, 1875–88 by Ian B. Stewart This article examines the cultural nationalist movement in the Scottish Highlands during the period 1875–88, through the lens of the Celtic...
Ballot papers and the practice of elections: Britain, France and the United States of America, c.1500–2000, a new Historical Research article by Malcolm Crook and Tom Crook. The humble ballot paper is a defining technology of elections throughout the world. This...
Contents: An unrealized cult? Hagiography and Norman ducal genealogy in twelfth-century England. Ilya Afanasyev Two oaths of the community in 1258. Joshua Hey Bishop William Laud and the parliament of 1626. Mark Parry ‘Now the mask is taken off’: Jacobitism and...
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