Historical Research – new Early View articles published

 The other boys of Kilmichael’: No. 2 Section, ‘C’ Company, Auxiliary Division Royal Irish Constabulary, 28 November 1920 by Andrew Nelson Female barrenness, bodily access and aromatic treatments in seventeenth-century England by Jennifer Evans The harassment of Isaac...

The Annual Pollard Prize 2014 – closing date Friday 30 May

Entries are invited for this year’s Annual Pollard Prize (sponsored by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.) awarded for the best paper presented at an IHR seminar by a postgraduate student or by a researcher within one year of completing the PhD. First prize Fast...

Historical Research – February 2014 (vol. 87, no. 235)

‘To[o] much eating stifles the child’: fat bodies and reproduction in early modern England. Sarah Toulalan Other contents: Hiding the truth: exegetical discussions of Abraham’s lie from Hugh of St. Victor to Stephen Langton. Emily Corran Dorset in the period of...

Historical Research – November 2013 (vol. 86, no. 234)

The latest issue of Historical Research (vol. 86, no. 234) is now available, and includes the following articles: Stormont’s response to American racial segregation in Northern Ireland during the Second World War by Simon Topping (FREE ACCESS) Bishops and deans:...

Historical Research – new early view articles

‘They seem to have all died out’: witches and witchcraft in Lark Rise to Candleford and the English countryside, c.1830–1930. Thomas Waters Flora Thompson’s account of the English countryside during the 1880s–1890s – Lark Rise to Candleford – continues to...

Pollard Prize

The Annual Pollard Prize 2013 (sponsored by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.)The Pollard Prize is awarded annually for the best paper presented at an Institute of Historical Research seminar by a postgraduate student or by a researcher within one year of completing the...