By Sarah Johanesen The early modern historian, Sarah Johanesen, discusses her research on disguise within Catholic culture, and the place of physical deception in anti-papal conflict and intra-Catholic disputes. Sarah’s research recently appeared in her...
The IHR Pollard Prize is awarded annually for the best paper presented at an Institute of Historical Research seminar by a postgraduate student, or by an early career researcher within one year of completing a PhD. The Prize is supported by Oxford University Press,...
By Julie Spraggon February 2020 sees publication of the first issue of a new look Historical Research, now published by Oxford University Press. Historical Research is the IHR’s academic journal, published in February, May, August and November of each year. Here, Dr...
The IHR’s annual Historical Research lecture was given, in 2019, by Dr Rob Waters at Queen Mary, University of London. Rob’s lecture — ‘Time come’. Britain’s black futures past — considered the sense of impending change in...
by William White In recent years, concerns about the use of disinformation in politics have become increasingly widespread on both sides of the Atlantic. ‘Post-truth’ was the Oxford Dictionaries’ ‘Word of the Year’ for 2016, in the immediate aftermath of the...
by Jonathan Healey How important were kinship ties in the support of the English poor? In this post Jonathan Healey introduces his new article – ‘Kin support and the English poor: evidence from Lancashire, c.1620–1710’ – published in the May 2019 issue of...
