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...
Competition for 2019 has now closed; winners will be announced. 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 PhD. The...
By Lawrence Black Much recent work on consumerism, from Frank Trentmann on things, to Bethany Moreton’s brilliant study of Walmart, through to Robert Miller’s anthropological work, has creatively and productively entangled shopping, politics, everyday life and...
By Anaïs Waag Until very recently medieval studies was dominated by the perception that women were actively kept away from political power – a notion we owe mainly to nineteenth-century historians. While there was undoubtedly a preference for male rulers throughout...
