William Mulligan contends that the revolutionary event in 1870, as far as British foreign policy was concerned, was the collapse of French power, rather than the unification of Germany. By focusing on the latter and Anglo-German relations generally, historians have...
Neil Younger’s article on ‘Securing the monarchical republic: the remaking of the lord lieutenancies in 1585’, joint winner of the 2009 Neale Prize, has now been published online in Historical Research Early View.
Oliver Rafferty examines the ironic contours of the relationship between the Catholic Church and the British empire in the period 1800–1921. He reveals not only how the Vatican appreciated British government largesse but also that successive popes were quite prepared...
The winner of The Sir John Neale Prize in Tudor History for 2010 is Charlotte Panofré with ‘Radical Geneva? The publication of Knox’s First Blast of the Trumpet and Goodman’s How Superior Powers ought to be Obeyd in context’. The article will appear in...
The winner of the IHR’s Pollard Prize this year is Julie Mumby with ‘The descent of family land in later Anglo-Saxon England’ (originally given to the Earlier Middle Ages seminar). The runner up was Antonia Fitzpatrick with ‘Mendicant order...
M. L. Connelly’s new article now published online explores the connection between the army, the press and the Unionist party during the so-called ‘Curragh incident’ of March 1914 in which certain army officers expressed their unwillingness to impose...
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