New Historical Research articles

‘To become again our brethren’: desertion and community during the American Revolutionary War, 1775–83 by Jonathan Chandler Desertion from active military service has always been a contentious action, especially in times of war. Deserters in the eighteenth century...

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A ‘conservative’ family? The Howard women and responses to religious change during the early Reformation, c.1530–1558. Nicola Clark The Howard family, dukes of Norfolk, are usually described as Catholics and considered to have been religiously ‘conservative’...

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The 1553 succession crisis reconsidered. Paulina Kewes This article offers a new perspective on the context and significance of the 1553 succession crisis precipitated by the Protestant Edward VI’s abortive bid to exclude his Catholic sister Mary in favour of...

Pollard Prize 2017

    The Annual Pollard Prize – named in honour of the IHR’s founding director A. F. Pollard (1869-1948) – was established in 1999, initially as a termly prize for the best paper given at an IHR seminar by a postgraduate or early career...

New Historical Research Early View articles

Passages from India: Indian anti-colonial activism in exile, 1905–20. Zaib un Nisa Aziz As one of the first anti-colonial movements of the twentieth century, the Indian struggle for independence has attracted a vast and rich historiography. Much of this has been...