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‘A mission he bore – to Duke William he came’: Harold Godwineson’s Commentum and his covert ambitions. Ad F. J. van Kempen Harold Godwineson’s journey to France, depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry, is nowadays mostly regarded as rather reckless attempt to...

New Historical Research article

‘We have to compliment the Aristocracy on the exhibition of their morals’: the Ellenborough divorce case (1830) and the politics of scandal in pre-reform London and Vormärz Vienna by Greet de Bock Using the 1830 divorce of Lord and Lady Ellenborough as a case...

Pollard Prize 2016

  The deadline for this year’s prize is Friday 27 May.   The Pollard Prize (sponsored by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.) is awarded for the best paper presented at an IHR seminar 2014-15 by a postgraduate student or by a researcher within one year of...

May issue of Historical Research (vol. 89, no. 244) published

Contents The early Irish hostage surety and inter-territorial alliances by Jaqueline Bemmer A matter of trust: the royal regulation of England’s French residents during wartime, 1294–1377 by Bart Lambert and W. Mark Ormrod [open access] Treason, felony and...

Historical Research virtual issue: Anglo-Irish relations

To mark the centenary of the Easter Rising we have put together a collection of previously published articles from Historical Research and podcasts from the IHR research seminar series on the theme of Anglo-Irish relations. This content can be accessed freely for a...

New Historical Research articles

Memories of violence and New English identities in early modern Ireland by Joan Redmond This article explores the violence surrounding the collapse of the Munster plantation in 1598. It situates this event in the wider context of violence in early modern Ireland, and...