Annual Pollard Prize 2015

Entries are invited for this year’s Pollard Prize (sponsored by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.) awarded for the best paper presented at an IHR seminar 2014-15 by a postgraduate student or by a researcher within one year of completing the PhD. First prize Fast...

New reviews: Early modern women x 2, French Revolution, colonial Seoul

We start with Mediatrix: Women, Politics and Literary Production in Early Modern England by Julie Crawford. Alice Ferron and the author discuss a book which provides innovative close readings of the lives and writings of some of early modern England’s most famous and...

New reviews: Trust, Italian Army, British India and Colonial Boston

We kick off this week with Geoffrey Hosking’s Trust: A History, with Eric M. Uslaner and the author disagreeing over this key issue (no. 1729, with response here). Next up is The Italian Army and the First World War by John Gooch. Mario Draper reviews a book which...

New Historical Research articles

Humanitarian assistance during the Rif War (Morocco, 1921–6): the International Committee of the Red Cross and ‘an unfortunate affair by Pablo La Porte This article focuses on the role of the International Committee of the Red Cross (I.C.R.C.) in the Rif War (Morocco,...