Neale Prize essay published online

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.

The Catholic Church, Ireland and the British empire, 1800–1921

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...

Queens and Queenship

Female rulers have been the subject of much interest among historians in recent years, with medieval queens such as Margaret of Anjou and Eleanor of Provence having volumes devoted to them, and a veritable industry springing up of studies of Tudor queens, most notably...

Mass Observation

David Kynaston has successfully blended MO data with other sources in his popular recent studies of Austerity Britain and Family Britain, and with the release of the Mass Observation Archive online this material has been made far more easily availble to historians....

Reviews in History Environmental History Special Issue

Last week saw a special issue of Reviews in History on environmental history, released to coincide with the July 2010 Anglo-American Conference on the same subject. It contains ten new reviews of books covering a variety of aspects of environmental history, including...

The Sir John Neale Prize in Tudor History

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...