The rebellion against Charles I that began in Scotland in 1637 became the catalyst for a series of wars that spanned his British dominions. Laura Stewart’s article shows how the civil wars of the mid seventeenth century created the conditions for a fiscal...
Two prize-winning articles have now been published online in Historical Research’s Early View issue:2009 Pollard Prize runner up ‘Before the Cultural Cold War: American philanthropy and cultural diplomacy in the inter-war years’ by Katharina...
The England’s Past for Everyone is a local history project run by the Victoria County History. Volunteers throughout the country have worked alongside authors and researchers to produce a whole range of new resources.The project is now almost complete, and as well as...
The emergence of material culture as a subject for historical enquiry has brought to the fore the question of what constitute ‘proper’ sources for ‘proper’ history. Amanda Vickery’s new book Behind Closed Doors. At Home in Georgian...
The winner of the 2009 Sir John Neale prize in Tudor history was Jessica Sharkey with ‘Between king and pope: Thomas Wolsey and the Knight mission’. This article, now published online, examines an attempt by Henry VIII to take charge of proceedings...
From the 1940s Britain entered the age of intensive national economic management. This involved ‘managing the people’ as well as the deployment of new policy instruments, making it necessary to present economic arguments in a way which would win over a...
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