The May issue of Historical Research (vol. 83, no. 220) is now available online and in print. Topics include Elizabethan spies, the Royal Navy in Vietnam, Victorian spin doctors and the truth behind Cromwell’s nomination of his eldest son as his successor. See full...
From the end of the Second World War to its quiet abandonment in 1968 Britain operated a policy of civil defence, which sought to plan for both continuity of government and the survival of the British public in the event of a nuclear strike.A new book by Matthew Grant...
The Pollard Prize is awarded annually for the best paper presented at an Institute of Historical Research seminar by a postgraduate student or by a researcher within one year of completing the PhD. As part of the prize the winning article is published in the...
The first History of Parliament was the brainchild of the maverick Labour backbencher Josiah Wedgwood, who invested his scheme with an ideological as well as a scholarly purpose. Described from Wedgwood’s viewpoint, the history of his History appears as a...
Academic history in the modern era has often been accused of being increasingly fragmented, with the proliferation of sub-disciplines and of ever more specific research within these. Yet ‘big’ histories of the sort pioneered by Fernand Braudel or William...
When I was doing my History A-level in the early 1990s we were still using John Elliott’s Imperial Spain 1469-1716, quite remarkably given that it was originally published in 1963.Assuming this reflected more on Elliott’s lasting domination of the field...
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