Report of IHR’s Long Eighteenth-Century Seminar book launch in the Speaker’s House

Dec 1, 2017

  This post was kindly written for us by P. J. Corfield (Royal Holloway, London University) on behalf of the IHR’s Long Eighteenth-Century Seminar.   Mary Clayton, who has just published A Portrait of Influence: Life and Letters of Arthur Onslow, the Great...

British History Online and the Bibliography of British and Irish History – not just British

Nov 8, 2017

From the titles of some of the IHR’s digital resources, you might think that they have limited geographical reach: British History Online…the Bibliography of British and Irish History. But the real world overspills geographical boundaries and the digital...

‘Ask Alan’: Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Alan Pearsall (1925-2006)

Oct 18, 2017

This post has kindly been written for us by Jennifer Kain, Alan Pearsall Fellow in Naval and Maritime History 2016-17, and now a Research Associate of the IHR As I enter the final stage of my year-long junior fellowship at the IHR I wanted to acknowledge my benefactor...

New Historical Research articles

Sep 21, 2017

Wales in late medieval and early modern English histories: neglect, rediscovery, and their implications. Tim Thornton Those who read English history in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries encountered significant coverage of Wales. English readers of late...

New Historical Research articles

Sep 18, 2017

Miscellanies, Christian reform and early medieval encyclopaedism: a reconsideration of the pre-bestiary Latin Physiologus manuscripts. Anna Dorofeeva This article examines the evidence of the early medieval Latin Physiologus manuscripts for compilatory practices...

Professor Michael Thompson

Aug 25, 2017

Please note: There will be a service for Michael on 14 September at St Helen’s church in Wheathampstead at 3pm. The service will be followed by tea at Anne and Michael’s home in Holly Cottage, Sheepcote Lane, Wheathampstead, A14 8NJ. It is with very great...