New Historical Research articles

Mar 31, 2017

‘To become again our brethren’: desertion and community during the American Revolutionary War, 1775–83 by Jonathan Chandler Desertion from active military service has always been a contentious action, especially in times of war. Deserters in the eighteenth century...

Octavia Hill, Social Activism and the Remaking of British Society

Mar 2, 2017

‘Nobler Imaginings and Mightier Struggles’: Octavia Hill, Social Activism and the Remaking of British Society Edited by Elizabeth Baigent and Ben Cowell, this is a new collective volume from the IHR Conference Series. Octavia Hill (1838-1912) was a successful housing...

Announcement from Professor Lawrence Goldman

Feb 15, 2017

‘I intend to stand down as Director of the Institute of Historical Research from 1 May 2017 and will take up the role of Professor of History in the IHR to allow me to concentrate on the Disraeli Letters Project, which I have been successful in attracting to the IHR,...
Casting Churchill

Casting Churchill

Jan 30, 2017

The IHR Wohl Library now offers access to the digitized archive of the private papers of Sir Winston Churchill, both within the library and remotely to holders of a membership card. The archive, which contains some 800,000 items, is an extraordinarily rich resource,...

New Historical Research Early View articles

Jan 30, 2017

Passages from India: Indian anti-colonial activism in exile, 1905–20. Zaib un Nisa Aziz As one of the first anti-colonial movements of the twentieth century, the Indian struggle for independence has attracted a vast and rich historiography. Much of this has been...