This post has kindly been written for us by the ODNB’s Philip Carter. The May 2016 update of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography adds biographies of nearly 100 men and women active over 4000 years of British history. May’s update provides a special...
We’re very pleased that all of the project case studies are now available to read online. We posted before about the first five case studies when we added them to our institutional repository. Now the other five have joined them. Searching for Home in the...
Entries are invited for this year’s Pollard Prize (sponsored by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.) awarded for the best paper presented at an IHR seminar 2015-16 by a postgraduate student or by a researcher within one year of completing the PhD. First prize Fast...
This post has kindly been written for us by Dr Philip Carter of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. For 135 years the Dictionary of National Biography has been the national record of noteworthy men and women who’ve shaped the British past. Today’s Dictionary...
Paper salvage in Britain during the Second World War by Henry Irving This article builds upon recent scholarship on the recycling – or ‘salvage’ – schemes organized by the British government during the Second World War. Viewing the act of recycling as part of an...
Colonial autonomy and Cold War diplomacy: Hong Kong and the case of Anthony Grey, 1967–9 by James Fellows Recent literature has explored the substantial autonomy Hong Kong enjoyed under British imperial rule in the post-war period. We are, however, left without an...
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