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History Day 2022
Now in its ninth year, this free one-day event aims to bring together students, researchers, and anyone with an interest in history, with information professionals from libraries, archives and research organisations. Argula Rublack and Kate Wilcox reflect on this year’s History Day event.
Get to Know Medieval Londoners – New Crowdsourced Research
Learn about the exciting Medieval Londoners project in this guest blog from Grace Campagna—and discover how you can get involved through Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine’s Transcription Tuesday event on 31 January, 2023. Technological advances are altering the way...
Bringing the VCH Past to Wikipedia Present
In this blog, VCH General Editor, Adam Chapman and IHR Collections Librarian, Michael Townsend, introduce the VCH Archive and how it is being used to broaden other projects (including Wikipedia). As you might imagine, like any 123-year-old organisation, The...
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Places still available – Methodologies for Material Culture: Literary Culture
Places are still available for this one day free workshop on the topic of Material Culture. The workshop takes place at Senate House (London) this coming Monday, so if you would like to join us please sign up fast! This is the second in a series of AHRC Collaborative...
‘Stand Clear of the Doors, Please’: An Aural Journey on the London Underground
Going Underground: Travel Beneath the Metropolis 1863-2013Jacob Paskins‘Stand Clear of the Doors, Please’: An Aural Journey on the London Underground17 January 2013 Abstract: The Underground is one of the noisiest places in London. The sounds of machines, crowds and...
Next Live Stream: Issues in Teaching the Wider World
Nick Guyatt's and Luke Clossey's recently piece, 'It's a Small World After All? Geographical diversity and history teaching in the UK', in the American Historical Association's Perpectives on History (May 2013) has started a lively debate about the breadth and...
Good Feeling and Brotherliness: Leisure, the Suburbs and the Society of Public Librarians in London, 1895-1930
Sport and Leisure History28 January 2013Dr Michelle Johansen (Bishopsgate Institute)Good Feeling and Brotherliness: Leisure, the Suburbs and the Society of Public Librarians in London, 1895-1930On 3 May 1895 the Society of Public Libraries in London was founded with...
Publications News
Competition Open: Pollard Prize 2018
Entries are invited for this year's Pollard Prize (sponsored by Wiley) awarded for the best paper presented at an IHR seminar 2017-18 by a postgraduate student or by a researcher within one year of completing the PhD. First prize Fast track publication in the...
Latest reviews – Ottomans, Nazi administrators, Godfrey of Bouillon and reproduction response
We start today with Michael Provence's The Last Ottoman Generation and the Making of the Modern Middle East. Ramazan Hakkı Öztan and the author debate an exemplary reinterpretation of the history of the inter-war Middle East (no. 2231, with response here). Then we...
Daring Dynasty: Custom, Conflict and Control in Early-Tudor England by Mark R. Horowitz
He founded perhaps the most famous dynasty in history: the Tudors. Yet, in 1485 when Henry Tudor defeated Richard III to become King Henry VII, he possessed the most anaemic claim to the throne since William the Conqueror. In defiance of the norms of medieval rule, he...
Latest reviews – Punjab, American sectionalism, Angevin England and Muslim conspiracy
We start with Mark Condos' The Insecurity State: Punjab and the Making of Colonial Power in British India. Michael Brunner and the author discuss a thought-provoking and profound analysis of colonial insecurities, violence and legislation (no. 2228, with response...
Research & Resources News
Latest reviews – Holocaust memories, slave reproduction and Irish emigrés
We start this week with Survivor Café: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory, an innovative book by Elizabeth Rosner. Ellis Spicer believes this book's contribution to the field lies in its raw emotionality, personal stories and thematic strengths (no....
Latest reviews – C19 consumption, medieval religion, modern magic and 10 commandments revisited
Happy New Year to all Reviews in History readers! We start 2018 with the latest in our occasional podcast series, a fascinating interview with Joanna Cohen discussing among other things her new book, Luxurious Citizens: The Politics of Consumption in...
Latest reviews – secret files, Decalogue, Anschluss and more WW1 trauma
We start this week with Secret Files from World War to Cold War: British Government and Secret Intelligence and Foreign Policy files. Dan Lomas believes the sheer size and usability of the digital records makes this a worthwhile aid for anyone interested in early...
Top ten articles from the Bibliography of British and Irish History (Christmas reading)
As Christmas approaches, we thought we’d provide you with some yuletide reading as you sit by the fireside with a mince pie or two. Once again we have collated a top ten of our favourite, most interesting, most surprising articles that we index at the BBIH. 1....