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Western Diplomatic Sources and the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
Michael Townsend – the library’s Collections Librarian – highlights some sources about the early modern Ottoman Empire found in the International Relations collection and introduces three new collection guides on medieval, early modern and modern history.
Thinking beyond the “vanishing coasts”
By:Coastal Connections- IHR Partnership Seminar: Young Rae Choi[1], Michael O´Rourke[2], Katie Ritson[3], Hsinya Huang[4] and Joana Gaspar de Freitas[5] Coasts are highly dynamic environments. Their constant mutability is what defines them best. However, they seem to...
The battle for land ‘in the national interest’ during Britain’s Second World War
In this – the penultimate contribution to our ‘Environment and History’ series – Gary Willis considers the much-contested ‘national interest’ and its role in wartime land-management. Taking us to the British countryside before, during, and after, World War Two, the post considers how interest groups lobbied, and policy decisions were made, about the rural environment, and alerts us to the political potency of the ‘national interest’ as a concept in times of national emergency — such as the current pandemic.
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Features & Articles
Sports and Celebrations
For the UK, 2012 is turning into one of those years where celebrations mingle with fears of recession and global economic catastrophe. It’s an odd mix. The hosting of the Olympics and Paralympics Games this summer alongside the recent celebration of Queen Elizabeth...
Cities (Anglo-American conference 2009)
Today History SPOT looks back to 2009 to when we held our annual Anglo-American conference on the subject of Cities. The first two podcasts (the welcome by the IHR Director Miles Taylor and the plenary paper entitled Ideas of the Metropolis by Derek Keene) are now...
Ancients and Moderns
The 81st Anglo-American conference will be held by the IHR at the beginning of July on the topic of Ancients and Moderns. How does the modern world (in respective periods) look upon the ancient past? How is it used to validate the present or inform the discourse? ...
Elizabethan Courtly Love: Sir Walter Raleigh and Elizabeth I
Sir Walter Raleigh (c. 1554-1618) well known as an Elizabethan explorer and soldier, is also known to have written a sonnet entitled Fortune Hath Taken Thee Away, My Love. It is believed that Raleigh wrote this sonnet as a response to the rise of Robert Devereux,...
Publications News
New reviews: Civil War, Ottoman Empire, Early Modern Catholics and C20 Archbishop
We start this week with The War That Forged A Nation: Why The Civil War Still Matters by James M. McPherson, and Susan-Mary Grant and the author discuss the latest work by the Civil War’s most preeminent historian (no. 1887, with response here). Next up Kate Fleet...
New Historical Research article
National Service: the University of London Library during the Second World War by Karen Attar During the Second World War, the Ministry of Information occupied London's Senate House. The University of London Library continued to function in the building,...
New Historical Research articles
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...
New reviews: asylums, British soldiers, Puritans and nuns
We start this week with John Foot’s The Man Who Closed the Asylums: Franco Basaglia and the Revolution in Mental Health Care. Peter Barham and the author discuss a hugely ambitious book about the movement in Italy to transform the institutional landscape of Italian...
Research & Resources News
New reviews: 3000 years of finance, medieval Welsh soldiers, literary salons and Salmonella
We begin with A Concise History of International Finance: From Babylon to Bernanke by Larry Neal, as Andrew Mcdiarmid reviews an engaging narrative that charts the evolution of finance from the personal to the impersonal (no. 1899). Then we turn to Adam Chapman’s...
New reviews: Labour Party, Europeana, Early Modern accounting and slavery
We kick off this week with the History of the Labour Party by Andrew Thorpe, as Christopher Massey and the author discuss the most up-to-date study on the 115-year lifetime of the Labour Party (no. 1895, with response here). Then we have a review of the digital...
A new open access series with the Royal Historical Society
The IHR has the great pleasure of announcing our partnership with the Royal Historical Society (RHS) to publish a new, open access series of monographs and shorter form works, further solidifying our commitment to open access. New Historical Perspectives will seek to...
New reviews: Civil War, Ottoman Empire, Early Modern Catholics and C20 Archbishop
We start this week with The War That Forged A Nation: Why The Civil War Still Matters by James M. McPherson, and Susan-Mary Grant and the author discuss the latest work by the Civil War’s most preeminent historian (no. 1887, with response here). Next up Kate Fleet...