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New from the Victoria County History of Essex: ‘Harwich, Dovercourt and Parkeston in the 19th Century’
The latest publication from the Victoria County History of Essex is now available. Join us for two launch events marking publication of Andrew Senter’s ‘Harwich, Dovercourt and Parkeston in the 19th Century’.
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Fake News and Forgery during the English Revolution
by William White In recent years, concerns about the use of disinformation in politics have become increasingly widespread on both sides of the Atlantic. ‘Post-truth’ was the Oxford Dictionaries’ ‘Word of the Year’ for 2016, in the immediate aftermath of the...
Kin support and the English poor: evidence from Lancashire, c.1620–1710
How important were kinship ties in the support of the English poor? In this post Jonathan Healey introduces his new article published in Historical Research.
Competition for the IHR’s 2019 Pollard Prize
Competition for 2019 has now closed; winners will be announced. The Pollard Prize is awarded annually for the best paper presented at an Institute of Historical Research seminar by a postgraduate student or by a researcher within one year of completing the PhD. The...
The market imperfections of business, shoppers and consumerism
By Lawrence Black Much recent work on consumerism, from Frank Trentmann on things, to Bethany Moreton’s brilliant study of Walmart, through to Robert Miller’s anthropological work, has creatively and productively entangled shopping, politics, everyday life and the...
Victoria County History
New from the Victoria County History of Essex: ‘Harwich, Dovercourt and Parkeston in the 19th Century’
The latest publication from the Victoria County History of Essex is now available. Join us for two launch events marking publication of Andrew Senter’s ‘Harwich, Dovercourt and Parkeston in the 19th Century’.
New from the Victoria County History of Oxfordshire: Wychwood Forest and Environs
The latest volume in the Oxfordshire series of the Victoria County History (VCH) just been published by Boydell and Brewer is the 19th in the set describing this large and varied county.
Upland and Lowland in the South Oxfordshire Chilterns
The most recently published Oxfordshire volume of the Victoria County History looks at the fourteen rural parishes and 30 separate settlements which made up Ewelme hundred in south-east Oxfordshire. It’s now available to explore on British History Online.
St Clement Danes: A Westminster Parish
By Francis Calvert Boorman London has long been thought of as the archetypal conurbation; a vast and unbroken metropolis nevertheless made up of distinctive localities. As the writer and politician Joseph Addison (1672-1719) mused in The Spectator in 1712, ‘When I...
Bibliography of British and Irish History
Historians and BBIH — an adventure in 10 episodes. No 1: Bede
Let's take 10 famous historical historians -- one each week -- and see what they can achieve with the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). The Bibliography is a record of more than 600,000 publications relating to Britain, Ireland and the British world....
London is Calling
The Bibliography of British and Irish History now offers easy access to information on more than 1,250 PhD theses on metropolitan history. London is calling.
Bibliography of British and Irish History – Update September 2019
The Bibliography of British and Irish History has been updated with almost six thousand new records! Some 682 new records relate to Irish history, while 264 deal with the history of London, 396 with the history of Scotland and 152 with Wales. The overall total number...
Top ten summer reading from the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH)
The Editors of BBIH choose their Top Ten history articles and essays for Summer 2019. Drawn from a long list of thousands of articles that will be added to the Bibliography this year.
Reviews in History
This month in ‘Reviews in History’
Our highlight this month on Reviews in History is a fascinating discussion between Scott Newton and David Edgerton of the latter’s The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: a Twentieth Century History.
Reviews in History: ‘In Pursuit of Civility’, by Keith Thomas
In this extract from the IHR’s ‘Reviews in History’, Dr Joan Redmond reviews ‘In Pursuit of Civility: Manners and Civilisation in Early Modern England’ (Yale 2018), by Keith Thomas.
New reviews: Spectral Arctic, Contested Reformations and WW2 Displaced Children
Latest reviews including polar exploration and cultural encounters in the Arctic, an indispensable addition to the historiography of the English reformation and two books on displaced children in post-Second World War Europe.
New reviews: Civil War citizenship, British migrants and histories of punishment
We start this week with The Loyal Republic: Traitors, Slaves and the Remaking of Citizenship in Civil War America by Erik Mathisen. Tom Lawrie welcomes a book which expertly brings the reader’s focus in and out of the national scale, concentrating alternately on the...
Open Access Publishing
#OpenAccess at the IHR: five new publishing initiatives
For OpenAccess Week 2018 (21-28 October), five initiatives from the IHR on disseminating its scholarly content and new forms of publishing for historians.
Open Access Week 2017: share and aware
Researcher awareness and engagement with open access data and sharing is increasing, that is according to a 2017 State of Open Data Report published by Figshare this week. This does not come as a surprise to me and, as a publisher of open access research in a variety...
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...
Digital development: a commitment to OA
When I joined the IHR in early August, I did so with the challenging assignment of helping to further the Institute’s mission to embrace the opportunities of digital content delivery and enable greater access to knowledge, in line with the School’s Statement on Open...