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Latest issue of Historical Research
The May 2020 issue of Historical Research is now available, published by Oxford University Press.
Historical Research
Latest issue of Historical Research
The May 2020 issue of Historical Research is now available, published by Oxford University Press.
Silken Priests: Catholic Disguise and Anti-Popery on the English Mission 1569-1640
The early modern historian, Sarah Johanesen, discusses her research on disguise within Catholic culture, and the place of physical deception in anti-papal conflict and intra-Catholic disputes.
Applications open for the IHR’s Pollard Prize, 2020
For 20 years the IHR’s Pollard Prize has been rewarding talented Early Career Historians and publishing their first articles. Here’s a list of winners, with a call to apply for the 2020 Prize.
The IHR’s journal, ‘Historical Research’, moves to Oxford University Press
From February 2020, the IHR’s academic journal moves to Oxford University Press. The journal now has an international editorial board, an ambitious agenda for shaping future historical debates, and a bold new look.
Victoria County History
Discover Victoria County History Shorts: a lockdown special offer
VCH Shorts are an important element of the Victoria County History. Shorts provide accessible histories by town or parish. Ebook versions of VCH Shorts are now available at the lowest possible price.
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.
Bibliography of British and Irish History
The Bibliography of British and Irish History: a guide to online teaching and student research
With History teaching now online, how can the Bibliography of British and Irish History help lecturers and students? In this joint post with the Royal Historical Society, we offer three key uses of BBIH at this time.
Bibliography of British and Irish History: June update adds 4288 records of recent publications
The June update to the Bibliography of British and Irish History adds records of over 4000 new titles, many published in 2019-20. Here, BBIH Editor, Simon Baker, looks at the global reach of this latest update.
Quietly Essential: Why I insist my students learn how to use the Bibliography of British and Irish History
Early modern historian, David Hitchcock, explains how he uses the Bibliography of British History in the classroom – for teaching and student research.
Exploring publishing trends in the Bibliography of British and Irish History
BBIH editors spend a great deal of time checking new publications across a wide range of historical subject areas. This gives them an excellent insight to shifts in publishing and the emergence of new trends in historical research. Working at the Bibliography of...
Reviews in History
‘Collaborators’ and ‘Crashed’: short, sharp readers’ Reviews
Last month we launched a new strand to the IHR’s Reviews in History series: readers’ short commentaries on books that impress. We begin with two studies of modern world turmoil, and a readers’ guide to new works on early modern religious practice.
Latest books from Reviews in History
The IHR’s Reviews in History publishes regular essays on new books. Reviews appear weekly. In case you missed them, here’s a selection of the latest reviews.
A good read? Then let us know …. Introducing a new venture for ‘Reviews in History’
We’re starting a new venture at Reviews in History: send us a recommendation for a good recent read (book, article, chapter) and we’ll share it with others.
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.
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...