British Politics in the Long Eighteenth Century: a Defence of Political HistoryFrank O’Gorman (Manchester)Franco-British History seminar22 November 2012 Abstract: This lecture sought to define the nature of eighteenth century British politics and to explain the...
Studies of Home9 January 2013Abigail Williams (University of Oxford)Sighs and settees: recovering the lost history of reading aloud in the eighteenth century What did we do before television? Radio, of course! But what did we do before Radio? In the fifteenth...
British History in the Long 18th CenturyEighteenth-century histories of Norwich and the political vernacularDaniel Howse (University of East Anglia)11 January 2012 This is a guest post by Paul McMenemy, one of IHR Digital’s winter interns from the University of...
Neutral nobility to contentious aristocracy; Changing terms in testing times, 1700-1850 British History in the Long 18th Century SeminarAmanda Goodrich (Open University)7 March 2012Neutral nobility to contentious aristocracy; Changing terms in testing times,...
Today we present the final episode from the 2009 Anglo-American conference. It is a timely wrapping up from that conference as tomorrow the IHR engages the topic of Ancients and Moderns at this year’s Anglo-American. It should be fun! We have papers looking...