By Joe Chick In my four previous walks, I’ve explored towns and cities in the east and Midlands. In this blog I’m exploring a city on the boundaries of the English Midlands and the south west, a port that dominated trade with France, Ireland and Wales...
By Evan T. Jones John Cabot’s 1497 ‘discovery’ of North America has been famous since Elizabethan times. When Richard Hakluyt published Divers Voyages (1582), the expedition took centre stage. Hakluyt argued that England had ‘title’ to North America because Cabot had...
Metropolitan HistoryThe prevention of crime in late eighteenth-century Bristol: policing, the public, and the cityMatthew Neale (IHR)29 February 2012 This is a guest post by James Wilkinson, one of IHR Digital’s summer interns from the University of Leicester. The...