From the BHO editorial team British History Online (BHO) is a digital collection of key printed primary and secondary sources for the history of Britain and Ireland, with a special focus on the period 1300 to 1800. As we enter a new lockdown period...
By David Hitchcock We spotted early modern historian David Hitchcock speaking about BBIH on Twitter, so we got in touch and asked him how he used it as an academic researcher and teacher. Here’s what he wrote … I doubt anyone has ever composed a hymn in...
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...
British History in the Long 18th Century7 November 2012Kate Retford (Birkbeck, University of London)What’s in a Name?: The ‘Conversation’ Piece in Eighteenth-Century Britain For the uninitiated (that would include me, I’m afraid!) ‘conversation’ pieces is a term...
British History in the Long Eighteenth Century30 January 2013Giorgio Riello (University of Warwick)The World is not Enough: Global History, Cotton Textiles and the Industrial Revolution Although the title of this paper might remind you of a James Bond film, this...
