The battle for land ‘in the national interest’ during Britain’s Second World War
By Gary Willis Environment & History, essay no. 12 Our twelfth and penultimate contribution to our ‘Environment & History’ series by post-graduate researcher, Gary Willis, hones in on the much-contested “national interest” and its role in wartime...
Environment, emotions, and experience: child migration in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
By Claudia Soares Environment & History, essay no. 7 The next contributor to our ‘Environment & History’ series, Dr Claudia Soares, considers how histories of the environment, emotions, and welfare intersect, through the written experiences of poor and...
British History Online makes all research content free to individual users until 30 April 2021
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...