Letting the people speak: 2526 early modern petitions on British History Online
By Philip Carter This autumn the IHR’s British History Online completed a project to digitize and publish over 2500 petitions from early modern England. The digitization project forms part of The Power of Petitioning in Seventeenth-Century England,...
Silken Priests: Catholic Disguise and Anti-Popery on the English Mission 1569-1640
By Sarah Johanesen 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. Sarah’s research recently appeared in her...
Quietly Essential: Why I insist my students learn how to use the Bibliography of British and Irish History
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...