Brodie Waddell’s latest article The Evil May Day riot of 1517 and the popular politics of anti-immigrant hostility in early modern London is published in the latest issue of Historical Research. Here Brodie explains the development of that research. In the Spring of...
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,...
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...
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...
by Jonathan Healey How important were kinship ties in the support of the English poor? In this post Jonathan Healey introduces his new article – ‘Kin support and the English poor: evidence from Lancashire, c.1620–1710’ – published in the May 2019 issue of...
