By Sarah Goldsmith In this post Dr Sarah Goldsmith introduces her new book, Masculinity and Danger on the Eighteenth-Century Grand Tour published by University of London Press on 30 November. Sarah’s book argues that argues that dangerous experiences...
By Diane Clements In 2018 Diane Clements graduated with an MRes from the Institute of Historical Research. Her 30,000-word dissertation looked at the workings of an eighteenth-century ‘tontine’, offering new insight on attitudes to private investment and...
By Cristina Sasse Nowadays, when we are new to a town or need to find information about a doctor or a certain type of shop, we use internet search engines, web mapping services, and mobile navigation apps to find what we want. We use social media, online...
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...
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...
