By Matt Shaw and Michael Townsend There aren’t many awards for libraries, but if there were, a case for a speech similar to that made by Joachim Phoenix at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards could be made. For his best actor speech,...
By Anaïs Waag Until very recently medieval studies was dominated by the perception that women were actively kept away from political power – a notion we owe mainly to nineteenth-century historians. While there was undoubtedly a preference for male rulers throughout...
Sport and Leisure History Khaki Fever at the Finsbury Park Rink Cinema: Gender, Sexuality and Modernity, 1913-19 Alex Rock (De Montfort University) 5 March 2012 This is a guest post by Alison Gilbey, one of IHR Digital’s summer interns from the University of...
The Musketeers Male historical fiction takes a very different form than that intended for a female audience: adventure, warfare, murder mysteries. For the most part this form of historical fiction repeatedly tests the protagonist (usually male) before he is...
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