Let’s take 10 famous historical historians — one each week — and see what they can achieve with the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). The Bibliography is a record of more than 600,000 publications relating to Britain, Ireland and the...
This time last year the IHR was preparing to host the conference Novel approaches: from academic history to historical fiction. The conference covered such areas as the transition of historians from writing history to writing historical fiction; the differences and...
Just a quick advertisement for our upcoming workshop specifically designed for up and coming authors of historical fiction: How to Get the History Right in your Historical Fiction: A workshop for authors. As you may be aware, last year the IHR hosted a conference...
Today I am very pleased to announce that videos from our Novel Approaches conference were added to the History SPOT platform (see here for the videos pages), to Youtube and iTunes-u. So you now have the option of watching or simply listening to what our panelists had...
In my first post on the topic of a history of historical fiction I asked where should such a history begin? I thought perhaps a definition of the term historical fiction? While useful such definitions could only get me so far. Then I thought that such a study...
