Oliver Rafferty examines the ironic contours of the relationship between the Catholic Church and the British empire in the period 1800–1921. He reveals not only how the Vatican appreciated British government largesse but also that successive popes were quite prepared...
The winner of The Sir John Neale Prize in Tudor History for 2010 is Charlotte Panofré with ‘Radical Geneva? The publication of Knox’s First Blast of the Trumpet and Goodman’s How Superior Powers ought to be Obeyd in context’. The article will appear in...
The winner of the IHR’s Pollard Prize this year is Julie Mumby with ‘The descent of family land in later Anglo-Saxon England’ (originally given to the Earlier Middle Ages seminar). The runner up was Antonia Fitzpatrick with ‘Mendicant order...
M. L. Connelly’s new article now published online explores the connection between the army, the press and the Unionist party during the so-called ‘Curragh incident’ of March 1914 in which certain army officers expressed their unwillingness to impose...
The rebellion against Charles I that began in Scotland in 1637 became the catalyst for a series of wars that spanned his British dominions. Laura Stewart’s article shows how the civil wars of the mid seventeenth century created the conditions for a fiscal...
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