Colonel Wedgwood and the historians by D. W. Hayton

The first History of Parliament was the brainchild of the maverick Labour backbencher Josiah Wedgwood, who invested his scheme with an ideological as well as a scholarly purpose. Described from Wedgwood’s viewpoint, the history of his History appears as a...

Cities and peripheries – new online article

Swati Chattopadhyay’s plenary lecture from last year’s Anglo-American conference has been published in article form in Historical Research’s online Early View issue. The article addresses a methodological problem of urban history faced with the...

Early View: latest articles

Two new Historical Research articles are now available on Early View: The establishment of a statutory militia in Ireland, 1692–1716: legislative processes and Protestant mentalities. NEAL GARNHAMA man of peaceable intent: Burckhardt, the British and Red Cross...

New articles published online

Three new Historical Research articles are now available on Early View: Reconsidering the Empress Matilda’s act for Andwell. KATHLEEN THOMPSONPoliticizing national literature: the scholarly debate around La chanson de Roland in the nineteenth century. ISABEL N....