History SPOT has launched!

I have been waiting to write that title for well over a year now.  After a delay of over 5 months History SPOT is finally ready to launch!    Research Seminars, Lectures and Conferences History SPOT is brimming full of podcasts from IHR seminars, conferences and...

New Historical Research article: the parliaments of James VI

Using draft legislation from the period 1573–1621, Alan MacDonald’s new article reconstructs the Scottish parliamentary process under James VI. It examines how proposals reached parliament, how they were amended and approved in committee and before the full...

Health in History: a special multimedia virtual issue

Historical Research has produced a special multimedia virtual issue in conjunction with the Anglo-American Conference of Historians 2011, based on the theme of Health in History. The issue features podcasts of lectures from the conference, along with key articles from...

Pollard Prize 2011

The winner of the 2011 Pollard Prize is Siobhan Talbott with ‘British commercial interests on the French Atlantic coast, c.1560-1713 (a paper originally given at the Economic and Social History of the Premodern World, 1500-1800 seminar). The article will appear...

Marc Fitch lecture 2010

The text of Steve Hindle’s 2010 Marc Fitch lecture, ‘Below stairs at Arbury Hall: Sir Richard Newdigate and his household staff, c.1670–1710’, has been published by Historical Research. Currently available online in our Early View issue.