Historical Research November 2010 (vol. 83, no. 222)

The latest issue of Historical Research is now available. Highlights include two plenary lectures from the 2009 Anglo-American conference on Cities; a look at changing perceptions of the Victorian detective ‘From Menace to Celebrity’; a critical examination of...

Historical Research August 2010 (vol. 83, no. 221)

Highlights from the latest issue of Historical Research include:Anne Duggan on Roman, canon and common law in 12th-century England; Benjamin Wild on the jewel accounts of King Henry III; a look at the Free Christian Union, 1867–70, by Michael Ledger-Lomas and at war...

Irish immigrants in Scotland’s shipyards and coalfields

John Foster, Muir Houston and Chris Madigan examine employment relations, sectarianism and class formation among Catholic and Protestant Irish immigrants in 19th century Clydeside and Lanarkshire. New article available on Historical Research Early View.

Britain, the ‘German revolution’, and the fall of France, 1870/1

William Mulligan contends that the revolutionary event in 1870, as far as British foreign policy was concerned, was the collapse of French power, rather than the unification of Germany. By focusing on the latter and Anglo-German relations generally, historians have...

Neale Prize essay published online

Neil Younger’s article on ‘Securing the monarchical republic: the remaking of the lord lieutenancies in 1585’, joint winner of the 2009 Neale Prize, has now been published online in Historical Research Early View.