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Herr Winkelmeier, Tom Thumb and the Hilton Sisters: Uncovering the ‘freaks’ of the Wellcome Library

Aug 6, 2013

Disability History Seminar Ross MacFarlane (Wellcome Trust) Herr Winkelmeier, Tom Thumb and the Hilton Sisters: Uncovering the ‘freaks’ of the Wellcome Library This is a guest post by Charlotte De Val, one of IHR Digital’s interns from the University of Leicester. The...

Novel Approaches (9): The Nineteenth Century Historical Novel – Nationalism and Desire

Nov 19, 2011

 The Wild Irish GirlOxford World’s Classics series I began my previous post with a quote summarising Georg Lukács claim to the distinctiveness of nineteenth century historical fiction and to how he argued for the role of academic and popular history in its...

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