Historic Haile Homestead
By Annie Carey Rogers Tucked off the main streets of Gainesville, Florida, the Historic Haile Homestead was built for the Haile family in the 1850s by enslaved labourers. Local historians and docents of the Haile Homestead deduce that the matron, Serena Haile, began...
#OpenAccess at the IHR: five new publishing initiatives
By Philip Carter For Open Access Week 2018 (21-28 October), here are five ways in which the Institute of Historical Research is engaging with OA publishing. But first … What is Open Access? Open access refers to the free access to and generally free reuse...
Is history repeating itself? Timely new additions to the Bibliography of British and Irish History
By Simon Baker. It’s an oft-recited truism that history seems to repeat itself, but our understanding of the past does help us to put the present into much needed perspective. As we add more books and articles to the ever-expanding Bibliography of British...