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Two actors, two plays

Apr 5, 2016

Although Samuel Foote and Ira Aldridge may seem an improbable pairing, both have featured in recent plays on the London stage. Foote, an eighteenth-century actor and playwright, is portrayed in Mr Foote’s Other Leg, played by Simon Russell Beale, while Ira...

Symbolic Scratchings or Belligerent Literacy: Graffiti and its Interpretations

Mar 7, 2016

The theme of graffiti seems to be a popular topic of late, and a search on the Bibliography reveals the interesting array of material that has been published recently. The term ‘graffiti’ often has negative connotations in our modern society as an act of vandalism,...

A new open access series with the Royal Historical Society

Feb 15, 2016

The IHR has the great pleasure of announcing our partnership with the Royal Historical Society (RHS) to publish a new, open access series of monographs and shorter form works, further solidifying our commitment to open access. New Historical Perspectives will seek to...

Feast of St Brigid – 1st February

Feb 1, 2016

The feast day of St Brigid is celebrated on the 1st February, and in honour of this, we have delved into our resources to give a taste of the material available on the Bibliography of British and Irish History. St Brigid of Kildare is one of the main patron saints of...

Hades! The Ladies: Draper’s clerks, police, foundlings and nursery education

Jan 14, 2016

In previous posts I have alluded to the range of material gathered for BBIH, a range that sometimes creates a sense of déjà vu with similar or complementary articles. The following are recent examples. I start with three articles all about clerks and shop workers; two...

Two actors, two plays

Symbolic Scratchings or Belligerent Literacy: Graffiti and its Interpretations

A new open access series with the Royal Historical Society

Feast of St Brigid – 1st February

Hades! The Ladies: Draper’s clerks, police, foundlings and nursery education

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