IHR Online Research Seminar Survey

Hi everyone, I thought it was well past time that I made another update to this blog.  We are still carrying out initial research into the state of exisiting online delivery of seminars including, specifically, podcasting.  Its not long now until we’ll have...

2009 Neale Prize article now published online

The winner of the 2009 Sir John Neale prize in Tudor history was Jessica Sharkey with ‘Between king and pope: Thomas Wolsey and the Knight mission’. This article, now published online, examines an attempt by Henry VIII to take charge of proceedings...

Re-inventing the ‘moral economy’ in post-war Britain

From the 1940s Britain entered the age of intensive national economic management. This involved ‘managing the people’ as well as the deployment of new policy instruments, making it necessary to present economic arguments in a way which would win over a...

New issue of Historical Research

The May issue of Historical Research (vol. 83, no. 220) is now available online and in print. Topics include Elizabethan spies, the Royal Navy in Vietnam, Victorian spin doctors and the truth behind Cromwell’s nomination of his eldest son as his successor. See full...

Pollard Prize article now available online

The Pollard Prize is awarded annually for the best paper presented at an Institute of Historical Research seminar by a postgraduate student or by a researcher within one year of completing the PhD. As part of the prize the winning article is published in the...