The battle for land ‘in the national interest’ during Britain’s Second World War
By Gary Willis Environment & History, essay no. 12 Our twelfth and penultimate contribution to our ‘Environment & History’ series by post-graduate researcher, Gary Willis, hones in on the much-contested “national interest” and its role in wartime...
The Hidden Shelter: local and national histories of the Second World War
By Henry Irving This guest post comes from Henry Irving, a member of the advisory board for the IHR’s Centre for the History of People, Place and Community. Here Henry outlines his current research on the home front in Leeds and his forthcoming 3D tour of one of the...
New reviews: Spectral Arctic, Contested Reformations and WW2 Displaced Children
We start this week with The Spectral Arctic: a Cultural History of Ghosts and Dreams in Polar Exploration by Shane McCorristine. Kristof Smeyers enjoys a thought-provoking, inspiring book, important in its approach to the study of the supernatural, and timely in its...