Apr 24, 2023
When I first saw the advertisement for the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) Section Editors, I am ashamed to say that I had not heard of this vital resource. After a Google search and having checked my university library’s website, I quickly...
Apr 13, 2021
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...
Sep 11, 2020
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...
Sep 6, 2018
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...
Aug 29, 2018
By Clare Makepeace There is no historical source I enjoy reading more than personal correspondence. It is so deliciously intimate, being a private communication between two individuals. It must also must satisfy a slightly wicked streak in me because I take a certain...
