Apr 22, 2025
This blog post was written by Ruth Slatter and Adam Chapman, Co-General Editors of the VCH. The Victoria County History (VCH), is delighted to announce that its national network of place-based history is growing! 125 years after the VCH was founded, over the last few...
Dec 1, 2021
Ahead of his new book The Control of the Past: Herbert Butterfield and the Pitfalls of Official History, senior Whitehall historian Patrick Salmon talks us through the dangers of government-mandated history and asks- can history ever be truly objective? ‘I do not...
Nov 18, 2021
In this fascinating blog, Dr. James Southern, a writer and researcher for the UK government, provides some startling insight into discriminatory policies which served as the basis of an official bar on gay men working as British diplomats that lasted until 1991. The...
Aug 19, 2020
By John Sabapathy In July 2020, University of London press published Individuals and Institutions in Medieval Scholasticism, the latest title in New Historical Perspectives, an Open Access series for early career historians from the IHR and the Royal Historical...
Apr 14, 2020
By Sam Manning Cinemas are just one of the popular public arenas required to close during the current COVID-19 emergency. But for many UK venues this crisis has historical resonance. Here, cinema historian Dr Sam Manning considers how the film industry and British...
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