May is National Walking Month. In this piece, Clare Hickman and Glen O’ Hara reflect on their new collaborative project which has emerged from personal as well as academic interests in walking, and has led them to reflect on the intersections of environmental, political and health histories. Continue reading “In All Our Footsteps: Tracking Walking Histories in Post-War Britain”
Prof Judith Pollmann reflects on the 80-year ‘Dutch Revolt’. Continue reading 450 Years since The Dutch Revolt
Prof. Leslie Howsam explores the Royal Historical Society’s role in the development of history publishing, and examines the history of our Bibliography of British & Irish History. History was not always a field of study based on rigorous research in … Continue reading The RHS & the Bibliography of British & Irish History
Prof. Richard Bruce Parkinson reflects on celebrating ‘a great unrecorded history’. Continue reading LGBT History Month
We recently visited Queen’s University Belfast to co-host a symposium on “Teaching & Researching Controversial History”. Ahead of our Public History Prize awards later this month, Dr Olwen Purdue (Director of the QUB Centre for Public History) reflects on the … Continue reading Controversial Public History
