Irish History
October 15, 2021
Boydell has long published on all aspects of Ireland’s history and literature – we even publish a delightful travel guide for visitors – and the last year or so has… READ MORE
Category: Early Modern and Modern History
The London Record Society
September 8, 2021
The London Record Society is a charity founded in 1964 to stimulate interest in archives relating to London. With the publication of their latest title The London Jubilee Book, 1376-1387… READ MORE
Erasmus Darwin’s Gardens
August 19, 2021
This was originally published on the University of Derby’s blog. Reposted here by kind permission. While much attention has been given to Derby and Lichfield doctor Erasmus’s poetry, Erasmus Darwin’s… READ MORE
Britain and the German Churches, 1945-1950
August 6, 2021
The only institution of any size that remained in German hands after May 1945 was the Church. As a result of promising ‘religious freedom’, the ‘churches’ escaped direct control. As… READ MORE
The State Trials and the Politics of Justice in Later Stuart England
August 4, 2021
Brian Cowan is a Professor of History at McGill University. Scott Sowerby is an Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University. As they write here, although the term “state trial”… READ MORE
The Clergy in Early Modern Scotland
July 28, 2021
Here the editors of this detailed look at the role of clerics during a turbulent period tell us about how they chose to represent the clergy of the time and… READ MORE
Blood Waters
July 5, 2021
Far from the romanticised image of the swashbuckling genre of maritime history, the eighteenth-century Caribbean was a ‘marchlands’ in which violence was a way of life and where solidarities were… READ MORE
Visualising Protestant Monarchy
June 23, 2021
Julie Farguson is College Lecturer in History at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. Here she tells us about her new book, a discussion of how, at a crucial point in British… READ MORE
State Surveillance, Political Policing and Counter-Terrorism in Britain: 1880-1914
June 11, 2021
The latest in our History of British Intelligence series State Surveillance, Political Policing and Counter-Terrorism in Britain explores how the state worked to identify, track and counter a varied array… READ MORE
Anatomy of a Duel in Jacobean England
June 9, 2021
Dr Lloyd Bowen introduces us his new book, a fascinating look at an infamous duel which took place in Highgate in 1610. But was it a fair duel, fought according… READ MORE
Irish History