In March 2014 a group of historians at the University of Birmingham launched a new Centre for Modern British Studies: MBS@Birmingham
History at Large
Little Germany, Stratford 1914
As the centenary approaches of the outbreak of the First World War, Simon Buck of Eastside Community Heritage invites support for a local initiative in London’s East End to remember the treatment meted out to the tens of thousands of German nationals living in Britain at that time
‘Reflections on Jacoby and All That’: An Unpublished Essay by E. P. Thompson
A previously unpublished paper written by E P Thompson in 1987, and presented at the History and Society Program of the University of Minnesota during the 1987-1988 academic year.
Memorializing Partition
Historian and columnist Ramachandra Guha on the memorialisation of the Partition in India
Invisible Histories – Keeping the Memory Alive
Neil Dymond-Green on the Invisible Histories oral history project at the Working Class Movement Library, Salford, UK
Campaigning for the Vote: Kate Parry Frye’s Suffrage Diary
The discovery of 60 volumes of diaries belonging to suffrage society activist Kate Parry Frye, has allowed author Elizabeth Crawford to shine new light on the work of New Constitutional Society for Women’s Suffrage during the period 1911 to 1915
Reinventing the Academic Journal: The ‘Digital Turn’, Open Access, & Peer Review
Tim Hitchcock and Jason M. Kelly discuss the transformations of the ‘digital turn’ to academic publishing practises and ways of defining an academic community
