by Talking Humanities | Jun 15, 2017 | Archives & Libraries, Discipline, Features, History & Classics, Research & Resources
Dr Joseph Harley, EHS Postan Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, bemoans the fact that although the poor made up well over half of the British population during the early modern period, archives contain very little information on them. For a historian...
by aseifert | Jun 7, 2013 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Politics & Law, Republished
In his recent blog, Martin Plaut, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, discusses John Simpson’s controversial coverage of white poverty in South Africa. Though poor whites are in a minority, should this mean that the tens of thousands who do live...
