Beyond history and the Midlands
Initially founded as the Midlands Historical Review, we now publish content on any subject within the Arts and Humanities and work with individuals across the globe. These changes are reflected in our recent rebrand as The MHR and through a new initiative of Regional Editors and teams. Find out how to get involved below.
Latest from The MHR
Spotlight series
Jury Nullification: The Short History of a Little Understood Power
Jury Nullification: The Short History of a Little Understood Power Richard Marshall is a PhD student in History at the University of Plymouth. His doctoral research explores the place of trial by jury in the politics, culture and society of late eighteenth-century English radicalism. He is supervised by Dr James Gregory and Dr Claire Fitzpatrick. […]
Articles
Cow 133 at the Central Veterinary Laboratory: Recognising a Novel Zoonosis
Cow 133 at the Central Veterinary Laboratory: Recognising a Novel Zoonosis Isobel Newby Download PDF Introduction Known colloquially as Mad Cow Disease, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) is one of a group of fatal, progressive neurodegenerative diseases called Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies. They take the form of scrapie, a contagious disease affecting sheep and goats first recorded […]
Book reviews
Book Review: Jennifer Mara DeSilva (ed.), The Borgia Family, Rumour and Representation (2020)
Review: Jennifer Mara DeSilva (ed.), The Borgia Family, Rumour and Representation (2020) Thomas Wood The Borgias are amongst the most notorious families in history and their sordid legacy has been a source of interest to historians for centuries. Indeed, a new history of the Borgia family appears in Italian Renaissance section of book shops […]
