Roslyn Dubler discusses her recent JHI journal article, "Juliet Mitchell, French Structuralistm, and the Subject of Feminism in 1970s Britian," in a conversation with Carolina Iribarren....

Check out the new issue of the journal—volume 87, issue 4—now on Project MUSE! Contents John Locke and the Truth About “True and Saving Religion”Timothy Stanton  Dugald Stewart and Racial ...

Harpham's book traces how English defenses of New World slavery based on classical arguments persisted—then gave way to something new....

Alexander Aerts interviews Isabel Jacobs and Jacob Saliba about their edited volume, "Authority, History, and Political Theology," which documents the relationship between philosopher Alexandre Kojève...

In 1927, an American's polemic sets off a storm in British India; Indian women refuse to be spoken for; their activism transforms the political history of rights....

by Unglid Paul

This year's symposium will be held on Saturday, October 17 (on Zoom). Register now!

by Mrinalini Sisodia Wadhwa

The new issue of the journal is now available to read on Project MUSE.

CLACS & IHR Research Training

by Christian Jacobs

by Anin Luo

Settler imperial ordering: Settler colonialism and the production of hierarchical sovereignties - Volume 52 Issue 3

Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Despite not securing the succession, despite being Catholic, Catherine, queen of Great Britain from 1662 until Charles...

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

by Disha Karnad Jani

by Lea Cantor and Jonathan Egid

YouTube video by AmericanAntiquarian

July 12, 1776: the sun was shining and Ambrose Serle was beaming as the largest expeditionary force the world had ever seen – 450 ships and 32,000 men – assembled off New York to crush American indepe...

History of Political Ideas/Early Career Seminars

On 2nd July, UCL will be hosting a Graduate Workshop on Early America. All are welcome to join, and it will be followed by the Commonwealth Fund Lecture by Eliga Gould.

by Nicolás Ignacio Rojas

What makes a game liberating to play is also what makes it stifling and oppressive: in both cases it’s because the...

Professor Eliga Gould (University of New Hampshire) will deliver the 2026 Commonwealth Fund Lecture at UCL on Thursday 2 July. In this public lecture, Gould explores the contested legacy of…

by Zac Endter, Tomi Onabanjo, and Mrinalini Sisodia Wadhwa

The new issue of the journal is now available to read on Project MUSE.

The Journal of the History of Ideas and the JHI Blog invite graduate students to propose papers for our eighth annual Graduate Student Symposium, to be held via Zoom on October 17, 2026.

by Lea Cantor and Jonathan Egid

When the Austro-Hungarian Empire was collapsing, but a new order remained uncertain, two extraordinary musical works grappled with questions now central to our understanding of the 20th-century politi...

Modern Humanities Research Association - George Psalmanazar, An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa - Edited by Alice Wickenden

by the JHI community For our Spring 2026 installment of the JHI Blog’s Reading Recommendations, we asked members of the JHI community to recommend a text related to intellectual history, broadly conce...

by Disha Karnad Jani  On this episode of In Theory, Durba Mitra returns to the podcast to talk with Disha Karnad Jani about her new book, The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against...

by Disha Karnad Jani

by Dimitrios Mitsopoulos

by Disha Karnad Jani This think piece is part of a JHI Blog forum: “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History.”

David Armitage (Harvard University)

by Disha Karnad Jani