Robert Surtees’ History of Durham

The second volume of Surtees’ classic four-volume work on the County Palatine is now live on British History Online. Although incomplete at Surtees’ death in 1834, it has been described by a recent scholar as an ‘outstanding achievement’ and...

Reviews in History – New Reviews 24 September 2009

A variety of different subjects and periods are covered by the reviews this week.First Jill Steward appraises Susan Barton’s study of the beginnings of the Swiss tourism industry in her review (no. 796) of Healthy Living in the Alps: the Origins of Winter Tourism in...

Reviews in History – New Reviews 17 September 2009

This week features a special issue dedicated to various e-book resources relevant to history.Mark Herring of Winthrop University has spent his summer slaving over reviews of Gutenberg-e (no. 792), Humanities-e Books (no. 793), Medieval Sources Online (no. 794) and...

Thanks to Michelle Nash.

Over the summer IHR Digital benefited greatly from the contribution of Michelle Nash, who had come from the United States to work at the IHR as an intern. We were not short of jobs for Michelle to do, and she carried them all out with great willingness and competence....

Historical Research – new Early View articles

Four new articles have been published online in our Early View issue on the Wiley-Blackwell/Historical Research website:‘The last years of Herbert the Chamberlain: Weaverthorpe church and hall’. RICHARD SHARPE‘Warrants under the signet in the reign of Edward IV’....