Queens and Queenship

Female rulers have been the subject of much interest among historians in recent years, with medieval queens such as Margaret of Anjou and Eleanor of Provence having volumes devoted to them, and a veritable industry springing up of studies of Tudor queens, most notably...

Podcast and Online seminar survey results

The summer hiatus has proven very useful to completing work on several reports. The most significant of which is my analysis of the survey that I advertised back in May/June on this blog. The results were fantastic. We received a response from 301 academics. Most were...

A new Monasticon Hibernicum for the 21st century

Monasticon Hibernicum is a searchable database of Irish ecclesiastical sites. Based on the work of antiquarian Mervyn Archdall (1723-1791) the website was launched in 2003 and is updated. It includes over 5,000 sites from the 5th to 12th centuries. An article in...