SPOT Newsletter: 16 December 2011 (Novel Approaches special)

Today I am very pleased to announce that videos from our Novel Approaches conference were added to the History SPOT platform (see here for the videos pages), to Youtube and iTunes-u. So you now have the option of watching or simply listening to what our panelists had...

SPOT Newsletter: 14 December 2011

WorkshopLocating London’s past: a geo-referencing tool for mapping historical and archaeological evidence, 1660-180021 October 2011Robert Shoemaker, Tim Hitchcock, Matthew Davies, David Green, Peter Barker, Ian Gregory  This workshop looked at the Locating...

Christmas in Connected Histories

Unsurprisingly, the term ‘Christmas’ appears frequently in the resources indexed by Connected Histories – 58,644 times to be precise. The search results include a significant numbers of people with the surname Christmas, from the Leicestershire vicar...

Christmas violence

The Christmas story is a violent one, at least according to the account in Matthew’s gospel:When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old...

Citations, week 50 2011

Thurloe and the Secret Room Thurloe and the Secret Room The British Postal Museum & Archive (2011-12-05) John Thurloe, whose state papers are available on BHO, was the first postmaster general and is reported to have opened and read all of the post every...