History SPOT will soon be home to training modules from the IHR Digital project (funded by JISC) HISTORE. This project is developing short modules introducing various digital tools that might be of use to historians. For instance, I’m currently working on the...
Sport and Leisure History23 January 2012 Adriana Massidda (University of Cambridge)The ‘La Salada’ Fair (Buenos Aires) as a Place of Recreation and Construction of Identities Note: The audio for this podcast is of low qualitySpeakers abstract: ‘La Salada’...
Sport and Leisure History9 January 2012 Dr Emma Peplow (University of Glamorgan/Marylebone Cricket Club)Taking the Field: Telling the Stories of Grassroots Cricket Most histories of cricket ignore the grassroots game in favour of the bigger teams. Emma Peplow...
Digital History seminar21 February 2012Magnus Huber (Giessen)The Old Bailey Corpus: Spoken English in the 18th and 19th Centuries The Old Bailey Proceedings Online is a heavily used resource by historians of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who want to look at...
Sport and Leisure HistorySport and Civilian Morale in Second World War BritainProfessor Matthew Taylor (De Montfort University)3 October 2011 What do you do about a spectator sport such as football during a period of declared war? This is the question that...
I have been writing this blog ever since I took on History SPOT for the IHR over two years ago. It took me a while to find my feet as I had never created or written a blog before. My remit was to make the blog more interesting than just relaying update reports which...
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