Podcast Plans for History SPOT in 2012

History SPOT is a continually evolving platform providing provision of Institute of Historical Research seminars, conferences, and workshops as podcasts or live streams and research training materials as handbooks and online training courses.   At the moment we have...

Was Titus Oates Ugly?

I’m struck by the fact that in Volume 8 of English Historical Documents, both the documents which deal with Titus Oates concentrate on his physical appearance. Roger North’s Examen (document 397) describes him like this:He was a low man, of an ill-cut,...

2011 in review

Happy new year one and all!  Hopefully everyone is looking forward to the year ahead even if it has started with gloomy weather and politicians warning of ‘worse yet to come’ in our economies.  I personally think 2012 has the potential to be a very...

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...