SPOT Newsletter: 9 November 2011

Hello and welcome to this week’s SPOT Newsletter.  Today we’ll be looking at two seminars from our collaboration with seminar groups outside of the IHR taken from the previous academic year.  We have been very fortunate to build ties with the...

Plus ça change

The recent bank bail-out is still fresh in the public mind, as shown by the Occupy London campaign. A look at volume XII(2) of English Historical Documents reveals that bank bail-outs are nothing new. Document 62 is an article in The Economist from December 1890, in...

Technical problems in last night’s live streamed seminar

Last night was the IHR’s eighth live streamed event, the fourth for our Digital History seminar, and the second since the launch of History SPOT.  Unfortunately on this occasion things did not go as planned.  This blog post is, therefore, part apology to all of you...

Three Godfrey of Boullions in one day

A colleague is working on English Historical Documents and came across the name of Godfrey of Boullion in the context of Caxton’s publications. In Caxton defends the historicity of King Arthur (1485), Caxton, in his preface to Malory’s King Arthur, outlines his “nine...

SPOT Newsletter: 26 October 2011

Sport and Leisure History20 June 2011Football and National Identity in Post-War England Christoph Wagner (De Montfort University)Huns vs Inselaffen: Anglo-German Football Rivalry, 1954-2000 In the 1950s and 1960s how was the rivalry between England and Germany in...