Live Stream on History SPOT today

Locating London’s past: a geo-referencing tool for mapping historical and archaeological evidence, 1660-1800 Today History SPOT will play host to a live stream of this workshop on Locating London’s Past.  This should prove an interesting and exciting event...

One month on…

Today History SPOT is one month old.  I can’t believe that it has been that long already.  Of course the platform is still in beta mode as we iron out some outstanding bugs and issues.  We still need to implement the search engine throughout the site and there are...

Transported Women and Sailors

In an earlier post about the sexual mores on board transportation ships, I wondered what might have happened to the women when they arrived in New South Wales. Some of them undoubtedly were pregnant but presumably all the sailors they had partnered with during the...

SPOT Newsletter: 11 October 2011

British History in the Long 18th Century30 March 2011Sarah Lloyd (Hertfordshire)Ephemeral Lives: On writing a ticket-centred history of 18th-century BritainTickets: lottery tickets, theatre tickets, turnpike tickets, admission tickets and so forth.  In the eighteenth...

The Murder of Bishops and the Decline of Violence

Steven Pinker’s new book about the decline of violence has been getting some media coverage in the past few weeks. I have been looking forward to reading the book for quite a while, and I was encouraged to see a positive review by the political scientist David...

SPOT Newsletter: 30 September 2011

Sport and Leisure History 23 May 2011Nick Piercey (University College London)Football Club Membership in Rotterdam in 1914: Walking through the Historic City in Search of the Individual In one week of August 1914 the lives of ordinary people began to change as war...