SPOT Newsletter: 22 September 2011

Franco-British History19 May 2011Catherine Hall (UCL)Troubled Memories: histories of the British slave trade and slavery Catherine Hall asks and answers a lot of questions about the construction and reconstruction of histories and memory of the British slave trade. ...

Sex on Convict Ships

I have been working on the series English Historical Documents for a forthcoming digital project. These 14 volumes collect key primary sources for the history of England, Scotland and Wales between 500 and 1957. There are lots of interesting documents to be found...

History SPOT has launched!

I have been waiting to write that title for well over a year now.  After a delay of over 5 months History SPOT is finally ready to launch!    Research Seminars, Lectures and Conferences History SPOT is brimming full of podcasts from IHR seminars, conferences and...

History SPOT and other project updates

Another August day, more rain outside, and a new set of offices.  The recent IHR relocation has, in part, caused a short pause in my blog posting about History SPOT.  There are of course other reasons – largely based around the fact that not much happens in August...

Developing Online Training Courses: Online Course Structures

And finally… This is my final post relating the discussion held at our June workshop on Developing Online Research Training and Course Delivery.  I hope you have found it interesting although you will probably have seen already that the discussions posed more...

Developing Online Training Courses: Blogs, wikis and search engines

At our workshop Developing Online Research Training and Course Delivery it was generally agreed that many historians were hesitant to use blogs and wikis although different age groups vary in this.  The age cohort is worth bearing in mind when setting up a course –...