This week we have two papers focused on eighteenth-century Britain. In the first Carry van Lieshout discusses the commercialisation of water management in eighteenth-century London for the Metropolitan History seminar. The focus of the paper is on the supply side of...
Welcome to this week’s edition of SPOT Newsletter. Before we begin with our summary reviews I would just like to apologise for the late posting of this entry. It’s been a busy couple of weeks for the History SPOT project. Hopefully we will be back on track next...
Happy New Year! Welcome to the first edition of 2011’s SPOT Newsletter. Today we have uploaded 3 podcasts from the Franco-British History seminar held jointly by the IHR and the University of Paris, our first screencast, and podcasts from our recent conference on...
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can...
‘A world of repositioning and dispersal’ is how Professor David McKitterick describes libraries in the UK in his discussion on present day difficulties that are facing libraries and in particular their rare book collections. This is our first podcasted session from...
With all of this snow and wintery weather affecting the majority of the UK you might be looking forward to your next summer beach holiday more than ever. To help pass the time towards next summer this week’s SPOT newsletter begins with two short papers from the...
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