The LGBTQ+ community: an underappreciated resource in environmental awareness and protection
By Nancy C. Unger Environment & History, essay no. 1 In September 2020 we invited researchers to contribute to a forthcoming blog series on ‘Environment & History’. In creating this series, our aim is to explore in greater detail the intersections between...
The Institute of Historical Research in 2020
In a busy, difficult, challenging and transformatory year for us all, here’s a look back at selected activities during 2020 from the IHR. Throughout the year, and especially since March, we’ve sought to support historians of all kinds as best we can. In...
PhD –> BHO –> BL –> PhD: linking British History Online’s thesis data to the British Library
By Jonathan Blaney In this post, Jonathan Blaney—editor of British History Online—explains the latest stage in BHO’s project recording the history of History PhDs in the UK and Ireland. Earlier this year we completed work to digitize, index and publish records of...
Letting the people speak: 2526 early modern petitions on British History Online
By Philip Carter This autumn the IHR’s British History Online completed a project to digitize and publish over 2500 petitions from early modern England. The digitization project forms part of The Power of Petitioning in Seventeenth-Century England,...