Michael Gove’s Island Story – why history teachers are up in arms

Michael Gove’s Island Story – why history teachers are up in armsAndrew StoneSocialist History seminar13 May 2013Every now and then the Institute of Historical Research has a seminar that is not about research into History itself but about present day concerns and...

History SPOT stats – the Seminars and Conferences

The History SPOT podcasts are derived largely from the IHR’s research seminar programme and its series of conferences.  The first of these two tables show the regular contributors to History SPOT (i.e. the seminars who podcast all or most of their seminars) and those...

Live Stream Tonight – Medieval Scotland Database

Just a quick reminder that the Digital History seminar will be streaming live tonight at 5.15pm GMT. Digital History seminarMatthew HammondThe People of Medieval Scotland database: structure, prosopography and network visualisation  To take part in the live...

History SPOT usage trends

I thought today I would share with you a few of the stats that we’ve observed from the History SPOT podcast service.  The table below shows how many times podcast files have been played in the browser and downloaded.  The website went live in September 2011 but plays...