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...

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...

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...

History SPOT: A guide to designing Databases for Historical Research

With the launch of History SPOT the Institute of Historical Research have also launched a brand new handbook written by our own Dr Mark Merry on the subject of designing databases for historical research. Mark is the primary tutor on our various Databases course and...

SPOT Newsletter: 26 September 2011

 British History in the Long 18th Century8 June 2011Isabelle Cosgrave (Exeter University)A Quaker convert and the writing of fiction: the case of Amelia OpieAmelia Opie was a prominent English author who wrote novels, short stories, and poems between 1790 and 1834. ...

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. ...