Sarah Rose on Westmorland

In another in our series of posts by experts in particular counties, Dr Sarah Rose of Lancaster University writes for us about the RCHME volume for Westmorland: I would like to reiterate the comments made by Professor Dyer, written in response to the online...

HEFCE open access consultation, July 2013

On 24 July 2013, the Higher Education Funding Council for England launched a major consultation exercise in relation to the post-2014 REF open access proposals. The full document is available at https://www.hefce.ac.uk/news/newsarchive/2013/name,82784,en.html, and...

Peter Salt on RCHME, Cambridgeshire

British History Online has now completed its digitisation of the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments of England series; all volumes are now freely available to read online. The following post originally appeared on our British History Online blog. Of the last...

Changes to membership at the IHR

The Access Policy for the IHR will be changing in Autumn 2013. Until now, Friendship and Membership have been unified and Friends have had access to the library through their Friends’ subscription. Access to the IHR will now be provided through a new membership...

Historical Research – new early view articles

‘They seem to have all died out’: witches and witchcraft in Lark Rise to Candleford and the English countryside, c.1830–1930. Thomas Waters Flora Thompson’s account of the English countryside during the 1880s–1890s – Lark Rise to Candleford – continues to...