‘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...
The book was launched on 2nd July 2013 to an audience of over 100 people in The Cinema, University of Westminster, 309 Regent St., London W1, with the participation of twelve of our nineteen contributors to the book. It was exciting for us to see the book being so...
BBIH has been updated with 5,831 new records, bringing the overall total to over 534,000. Nearly 3,600 of the new records describe books and articles published in 2012-13; over 700 of them relate to Irish history and 266 of them concern the history of London. We are...
On 1 July 2013, the British Academy published a fascinating collection of essays on ‘Debating open access’ (the book itself is, of course, freely available to download). The volume is a laudable attempt to address a variety of opinions and perspectives. As...
The latest update to the local history internet sites guide was published in the November 2012 issue of the Local Historian [1]. This very useful guide, that updates previous issues and a booklet, covers local history and genealogical sites and resources. The booklet...
In January 2013 we launched our first comprehensive online training course that enables you to learn why you might wish to use databases for historical research and how you would go about it. The course takes you through the basics of creating the databases and shows...
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