British History Online has been publishing the inventory volumes of the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England) series. We currently have 30 volumes online, with another dozen or so to come, and it’s a pleasure to be able to make this painstakingly...
Over the last couple of months we have published two volumes about Roman remains in England: Roman London and Eburacum, Roman York. These have been part of our current digitisation of the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments inventory series for England. This...
by Katherine Quinn (IHR library trainee 2012-13) Though not the first travel guides ever written, the “Baedekers” contain several original quirks and features that must have influenced today’s Lonely Planet and Time Out writers. Starting off in the Travel Writing...
For this month’s competition the voting among my colleagues gave us a shortlist of three. In no particular order the two runners-up were: Tudor Barlow’s picture of the cloisters at Gloucester Cathedral This will be a familiar setting to many but the light...
The International Journal for Maritime History [1] ran a special forum on a variety of projects, some new, some old and some in development. In Some implications from the Transatlantic slave trade for maritime databases, David Eltis discusses the development of the...
The Permissions Controller for the digitisation of the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments of England, Rachael Lazenby, wrote an introductory guide to copyright for images, drawing on her experience on this project and on other work that she has done. Originally...
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