Bibliography of British and Irish History updated

An update to the Bibliography of British and Irish History was released on 9 October, containing 5,500 new records, of which over 3,500 deal with publications of 2011-12. Nearly 600 of the new records deal with the history of Ireland (or with Anglo-Irish relations and...

Podcasting and "Africa Past and Present"

It’s always nice to discover a new digital resource and an article which gives some context to it. Such is the case with an article on Africa Past and Present in South African Historical Journal [1] entitled Podcasting the Past: Africa Past and Present and...

Churchill, Thatcher, Major, Blair, Brown and Powell

In a previous blog I mentioned how Churchill has dominated historical writings and also mentioned that he had a journal devoted to him. Well now Churchill has his own online archive which is reviewed in Reviews in History. And so Churchill joins some of his successors...

Survey of London: Clerkenwell

This is a guest post from Mark Aston of the Islington Local History Centre, to mark the publication on British History Online of two volumes of the Survey of London covering Clerkenwell. In 2008, staff at Islington Local History based at Finsbury Library, in the heart...

The Royal Society Picture Library database

The Royal Society Centre for History of Science has developed an online picture database of historical images from the Society’s collections. The website acts as a showcase for the Society’s extensive picture resources and it is hoped that this will...

Launching digital tools modules: Semantic Mark-up and Text Mining

Two new inter-related free modules are now available on the History SPOT platform beginning a series on digital tools. The first is about semantic mark-up – this is a beginner’s guide to marking up a text in XML so that it is searchable for information pertinent to...