We have just published four new volumes of the Journal of House of Lords on British History Online. These are volumes 31-34, which cover the period 1765-76, and thus are a useful source for, among other things, the British reaction to increasing tension and hostility...
So who has been the best prime minster of Britain since 1945? A 2010 survey in The Political Quarterly [1] lists the following order:-AttleeThatcherBlairMacmillanWilsonChurchillCallaghanMajorHeathBrownDouglas-HomeEdenBased on a survey of academics, the list echoes a...
A few weeks ago, as mentioned in an earlier post, I attended the Linked Data course at the Oxford Digital Humanities Summer School. As part of the course we wrote (or tried to write) some SPARQL queries. SPARQL is the query language used to interrogate RDF and was...
Nixon’s secretary, Rose Mary Woods, from the Gerald R. Ford Library and MuseumLast week I attended the Oxford Digital Humanities Summer School, where I was taking the course on linked data. As well as the course sessions there were plenary lectures, of which one...
A recent issue of Media History has a special issue simply entitled “Ephemera”. The essays outline various justifications for the value of ephemera for historical research, covering such subjects as American humour in the late-Victorian British press, agony aunt...
Last year the IHR celebrated its 90th anniversary. For much of that time, the IHR has occupied the North wing of Senate House without much in the way of renovation. Those of you who have visited us over the last decade or so will have noticed how marvellous the...
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