British Parliaments and Assemblies: A Bibliography of Printed Materials

The Parliamentary History Yearbook Trust and Wiley have published online the British Parliaments and Assemblies: A Bibliography of Printed Materials. It is freely accessible to all who are interested in the history of British parliaments. With over 21,500 entries and,...

Alumni Oxonienses

The Alumni Oxonienses, 1500-1714, is now complete on British History Online. This series lists all known members of Oxford University from 1500 up to 1714. A second series, covering 1715 to 1886, was compiled by the same editor, Joseph Foster: we very much hope to add...

The digital history of mathematics

There is a joke among mathematicians that if you have an idea that no one has ever had before you should check, before publishing, that it’s not in Gauss’s papers. Gauss seems to have anticipated later findings across practically all areas of mathematics,...

Exploring the Domain Dark Archive

Bookings are open now for the first of a series of day workshops on the Domain Dark Archive, a comprehensive archive of websites from the UK web domain for the period 1996 to 2010. Our new JISC-funded AADDA project (Analytical Access to the Domain Dark Archive) is a...

New resources for architectural history

We’re just about to begin work on a new digitisation project: of the inventory volumes of the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. The definition of a monument is widely drawn, to include historic buildings and structures of all kinds, and...

Searching for condoms on ECCO

Perhaps it’s the library geek in me but I enjoy articles which describe the construction and improvement of online searching. One such piece is by Patrick Spedding about using the Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO). This collection is derived from the...