The shock of the old

When I worked for EEBO-TCP it seemed to me that many features of early printing were replicated on early websites. The to-and-fro of intemperate bloggers, responding angrily to each other’s posts, reminded me of the equally intemperate pamphlet wars that I...

Digitisation of legal history

© United Kingdom Supreme CourtWhat is the heraldic emblem of Northern Ireland? I learned the answer on a recent tour of the UK Supreme Court, whose logo represents the constituent parts of the UK with their emblems.The court came into existence in 2009 and immediately...

The Future of the Past

The most recent session in our Digital History seminar was a little different from most: a roundtable with a very wide theme. Entitled ‘The Future of the Past’, it featured Melissa Terras (UCL), Adam Farquhar (British Library), Torsten Reimer (JISC) and...

An index of sustainability: ISURV

This project will investigate the creation of a sustainability index which will be the product of three variables: unique visitors, their return rate and the number of page requests per visit. Unique visitors: this is related to a number of factors, such as the...

More on the Bibliography on Swiss History

Following a previous blog on the online availability of the Bibliography on Swiss History (BSH) I can report that volumes for the years 2008 and 2009 of the Bibliography have now been published. They are available in PDF format on the BSH site. All the bibliographic...

Riots

For digital offices, IHR Digital always seems to have a lot of paper products around. At the nexus of Reviews in History sits the Great Cham of reviewing, Danny Millum, with teams of assistants bringing copies of the latest history titles to his desk. The editors of...