Coronation ceremony in late medieval England

by Michael Townsend (Collections Librarian) Title: Ceremonial de la coronación, unción y exequias de los reyes de Inglaterra Author: Pieter Christiaanszoon Bor Imprint: Pamplona : Gobierno de Navarra, 2008. (2 v.) Location: Classmark: B.2961/Ram This title provides us...

Seventeenth century history of the Dutch Wars

by Jennifer Higham Title: Nederlantsche oorloghen, beroerten, ende borgerlijcke oneenicheyden… Author: Pieter Christiaanszoon Bor Imprint: Leyden : Govert Basson ; Amsterdā : Michiel Colyn, 1621. (5 v.) Location: Classmark: ENN.38/Bor. This item is kept on...

BHO wins new funding

We are pleased to announce that British History Online has been awarded funding by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) under strand B, ‘Enhancing the Sustainability of Digital Collections’, of the 16/11 Digital Infrastructure call. Entitled...

The value of objects

A few weeks ago I was walking through the Dutch rooms in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford when, to my great surprise, I found myself standing in front of a painting by Vermeer. There are only five Vermeer paintings held in collections in Great Britain, and this...

Lenten fare

The history of Lent is complicated. It touches on two other complicated subjects: the history of early Christianity and calendrics. Anyone who would like an in-depth treatment of the latter, with a bit of the former thrown in, should turn to the second volume of...