The latest update to BBIH, published on 2 February 2012, contains 4,062 new records, bringing the overall total to nearly 514,000. The new records include some 600 relating to Irish history and 187 dealing with the history of London, including information on newly...
Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee ProcessionBuckingham Palace, 1897Sixty years of The Queen’s reign will be celebrated in her Diamond Jubilee this year. It’s a massive event that will be subject to exhaustive coverage, and it provides historians with a...
Yesterday I went to a lecture by Robert Darnton, on ‘The Digital Public Library of America: Current Plans and Future Prospects’. Darnton is University Librarian at Harvard and is centrally involved in the Digital Public Library of America, which is due to...
We’re delighted to be able to publicise our programme for this term, full details of which are available on the main IHR site.First up is Professor Magnus Huber (Universitaet Giessen), who will speak on what can be learned from the Old Bailey Online corpus for...
Perceptions of Scandinavia at the moment are governed by its seemingly endless production line of quality crime fiction and drama – the likes of Wallander, The Killing and the ubiquitious Girl With the Dragon Tattoo franchise, not to mention the terrifying work...
The latest issue of the journal is out now and may be of interest to imperial historians as the articles focus on the fall of Malaya and Burma. The first, by Andrew B. Buchanan, The War Crisis and the Decolonization of India, December 1941 –September 1942: A Political...
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