IHR book sale

16 June 2011 – 18 June 2011 The imminent relocation of the IHR seemed like a good opportunity for a spring cleaning of our publications store.  We will not have enough room to house all of our books in our temporary space over in Senate House South, so we will...

The VCH red volumes

Author: Jessica Davies (VCH Publications Manager) As Publications Manager for the Victoria County History I must confess that, contrary to popular belief, I do not have my head buried in red volumes every day. Increasingly I find myself working ‘digitally’, whether on...

Programme Meeting for usability

Last Wednesday, we had a JISC programme meeting which all of the projects attended. There were some really high-profile projects there but I was suprised that so few ‘researchers’ attended – it was dominated by software professionals (I should...

The Local Historian and the internet

The 2010 November issue of The Local Historian has an article by Jacquelené Fillmore entitled, Local history internet sites: an update for 2010. She has helpfully published a series of such articles since 2007 (see volumes and issues, 37:3; 38:3, 39:1 and 39:3). As...

Digital forum – Processing the [Victorian] past

The August 2010 issue of the Journal of Victorian Culture has a digital forum in which the quantitative research of digital resources is discussed. There are three contributions which document both the production of such resources and their uses. Richard Deswarte...