Reflecting on digital projects at the IHR

IHR Digital has a growing collection of papers in SAS-Space, the e-repository for the School of Advanced Study. It includes papers relating to projects such as the recently launched Connected Histories, as well as British History Online and the Bibliography of British...

1642 – and EMLoT – Early Modern London Theatres

1642 was a significant year for the English Renaissance Theatre – it closed!. “Public Stage Plays shall cease, and be forborn, instead of which are recommended to the People of this Land the profitable and seasonable considerations of Repentance, Reconciliation, and...

Survey of London monographs complete

With the launch of volumes 13 to 17, the digitisation of the Survey of London monograph series as part of British History Online is now complete. The last batch of monographs covers buildings as diverse as the Queen’s House at Greenwich, the College of Arms, and...

The National Archives’ new Discovery Service

At the launch of Connected Histories yesterday (more to follow on that next week), David Thomas, Director of Technology at The National Archives (TNA) unveiled in public for the first time the beta version of the new TNA catalogue. At the moment you can access the...

The more the merrier when it comes to open-access publishing

The IHR’s Reviews in History has recently partnered with recensio.net to bring its reviews to a wider audience than ever before. Recensio.net, launched in January, is an open-access reviews platform for European history developed by the Bavarian State Library,...