The Trower Collection online – the work of a painter/botanist

Charlotte Trower (1855-1928) is a little-known amateur botanical artist who worked with another amateur botanist George Druce to produce over 1,800 scientifically accurate watercolours of British flora. Her life, art, and her collection are outlined in a recent...

Reviews in History trials new feature

Reviews in History, IHR Digital’s online journal, is offering a listing service of links to other reviews from today. The aim is to allow readers to compare and contrast a number of opinions of the books and resources featured each week. Some initial examples of...

Film and the Historian: from BUFVC

The British Universities Film and Video Council has a proven track record in delivering high-quality and contextualised digital resources. Their News On Screen is the leading resource for the study of newsfilm and cinemagazines documenting British newsfilm production,...

Archiving the web – a new partnership with the British Library

The IHR Digital team are delighted to announce an innovative new venture in partnership with the British Library. A new advisory panel of historians has been convened to work with the BL’s web archiving team in developing policy for identifying web content most...

Philhellenism across the ages

This week on Reviews we have a welcome reappraisal of a neglected classic, William McGrew’s Land and Revolution in Modern Greece, 1800-81, first published in 1985. Our reviewer Eugenia Russell reckons this to be the most important monograph on the early modern history...

Historical Research August 2010 (vol. 83, no. 221)

Highlights from the latest issue of Historical Research include:Anne Duggan on Roman, canon and common law in 12th-century England; Benjamin Wild on the jewel accounts of King Henry III; a look at the Free Christian Union, 1867–70, by Michael Ledger-Lomas and at war...