RESAW@Porto2018 – An introduction to web archives for Humanities and Social Science research

May 21, 2018

This one-day workshop will be held as part of the 22nd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, on 13 September 2018, Porto, Portugal. Workshop organisers Daniel Gomes (Head of Arquivo.pt, Advanced Services Department, FCT- Foundation for...

Latest reviews – William of Malmesbury, Civil War, Nostradamus and New England

May 3, 2018

We start today with Discovering William of Malmesbury, edited by Emily Dolmans, Rodney M. Tomson and Emily A. Winkler. Charlie Rozier assesses a wide-ranging re-examination of a leading contributor to the 12th-century Anglo-Norman historiographical turn (no. 2239,...

Women’s Suffrage at Home and Away

Apr 30, 2018

By Sara Charles Although the history of the women’s suffrage movement (and particularly the Suffragettes) often focusses on London, there was huge amount of activity throughout the U.K. and further afield in the latter part of the nineteenth and early twentieth...

Wohl Library Seminar 2018: Workshop on Digital Archives

Apr 23, 2018

    On March 21st the IHR Wohl library held a Digital Archives event giving a chance for researchers, archivists, historians and anyone with an interest in history to come and listen to three experts showcase how to use their digital archival tools. Each...

Latest reviews – crusades, workhouses, bishops and Richard the Lionheart

Apr 12, 2018

We start today with Reconfiguring the Fifteenth-Century Crusade, edited by Norman Housley. James Doherty reviews an exploration of the interplay of established crusading ideals and practices with the issues that occupied the attention of 15th-century Christendom (no....

Latest reviews – Ottomans, Nazi administrators, Godfrey of Bouillon and reproduction response

Apr 5, 2018

We start today with Michael Provence’s The Last Ottoman Generation and the Making of the Modern Middle East. Ramazan Hakkı Öztan and the author debate an exemplary reinterpretation of the history of the inter-war Middle East (no. 2231, with response here). Then...