Digitising the Calendars of Inquisitions post mortem

This post originally appeared on the Mapping the Medieval Countryside blog and is reposted here with permission from Michael Hicks Work has continued on making the published inquisitions post mortem freely accessible in the sixteen months since funding ceased, and we...

Open Source Historical Mapping: Using QGIS

This post has kindly been written for us by Dr Justin Colson of the University of Essex I have been teaching a short course on Historical Mapping and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) as part of the IHR’s research training programme for several years now, always...

Low Countries Fellow in IHR Library

Welcome to the inaugural blog post in a series promoting the Low Countries collection in the IHR Library. My name is Stijn van Rossem and I took up a one-year post-doctoral fellowship in March. In the months to come, I will explore and promote the remarkable holdings...

Changing perceptions of motherhood: maternal concepts and realities

As spring is traditionally the season associated with new life and fertility after the long winter months, now seems a timely moment to explore the latest academic publications on the subject of Motherhood featured in the Bibliography of British and Irish History. The...