New reviews: Legal history, slavery, tabloids and consorts

We start this week with David Chan Smith’s Sir Edward Coke and the Reformation of the Laws: Religion, Politics and Jurisprudence, 1578–1616, as Daniel Gosling and the author discuss an impressive and readable legal history drawing on a huge range of legal cases and...

New IHR Digital project to be funded by AHRC

IHR Digital is very pleased to announce that we have been awarded funding by the Arts and Humanities Research Council for a new project called the Thesaurus of British and Irish History as SKOS (TOBIAS). The IHR will publish as a web ontology the Bibliography of...

Toronto summer interns’ work

Here Kaspar writes about the work of the project’s two summer interns: Roman Polyanovsky and Tim Alberdingk Thijm, two Computer Science undergraduates who were working as summer interns on the Dilipad project, have created a video to showcase the project to a...