This post was kindly written by Kelly Spring, a Committee Member of the Friends of the IHR and a PhD Candidate at the University of Manchester. During the long, warm days of July, our thoughts at the IHR turn to the annual Friends’ outing. In years past,...
We start this week with Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science by Richard Yeo, as Philippa Hellawell and the author discuss an intelligent, well-researched, and informative account of the practice of note-taking in early modern science (no. 1811, with...
This is a post by Kaspar Beelen. Kaspar is a post-doctoral researcher with the Toronto part of the project team. Introduction For historians, the idea of “automated” content analysis is still contested and treated with a justified dose of suspicion. How...
A few months ago, I posted an image of seventeen volumes to the BHO Twitter account. These volumes were from several different series: London Record Society, Victoria County History Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire and Calendar of Scottish papers. That day, we were...
We start this week with The Destruction of the Medieval Chinese Aristocracy by Nicolas Tackett, as Michael Hoeckelmann and the author discuss a work that will revolutionise our understanding of medieval China (no. 1807, with response here). Next up is David D’Avray’s...
The Dr Seng Tee Lee Centre, Senate House Library October 27th 2015 The University of London’s Senate House Library will be hosting a symposium in connection with a new project to begin later this year being jointly run by the Centre for Metropolitan History at the...
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