Parliament, page scans and post mortem inquisitions

May 8, 2015

If 2014 was the year of rebuilding at BHO, 2015 is (so far) the year of publishing. Since the team was busy with the redevelopment in 2014, it had been a long time since we were able to add new content so we are now very glad to have an abundance of newly published...

New reviews: Broadcasting buildings, Joan of Arc, Demonology and Tawney

May 7, 2015

First up this week we have Broadcasting Buildings: Architecture on the Wireless, 1927-1945 by Shundana Yusaf, as Laura Carter and the author discuss a playful and scholarly new book (no. 1765, with response here). Then we turn to Helen Castor’s Joan of Arc: A History....

Sources of Evidence for Automatic Indexing of Political Texts

May 5, 2015

Political texts on the Web, documenting laws and policies and the process leading to them, are of key importance to government, industry, and every individual citizen.  Yet access to such texts is difficult due to the ever increasing volume and complexity of the...

Jacobitism and the three Stuart kingdoms

Apr 27, 2015

  This post has been written for us by Ralph Stevens, Jacobite Studies Trust Postdoctoral Fellow at the IHR, @HistoryRalph, ralph.stevens@ucd.ie This coming September will mark the three-hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the 1715 Jacobite Rebellion, the...