Curriers’ Company London History Essay Prize winner 2015
This post has been kindly written for us by Ian Stone, Isobel Thornley Junior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research. I first saw the Curriers’ Company London history essay prize...Parliament, page scans and post mortem inquisitions
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
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
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...