IHR Friends Film Evening – Henry V (1944)

2015 seems to be a year marking many notable anniversaries: 800 years since Magna Carta; 750 years since the first elected Parliament representing all of England; 200 years since the Battle of Waterloo; 50 years since the death of Sir Winston Churchill; and the First...

Accelerating and validating ex post facto hypothesis formulation

This is a guest post by Evelijn Martinius, highlighting findings from her internship on the project in January 2015: Researchers often set out to test their hypothesis, but the question I would like to pose in the post is: how do they come to frame their hypothesis?...

New reviews: Early modern women x 2, French Revolution, colonial Seoul

We start with Mediatrix: Women, Politics and Literary Production in Early Modern England by Julie Crawford. Alice Ferron and the author discuss a book which provides innovative close readings of the lives and writings of some of early modern England’s most famous and...

Why we should all think about data preservation

This post originally appeared on the School of Advanced Study Blog. By Stephanie Taylor Although the SHARD project ended some time ago, in July 2012. The project identified  four basic principles of digital preservation for researchers – start early, explain it, store...