‘It may hereby please you to understand’: early modern petitions on British History Online
By Brodie Waddell September 2019 saw publication of the first tranche of content from The Power of Petitioning in Seventeenth Century England — a research project to transcribe and publish more than 2000 petitions composed and sent between the late sixteenth and...
You’ve got (medieval) mail: Calendars of Patent Rolls now on British History Online
By Adam Chapman If you happen to be a medieval or early modern historian of the British Isles you probably won’t need to be told about the value of the Patent Rolls and why it’s good news that British History Online (BHO) is adding them to its digitised collection of...
The proceedings of the ‘Happy Parliament’: 1624 records of House of Commons now online
Philip Baker, former Research Fellow of the History of Parliament and Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, explains the background to and completion of a History of Parliament project for which he was Editor. This new online resource provides access to primary...The Food and Drinke of Samuel Pepys
This week is Being Human, the annual festival of the humanities and the arts – this year on the theme of ‘Lost and Found’. For its contribution, the IHR takes you back to the 1660s, and the loss of Charles II’s warship, The London, which sank in the Thames estuary in...