Apr 19, 2017
This post has kindly been written by Professor Richard Cust from the Centre for Reformation and Early Modern Studies at the University of Birmingham. The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640 is now freely available on British History Online. Cheating at cards is nothing new....
Apr 4, 2017
This post has kindly been written by Dr. Philip Carter, Head of IHR Digital at the Institute of Historical Research. As you may have seen, last week the Metropolitan Police moved into their very smart new residence, between London’s Whitehall and the Embankment. It’s...
May 17, 2016
Modern students study their early modern predecessors This post has been kindly written for us by Dr Adam Crymble. Adam is a Lecturer of Digital History at the University of Hertfordshire and an Editor of the Programming Historian. He was also the Project Manager of...
May 13, 2016
This post originally appeared on the Mapping the Medieval Countryside blog and is reposted here with permission from Michael Hicks Work has continued on making the published inquisitions post mortem freely accessible in the sixteen months since funding ceased, and we...
Dec 21, 2015
Hello, my name is Laura Jäger and I am an undergraduate student from Germany, studying library science at the Technical University of Cologne. As a part of my course I was given the opportunity to do my 16 week combined internship at the IHR (Institute of Historical...
Dec 4, 2015
On 21 November, we held two simultaneous Wikipedia edit-a-thons in London and Leicester as part of the Being Human Festival. We did a lot of promotion of these events beforehand so we thought we should tell you how they went. An edit-a-thon is an event where editors...
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