Andrew Minting on RCHME, Salisbury

In the latest in our series of posts on the RCHME series, we have a guest post by Andrew Minting, conservation officer in Salisbury, about the importance of the Salibury volume. Andrew writes: If there’s one source of information I commend to those researching the...

Sarah Rose on Westmorland

In another in our series of posts by experts in particular counties, Dr Sarah Rose of Lancaster University writes for us about the RCHME volume for Westmorland: I would like to reiterate the comments made by Professor Dyer, written in response to the online...

Peter Salt on RCHME, Cambridgeshire

British History Online has now completed its digitisation of the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments of England series; all volumes are now freely available to read online. The following post originally appeared on our British History Online blog. Of the last...

Chris Dyer on RCHME, Northants

British History Online recently published the six inventory volumes for the county of Northamptonshire. To help to put these volumes in context, Professor Chris Dyer has kindly written a guest blog post explaining their importance. Chris Dyer is Emeritus Professor of...

Roman Inscriptions in the RCHME

Over the last couple of months we have published two volumes about Roman remains in England: Roman London and Eburacum, Roman York. These have been part of our current digitisation of the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments inventory series for England. This...

April photo competition winner

For this month’s competition the voting among my colleagues gave us a shortlist of three. In no particular order the two runners-up were: Tudor Barlow’s picture of the cloisters at Gloucester Cathedral This will be a familiar setting to many but the light...