Sep 3, 2014
This post was kindly written for us by Caitlin Brown, one of our interns via the Leicester University / IHR Digital programme. I decided to use Connected Histories to research an area that I knew something about, but that I would like to investigate more. I picked the...
Aug 5, 2014
This post was kindly written for us by IHR Digital intern Beth Page. As a History and American studies student, I thought it would be interesting to use Connected Histories to explore the British interpretation of Abraham Lincoln. I decided to look for sources that...
Jan 20, 2014
Our intern Paris Jones has kindly written the following post for us: Since my sophomore year as an undergraduate, the subject of witchcraft had always fascinated me. My final undergraduate research paper was on witchcraft in the Elizabethan Era. I decided to continue...
Sep 6, 2012
One of our summer interns from Leicester University, Charlotte Ward, writes in a guest post: For my BA dissertation I am looking at ‘Crime and Punishment in the British Navy and Army during the wars with France from 1793-1815’ so I decided that I would create a...
Sep 3, 2012
This is a guest post by Kathryn Hemingway, one of IHR Digital’s summer interns from the University of Leicester. In attempting to create my first connection on Connected Histories, I chose the topic of the Stamp Act Crisis of 1765. It was my intention to choose...
Feb 8, 2012
It’s bitterly cold in most of the UK at the moment, with overnight temperatures lower than -10° C in some areas. However, there’s no prospect of the Thames freezing over just yet. A search of Connected Histories reveals that this was a not uncommon...
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