The gruesome fate of Guy Fawkes after the failure of the Gunpowder Plot can be traced in detail in the early modern sources published through British History Online. The richest of these is the Calendar of State Papers Domestic for the reign of James I, which begins,...
In late November the IHR will be hosting two interlinked events on the topic of academic history and historical fiction. The conference (17-18 November) and virtual conference (21-25 November) is entitled Novel approaches: from academic history to historical fiction....
All issues of the Bibliography of Swiss History/Bibliographie de l’histoire suisse are now available online. The BSH volumes 1913-1974 have been scanned, tagged, and uploaded. The digitization was carried out with the agreement of the Swiss History Association,...
The recent bank bail-out is still fresh in the public mind, as shown by the Occupy London campaign. A look at volume XII(2) of English Historical Documents reveals that bank bail-outs are nothing new. Document 62 is an article in The Economist from December 1890, in...
One noticeable oddity in the first few sessions of the new Digital History seminar has been the slight reluctance amongst some scholars to consider themselves a “digital historian.” Just as one sometimes hears the phrase “I’m not a feminist,...
A search of Connected Histories for the word ‘Halloween’ produces only 13 results for the whole period 1500-1900. Similarly there are only 15 mentions of ‘All Hallows Eve” – with all of these simply referring to it as a date (for example...
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