Pollard Prize 2011

Jul 14, 2011

The winner of the 2011 Pollard Prize is Siobhan Talbott with ‘British commercial interests on the French Atlantic coast, c.1560-1713 (a paper originally given at the Economic and Social History of the Premodern World, 1500-1800 seminar). The article will appear...

New datasets for London history

Jun 27, 2011

Recently added to British History Online is the first in a series of datasets for early modern London. Generated by the People in Place project, each dataset is focussed on family and household in a group of London parishes in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries....
Has open access come of age ?

Has open access come of age ?

Jun 22, 2011

‘Open Access comes of age’ was the headline in a recent issue of Nature News, the article reporting a recent study published in Public Library of Science One, that found that the number of articles in freely accessible journals is growing at a rate of 20%...

Programme Meeting for usability

Jun 6, 2011

Last Wednesday, we had a JISC programme meeting which all of the projects attended. There were some really high-profile projects there but I was suprised that so few ‘researchers’ attended – it was dominated by software professionals (I should...

The Local Historian and the internet

Jun 1, 2011

The 2010 November issue of The Local Historian has an article by Jacquelené Fillmore entitled, Local history internet sites: an update for 2010. She has helpfully published a series of such articles since 2007 (see volumes and issues, 37:3; 38:3, 39:1 and 39:3). As...