Survey of London monographs complete

With the launch of volumes 13 to 17, the digitisation of the Survey of London monograph series as part of British History Online is now complete. The last batch of monographs covers buildings as diverse as the Queen’s House at Greenwich, the College of Arms, and...

The National Archives’ new Discovery Service

At the launch of Connected Histories yesterday (more to follow on that next week), David Thomas, Director of Technology at The National Archives (TNA) unveiled in public for the first time the beta version of the new TNA catalogue. At the moment you can access the...

The more the merrier when it comes to open-access publishing

The IHR’s Reviews in History has recently partnered with recensio.net to bring its reviews to a wider audience than ever before. Recensio.net, launched in January, is an open-access reviews platform for European history developed by the Bavarian State Library,...

IHR Research Seminar Live Event: Wednesday 16 March 2011

Metropolitan History and Britain in the Long 18th Century 16 March 2011, 5.15pmWolfson Room, IHRJerry White (Birkbeck)City Rivalries and the making of Modern London, 1720-1770The Institute of Historical Research is pleased to present our first live streamed Research...

London hearth taxes

A major new dataset for seventeenth century London is now live on British History Online. Listing name, residence and other information about the inhabitants of London and Middlesex for three collections of the tax in the 1660s, it is the product of the AHRC-funded...