Digital humanities and British studies

A panel session organised by Tim Hitchcock and Jason Kelly at the North American Conference on British Studies on 13 November demonstrated that the digital humanities, and digital history in particular, are thriving in the field of British studies. The panel brought...

BHO to add more of the Alumni Oxonienses

British History Online (BHO) has been generously funded by the American Friends of the IHR to digitise more of the Alumni Oxonienses, a listing of members of the University of Oxford compiled by Joseph Foster.Last year, also with funding from the American Friends, we...

Exploring Europe’s TV history: from "BIRTH of TV" to "EUscreen"

A report in Media History outlines the problems accessing European television history, from the obvious language barriers, to archival content, meta data (and basic cataloguing), as well as IPR issues. However developments and innovations in digital and web...

Celebrity – a modern phenomenon?

Many people would see our current celebrity-obsessed age as standing in stark contrast to the past, when renown was based on solid achievements. Fred Inglis, in his Short History of Celebrity (reviewed here this week in Reviews in History), demonstrates that the...

Useful online sources about Victorian Women

Christine D. Myers (Franklin University) has produced a useful bibliography of online resources for the study of Victorian women (in Women’s History Review, 18:5, 2009). Intended as a guide for teaching courses the bibliography is wide ranging and covers...