The Network of Expert Centres brings together centres and organisations in the UK which have expertise in digital arts and humanities research and scholarship. It facilitates collaboration in support of five broad aims:to advocate, promote and raise awareness and...
This week on Reviews in History two new resources for historians of slavery are reviewed, Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database and Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007. The latter date is of course significant in marking the 200th anniversary...
British History Online has been awarded funding by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) as part of its Impact and Embedding programme. The award will allow us to carry out a detailed investigation of how people actually use digital online resources, both in...
Anyone interested in how the profession of nursing in this country developed as it did should check out a new institutional history of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN). Reviewed this week in Reviews in History, the book charts the complicated path the RCN had to...
The Mexican Suitcase is actually 3 cardboard boxes. They contained over 4,000 negatives of photographs taken by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David Seymour taken during the Spanish Civil War. For many years the photographs were thought to be lost but they were...
Charlotte Trower (1855-1928) is a little-known amateur botanical artist who worked with another amateur botanist George Druce to produce over 1,800 scientifically accurate watercolours of British flora. Her life, art, and her collection are outlined in a recent...
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