Calendar of Treasury Books Complete

All 32 volumes of the Calendar of Treasury Books are now available on British History Online. These volumes show in great detail the income, expenditure and debts of the government between the Restoration in 1660 and 1718, including information on, for example,...

Why Aren’t Researchers Using Web 2.0?

There’s an interesting article in Research Information this week, by web analyst David Stuart: he discusses the possible reasons that ‘Web 2.0 fails to excite today’s researchers’. As Stuart says, researchers are, on the face of it, natural...

Small and Special? Great Ormond Street Patient Admissions Database

A new electronic resource featuring almost a million patient records from Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital is reviewed this week on Reviews in History. This database, covering the period between the 1850s and the start of the First World War, is freely...

Early English Laws website

The Early English Laws website went live today, a very exciting step for all of us in the project team. The editions, translations, manuscript images etc. will all be added over the next couple of years, but there’s plenty to be reading in the meantime.

Sex and the Servants

The often confused and transgressive relationships between upstairs and downstairs have been a perennial literary subject, but the ways in which they have been depicted have changed significantly over time.Kristina Straub’s new work, Domestic Affairs: Intimacy,...

Historical Research – new articles online

Three new Historical Research articles have been published on Early View:Administrative efficiency in fourteenth-century England: the delivery of writs based on evidence from the register of Bishop Martival. MICHAEL RAYThe archive of the official of Stow and the...