Podcasts – Voluntary Action History Seminar

The IHR has begun a trial programme to make available podcasts of its seminars, and the first of these is now online. If you’re interested in listening to Lynsey Cullen’s talk on The First Lady Almoner: The Appointment, Position and Findings of Miss Mary...

RHS Bibliography adds 8,000 new records

The Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish History has just released an update, adding 8,000 more records to the database, which now totals nearly 470,000 records. 3,150 of the new records relate to Irish history, most of them coming from Irish...

Parliament Rolls of Medieval England

British History Online can now announce an important new addition to our Premium Content section: the Parliament Rolls of Medieval England. This source consists of scholarly descriptions of every parliament held in England between 1275 (when a parliament in something...

Reviews in History – New Reviews 8 October 2009

Four new reviews and two responses have been published this week in Reviews in History.Our 800th review is a double-header, with Robert Poole tackling two histories of popular protest, Katrina Navickas’s Loyalism and Radicalism in Lancashire 1798-1815 and Adrian...

Robert Surtees’ History of Durham

The second volume of Surtees’ classic four-volume work on the County Palatine is now live on British History Online. Although incomplete at Surtees’ death in 1834, it has been described by a recent scholar as an ‘outstanding achievement’ and...

Reviews in History – New Reviews 24 September 2009

A variety of different subjects and periods are covered by the reviews this week.First Jill Steward appraises Susan Barton’s study of the beginnings of the Swiss tourism industry in her review (no. 796) of Healthy Living in the Alps: the Origins of Winter Tourism in...