Report on the ‘Missing links: the enduring web’ conference

The conference, organised by the Joint Informations Systems Committee (JISC), the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and the UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC), was timely and of great significance (all of the presentations are available on the DPC website). In the...

Collective volumes on RHS Bibliography

One of the strengths of the Bibliography is the documenting of chapters within collective volumes such as conference proceedings and Festschriften. The collating of such information can be difficult and time-consuming. Details are gathered from the British National...

Reviews in History – New Reviews 30 July 2009

We conclude our month of city-based pieces today with the following three reviews.In Portuguese Colonial Cities in the Early Modern World Liam Brockey edits a collection of articles focussing on cities with various degrees of connection to the Portuguese empire....

More House of Lords Journals on BHO

We have uploaded another three volumes of the Journal of the House of Lords: volumes 21, 22, and 23, which cover the years 1718 to 1730. In partnership with The History of Parliament Trust we are able to digitise 19 volumes this summer, to add to the volumes already...

Pollard Prize 2009

Congratulations to the winner of the 2009 Pollard Prize, Sebastian Prange, for his paper ‘”Measuring by the bushell”: reweighing the Indian Ocean pepper trade’. This year’s runner up was Katharina Rietzler, with ‘Before the cultural...

Reviews in History – New Reviews 23 July 2009

Prose and poetry are the source materials for two very different city-based studies this week. First James Gregory (no. 771) reviews Guilty Money: The City of London in Victorian and Edwardian Culture by Ranald Michie (see here for his response), which looks at the...