This post was written for us by the Centre for Metropolitan History’s Mark Merry. The numerous Livery Companies of the City of London have evolved from their medieval forbears. Originally established as craft guilds to regulate specific trades, the Companies...
With the impending European polls looming, and issues of migration topical, we have an accidentally topical featured review for you this week, of Camilla Schofield’s Enoch Powell and the Making of Postcolonial Britain. Amy Whipple believes that this is an engaging,...
Apologies for the absence of reviews last week – your deputy editor was indulging his spiritual side, tramping part of the Camino de Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain. Mind you, given that I was staying in hotels and having my luggage ferried by the travel...
This post is by project team member Josh Cowls of the OII. In March 2012, as Mitt Romney was seeking to win over conservative voters in his bid to become the Republican Party’s presidential nominee, his adviser Eric Fehrnstrom discussed concerns over his appeal to...
Maarten Marx of PoliticalMashup has written a post explaining the background to the project: The PoliticalMashup project at the University of Amsterdam started collecting parliamentary proceedings in 2008. We started with Dutch proceedings and have since moved to...
The Institute of Historical Research has a long association with UK parliamentary data in digital form. We see our involvement in the Dilipad project as continuing with work we’ve had an interest in for some time: British History Online, our digital library, is...
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