New reviews: Vikings, Bible and American revolution, Nazi education and wine

Apr 10, 2014

Another year, another failure by the IHR’s Team Certain Victory to live up to its billing in the University of London annual quiz, though we did at least secure full marks in the history round, so some honour was maintained. I’m not sure the loud declamations from our...

UK Hansards in PoliticalMashup format

Apr 3, 2014

[Cross-posted from PoliticalMashup] Debates of the House of Lords and House of Commons from 1935 until “yesterday” are available in the XML format developed within the PoliticalMashup project. The debates are available as one dump of XML files and through a...

New reviews: French in London, employees, the Irish Question and food supply

Apr 3, 2014

I’m always receptive to feedback (this is the sort of foolish statement that unleashes a barrage of abuse and ends with me weeping in a corner), and as a sharp-eyed reader had pointed out a couple of weeks ago that all the reviews we’d published that week had...

New reviews: Paper war, Ford Foundation, British colonialism and Ignacio de Loyola

Mar 27, 2014

We’re a little bit rushed in the IHR Digital office today, as me and my esteemed colleague Jonathan Blaney of BHO fame are giving talks this afternoon to visiting students from Northwestern University. It’s always an intimidating experience being on the same bill as...

Historians and their Data: Forthcoming Workshop exploring Research Data Management in History

Mar 25, 2014

A critical skill for anyone conducting research in History is their ability to properly manage their digital data. A research project is only as good as the evidence that underlies it and that evidence needs to be clear, sharable, and reusable. Join us on Monday 14...

Twenty-five years of the web

Mar 25, 2014

12 March 2014 marked the 25th birthday of the web. As you would expect, there was a great deal of coverage online, both in relatively formal reporting contexts (e.g. newspaper interviews with Sir Tim Berners-Lee) and in social media. The approach taken by Nominet (one...