The Royal Society Picture Library database

The Royal Society Centre for History of Science has developed an online picture database of historical images from the Society’s collections. The website acts as a showcase for the Society’s extensive picture resources and it is hoped that this will...

InScribe: a new way to learn Palaeography

Welcome to InScribe: Palaeography Learning Materials! This new project, based at the School of Advanced Study (University of London), was devised by Prof Michelle Brown (who left the School in July) and Dr Jane Winters. InScribe is a new online resource (VLE) to...

Horatio Nelson on Connected Histories

One of our summer interns from Leicester University, Charlotte Ward, writes in a guest post: For my BA dissertation I am looking at ‘Crime and Punishment in the British Navy and Army during the wars with France from 1793-1815’ so I decided that I would create a...

The Stamp Act Crisis on Connected Histories

This is a guest post by Kathryn Hemingway, one of IHR Digital’s summer interns from the University of Leicester. In attempting to create my first connection on Connected Histories, I chose the topic of the Stamp Act Crisis of 1765. It was my intention to choose...

Gleebox

Like most people who have had RSI, I sympathise with the words of the Cole Porter song: Comes the measles, you can quarantine the room. Comes a mouse, you can chase it with a broom. When my RSI has been at its worst I have unplugged my mouse and put it away, so that I...