Whenever someone asks me who is my favourite Chinese emperor I always reply, “Qianlong, who else?” Like other early Qing emperors, Qianlong was a fanatical antiquarian and collected and preserved countless cultural artefacts from China’s past, which...
The following new articles are available in the Early View issue of Historical Research:The South Sea Company and its plan for a naval expedition in 1712. Shinsuke Satsuma‘A Warning Against Quack Doctors’: the Old Bailey trial of Indian oculists, 1893. Sumita...
The latest update to BBIH, published on 2 February 2012, contains 4,062 new records, bringing the overall total to nearly 514,000. The new records include some 600 relating to Irish history and 187 dealing with the history of London, including information on newly...
Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee ProcessionBuckingham Palace, 1897Sixty years of The Queen’s reign will be celebrated in her Diamond Jubilee this year. It’s a massive event that will be subject to exhaustive coverage, and it provides historians with a...
Yesterday I went to a lecture by Robert Darnton, on ‘The Digital Public Library of America: Current Plans and Future Prospects’. Darnton is University Librarian at Harvard and is centrally involved in the Digital Public Library of America, which is due to...
We’re delighted to be able to publicise our programme for this term, full details of which are available on the main IHR site.First up is Professor Magnus Huber (Universitaet Giessen), who will speak on what can be learned from the Old Bailey Online corpus for...
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