New Historical Research articles online

Two new Historical Research articles have been published online:Some newly identified documents from the military survey of Warwickshire, 1522 by Penelope UptonRecorda splendidissima: the use of pipe rolls in the thirteenth century byRichard CassidySee our Early View...

New issue of Historical Research

The November issue of Historical Research (vol. LXXXIV, no. 226) is now available.Articles:Church, state and law: solutions to lay contumacy in the Anglo-Scottish borders during the later thirteenth century. Philippa M. HoskinGrave stuff: litigation with a London...

Bibliography of British and Irish History updated

 An update to the Bibliography of British and Irish history was published on 4 October. It contains 5,833 new records bringing the overall total to nearly 510,000. You can read more about the update or read more about the Bibliography in general.

The Murder of Bishops and the Decline of Violence

Steven Pinker’s new book about the decline of violence has been getting some media coverage in the past few weeks. I have been looking forward to reading the book for quite a while, and I was encouraged to see a positive review by the political scientist David...

Children’s literature and war – two authors’ views

In a radio interview, the authors Tomi Ungerer and Judith Kerr discuss their books about the Second World War and the Holocaust and how the events influenced their writings. Ungerer briefly outlines his time during the German occupation and discusses his book Otto:...

Lessons learned

Integrating usability into your work patterns means being able to demonstrate that you are in touch with the full range of users in a non-jargonistic way that excludes no-one. If you want to bootstrap usability, you will find that it has to influence and inform every...