Making screencasts

If you are a user of British History Online, you may have noticed a couple of screencasts (video tutorials) that have appeared on the site over the last few weeks.This is something that we have felt the site could do with for a while, but getting to this point has...

The Annual Pollard Prize

Last year’s Pollard Prize winning article has been published online in our Early View issue: The descent of family land in later Anglo-Saxon England by Julie MumbyThe Pollard Prize is awarded annually for the best paper presented at an IHR seminar by a...

Serendipitous discoveries – from Conservatism to Fabianism

Part of the joy of searching the internet is the serendipitous discovery of new resources. While searching for some reference to the Gerard Du Maurier play An Englishman’s Home (1909) I came across a mention of the Conservative Party Archive and its poster collection....

Historical Research – new online articles

The following articles are now available online in Historical Research’s Early View issue: Exhibiting a new Japan: the Tokyo Olympics of 1964 and Expo ’70 in Osaka by Sandra WilsonA catalyst for secession? European divisions on the parliamentary right of...