…is the title of an exhaustive survey of the Burney newspaper collection in The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 104:1 2010 p. 5-52. The original collection, purchased from the library of the Rev. Dr. Charles Burney (1757-1817), actually begins...
British History Online (BHO) has been generously funded by the American Friends of the IHR to digitise more of the Alumni Oxonienses, a listing of members of the University of Oxford compiled by Joseph Foster.Last year, also with funding from the American Friends, we...
A report in Media History outlines the problems accessing European television history, from the obvious language barriers, to archival content, meta data (and basic cataloguing), as well as IPR issues. However developments and innovations in digital and web...
Many people would see our current celebrity-obsessed age as standing in stark contrast to the past, when renown was based on solid achievements. Fred Inglis, in his Short History of Celebrity (reviewed here this week in Reviews in History), demonstrates that the...
Christine D. Myers (Franklin University) has produced a useful bibliography of online resources for the study of Victorian women (in Women’s History Review, 18:5, 2009). Intended as a guide for teaching courses the bibliography is wide ranging and covers...
The award-winning documentary maker, Laurence Rees, has produced a site on Second World War. He wrote and directed the television histories, The Nazis – a warning from history and World War II behind closed doors. He has also written books on the Holocaust and...
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