Just a quick advertisement for our upcoming workshop specifically designed for up and coming authors of historical fiction: How to Get the History Right in your Historical Fiction: A workshop for authors. As you may be aware, last year the IHR hosted a conference...
We are pleased to announce that British History Online has been awarded funding by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) under strand B, ‘Enhancing the Sustainability of Digital Collections’, of the 16/11 Digital Infrastructure call. Entitled...
A few weeks ago I was walking through the Dutch rooms in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford when, to my great surprise, I found myself standing in front of a painting by Vermeer. There are only five Vermeer paintings held in collections in Great Britain, and this...
The history of Lent is complicated. It touches on two other complicated subjects: the history of early Christianity and calendrics. Anyone who would like an in-depth treatment of the latter, with a bit of the former thrown in, should turn to the second volume of...
It’s bitterly cold in most of the UK at the moment, with overnight temperatures lower than -10° C in some areas. However, there’s no prospect of the Thames freezing over just yet. A search of Connected Histories reveals that this was a not uncommon...
The British Association for Local History has produced a useful booklet – Internet Sites for Local Historians: A directory. In some ways it takes a leap of faith to even begin to quantify (never mind qualify) websites for historians. Such an undertaking can be...
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