Oliver Rafferty examines the ironic contours of the relationship between the Catholic Church and the British empire in the period 1800–1921. He reveals not only how the Vatican appreciated British government largesse but also that successive popes were quite prepared...
A new website has been launched which, according to press reports, details every single law made since 1267. The new website (legislation.gov.uk) brings together the legislative content currently held on the Office of Public Sector Information website and revised...
Female rulers have been the subject of much interest among historians in recent years, with medieval queens such as Margaret of Anjou and Eleanor of Provence having volumes devoted to them, and a veritable industry springing up of studies of Tudor queens, most notably...
A new website has been launched which, according to press reports, details every single law made since 1267. The new website (legislation.gov.uk) brings together the legislative content currently held on the Office of Public Sector Information website and revised...
Monasticon Hibernicum is a searchable database of Irish ecclesiastical sites. Based on the work of antiquarian Mervyn Archdall (1723-1791) the website was launched in 2003 and is updated. It includes over 5,000 sites from the 5th to 12th centuries. An article in...
David Kynaston has successfully blended MO data with other sources in his popular recent studies of Austerity Britain and Family Britain, and with the release of the Mass Observation Archive online this material has been made far more easily availble to historians....
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