John Dee, Tudor Polymath

To complement the popular exhibition of Scholar, courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee at the Royal College of Physicians, it seems an opportune moment to showcase the resources listed in the BBIH. John Dee was a man of many interests, and his expertise in...

The Origin of the Student Species

Modern students study their early modern predecessors This post has been kindly written for us by Dr Adam Crymble. Adam is a Lecturer of Digital History at the University of Hertfordshire and an Editor of the Programming Historian. He was also the Project Manager of...

Digitising the Calendars of Inquisitions post mortem

This post originally appeared on the Mapping the Medieval Countryside blog and is reposted here with permission from Michael Hicks Work has continued on making the published inquisitions post mortem freely accessible in the sixteen months since funding ceased, and we...

Open Source Historical Mapping: Using QGIS

This post has kindly been written for us by Dr Justin Colson of the University of Essex I have been teaching a short course on Historical Mapping and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) as part of the IHR’s research training programme for several years now, always...