This is a guest post by Evelijn Martinius, highlighting findings from her internship on the project in January 2015: Researchers often set out to test their hypothesis, but the question I would like to pose in the post is: how do they come to frame their hypothesis?...
We start with Mediatrix: Women, Politics and Literary Production in Early Modern England by Julie Crawford. Alice Ferron and the author discuss a book which provides innovative close readings of the lives and writings of some of early modern England’s most famous and...
This post originally appeared on the School of Advanced Study Blog. By Stephanie Taylor Although the SHARD project ended some time ago, in July 2012. The project identified four basic principles of digital preservation for researchers – start early, explain it, store...
First up is The Politics of Hospital Provision in Early Twentieth-Century Britain by Barry Doyle], as Martin Gorsky and the author discuss a new study of Britain’s inter-war health services (no. 1733, with response here). Then we turn to Lynn Hunt’s Writing History in...
The first 2015 update to the Bibliography of British and Irish History was released on 11 February. It contains just over 5,000 new records, bringing the overall total to 558,575. Over 500 of the new records cover books and articles relating to Irish history and the...
This post has kindly been written for us by the course tutor, Dr Lynne Walker Historical researchers are often drawn to material and visual culture but can feel out of their comfort zone when confronted with archives which include images and ‘things’ rather than...
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