Learning about British Medieval Scripts with the InScribe module

The Institute of Historical research are pleased to announce the release of InScribe Module 2: Script. This is the second instalment from the online platform InScribe: Palaeography Learning Materials and follows the introductory module released in January 2013....

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments: Huntingdonshire

Last year British History Online published the complete series of the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, England. To introduce these volumes for readers who may not be familiar with the RCHME, we asked a number of experts to write introductions to particular...

Master’s programme in Garden & Landscape History

We are launching a new Master’s programme in Garden & Landscape History this October here at the Institute of Historical Research. Librarian and lifetime-learner Clare Brown was excited to hear about our new MA and wrote to tell us about her experience of Garden...

Text to ideology or text to party status?

This is a post by team member Graeme Hirst of the University of Toronto: Is it possible to tell what a politician’s ideology is or what party they are a member of just by looking at a list of the words that they and don’t use? You might expect that even...