Churchill, Thatcher, Major, Blair, Brown and Powell

In a previous blog I mentioned how Churchill has dominated historical writings and also mentioned that he had a journal devoted to him. Well now Churchill has his own online archive which is reviewed in Reviews in History. And so Churchill joins some of his successors...

Survey of London: Clerkenwell

This is a guest post from Mark Aston of the Islington Local History Centre, to mark the publication on British History Online of two volumes of the Survey of London covering Clerkenwell. In 2008, staff at Islington Local History based at Finsbury Library, in the heart...

The Royal Society Picture Library database

The Royal Society Centre for History of Science has developed an online picture database of historical images from the Society’s collections. The website acts as a showcase for the Society’s extensive picture resources and it is hoped that this will...

Launching digital tools modules: Semantic Mark-up and Text Mining

Two new inter-related free modules are now available on the History SPOT platform beginning a series on digital tools. The first is about semantic mark-up – this is a beginner’s guide to marking up a text in XML so that it is searchable for information pertinent to...

Trials and Tribulations of the RCHME Commissioners

A guest post from the Permissions Controller for the digitisation of RCHME volumes: As announced earlier in the year, the IHR is undertaking a project funded by English Heritage to digitise the 43 volumes produced by the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments of...

InScribe: a new way to learn Palaeography

Welcome to InScribe: Palaeography Learning Materials! This new project, based at the School of Advanced Study (University of London), was devised by Prof Michelle Brown (who left the School in July) and Dr Jane Winters. InScribe is a new online resource (VLE) to...