Domesday at the IHR
In this blog, IHR Fellow Chris Lewis writes about a new publication Domesday Book is justly famous as England’s oldest public record, the source of a teeming mass of information about every aspect of English government and society around the time of the Norman...
From Heritage Trail to History Book: The Story of Langley Burrell
In this blogpost, Dr Louise Ryland-Epton describes the gestation of her Victoria County History (VCH), Partnership Publication, which illuminates how VCH research engages with local communities and, in partnership, can expand our mutual understanding of past places....
‘The holiday resort of the people’: Exploring the History of the ‘Community at the Crossroads’
In this blogpost, Dr Pamela Fisher, County Editor of the Victoria County History (VCH) project in Leicestershire, describes a project on a tiny midland settlement and shows how VCH research engages with local communities and, in partnership, can expand their,...
Digitising the Victoria County History: first new volume added to British History Online
In this blog post, Dr Ruth Slatter (Co-General Editor of the Victoria County History and the VCH Digitisation Project Manager) celebrates the publication of new digitised VCH material on British History Online. With the generous support of the Marc Fitch...