Nov 29, 2024
This blog post was written by BBIH user Gordon McKelvie. History lecturers need to see the BBIH as more than a convenient tool for updating reading lists. Using the example of revolts through English history, this blog uses BBIH to produce data that can frame...
Oct 31, 2024
With the nights drawing in, it’s the season for storytelling. This curious and disconcerting letter was found recently in the archive of the Victoria County History of England (addressed to then-General Editor, William Page) and is published here for the first time....
Oct 23, 2024
In this second of two blog posts, Anne-Marie Harvatt, VCH Digitisation Summer Intern 2024, reflects on the challenges and potentials of digitising historical sources. As discussed in the earlier of these posts, digitising a VCH Big Red Book is far from straightforward...
Oct 9, 2024
In this blog post Ruth Slatter (IHR) and Kathy Davies (History Lab Plus) reflect on the IHR, Centre for the History of People, Place and Community, and History Lab Plus Place-Based Histories: interdisciplinary ECR workshop held in Sheffield on 5 September 2024. On 5...
Oct 1, 2024
This blog post was written by Tim Hitchcock and Penelope J. Corfield, authors of Becoming a Historian: An Informal Guide. In it they respond to questions from IHR students and Early Career Fellows. Recently, we published our ‘informal guide’ to Becoming a...
Jun 11, 2024
When the decision was taken by the Ministry of Aircraft Production to site a ‘Sunderland’ seaplane assembly factory and accompanying workers’ accommodation on requisitioned farm land at Calgarth on the shores of Lake Windermere in late 1941 in support of Britain’s war...
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