Bringing the VCH to Westmorland: Launching Lonsdale Ward, the First Red Book for Cumbria
In this blogpost, Dr Sarah Rose, Assistant Editor of the Victoria County History (VCH) project in Cumbria, describes the milestone achievement of producing Westmorland volume I, Lonsdale Ward. This is Westmorland’s first VCH publication and the 250th volume in...
The Value of Encouraging Neurodivergent Participation in Community Research Initiatives for the Victoria County History of England
This blog post was written by Dr Christopher Tinmouth, Victoria County History (VCH) Cumbria Participatory Research Officer Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway, photo by Christopher Tinmouth Autistic representation in academia, and in community participation in research...
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...
Researching the histories of race and ethnicity in the Bibliography of British and Irish History
In this blog post, Gaverne Bennett (PhD student at the University of Leicester) and Jenny Lelkes-Rarugal (BBIH editor) discuss how the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) can be used to research and teach the histories of race and ethnicity. What is BBIH?...