This post has kindly been written for us by Dr Philip Carter of the ODNB The latest update to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography—published on Thursday 7 January 2016—adds biographies of 222 modern Britons who died in the year 2012. The update includes the...
On 11 November the IHR held a workshop, ‘An Introduction to Web Archiving for Historians’, for which we welcomed back two old friends from the BUDDAH project as speakers. The day opened with Jane Winters talking about why historians should be using web...
This post was kindly written for us by IHR intern Alex Thompson. Connected Histories is a website made for online research of a variety of different topics ranging between 1500 and 1900. When typing in and searching for a particular topic, the search will include...
The latest update to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography—published on Thursday 17 September 2015—adds biographies of 112 men and women active between the thirteenth and the early twenty-first century. The new update includes a special focus on men and women...
Courtney J. Campbell, Past & Present Fellow at the IHR for 2014-15, has had a paper published in the most recent issue of Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies. From the abstract: This article compares two cases in which...
Donald Balloch, the ‘Treaty of Ardtornish-Westminster’ and the MacDonald raids of 1461–3. James Petre This article attempts a reassessment of Clan Donald’s activities and their relations with the Scottish and English crowns in 1461–3. There are two objectives:...
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