BBIH and History Day

My colleagues in the library have already blogged about History Day, however I thought I’d follow it up from the perspective of the Bibliography of British and Irish History  (BBIH) as I’ve had a number of enquiries which I can address here. After an outline of the...

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments: Huntingdonshire

Last year British History Online published the complete series of the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, England. To introduce these volumes for readers who may not be familiar with the RCHME, we asked a number of experts to write introductions to particular...

Historical Research – new articles published online

Intelligence and intrigue in the March of Wales: noblewomen and the fall of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, 1274–82 by Emma Cavell Licit medicine or ‘Pythagorean necromancy’? The ‘Sphere of Life and Death’ in late medieval England by Joanne Edge The Elizabethan succession...

Text to ideology or text to party status?

This is a post by team member Graeme Hirst of the University of Toronto: Is it possible to tell what a politician’s ideology is or what party they are a member of just by looking at a list of the words that they and don’t use? You might expect that even...