Chris Dyer on RCHME, Northants

British History Online recently published the six inventory volumes for the county of Northamptonshire. To help to put these volumes in context, Professor Chris Dyer has kindly written a guest blog post explaining their importance. Chris Dyer is Emeritus Professor of...

Roman inscriptions online

British History Online has been publishing the inventory volumes of the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England) series. We currently have 30 volumes online, with another dozen or so to come, and it’s a pleasure to be able to make this painstakingly...

Roman Inscriptions in the RCHME

Over the last couple of months we have published two volumes about Roman remains in England: Roman London and Eburacum, Roman York. These have been part of our current digitisation of the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments inventory series for England. This...

April photo competition winner

For this month’s competition the voting among my colleagues gave us a shortlist of three. In no particular order the two runners-up were: Tudor Barlow’s picture of the cloisters at Gloucester Cathedral This will be a familiar setting to many but the light...

March photo competition winner

Our photo competition is ongoing through the summer, when we will be celebrating British History Online’s 10th anniversary. As with last month, a great variety of images were added our BHO Flickr group. This month we shortlisted three, not because the quality of...