Oct 1, 2019
By Brodie Waddell September 2019 saw publication of the first tranche of content from The Power of Petitioning in Seventeenth Century England — a research project to transcribe and publish more than 2000 petitions composed and sent between the late sixteenth and...
Dec 20, 2018
By Simon Townley The Victoria County History (VCH) is known for its meticulously researched parish and urban histories, the epitome of an approach which aims to build history from the ground up rather than imposing it from above. By studying groups of parishes within...
Nov 26, 2018
By Francis Calvert Boorman London has long been thought of as the archetypal conurbation; a vast and unbroken metropolis nevertheless made up of distinctive localities. As the writer and politician Joseph Addison (1672-1719) mused in The Spectator in 1712, ‘When I...
Nov 9, 2018
During November 2018, the IHR will host three of its annual named lectures in modern Irish History, Public History and Modern British History with Senia Paseta, Lucy Delap and Richard Vinen. The lectures will be held in the Institute of Historical Research at the...
Sep 4, 2018
By Adam Chapman If you happen to be a medieval or early modern historian of the British Isles you probably won’t need to be told about the value of the Patent Rolls and why it’s good news that British History Online (BHO) is adding them to its digitised collection of...