New resources for architectural history

We’re just about to begin work on a new digitisation project: of the inventory volumes of the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. The definition of a monument is widely drawn, to include historic buildings and structures of all kinds, and...

An index of sustainability: ISURV

This project will investigate the creation of a sustainability index which will be the product of three variables: unique visitors, their return rate and the number of page requests per visit. Unique visitors: this is related to a number of factors, such as the...

BHO wins new funding

We are pleased to announce that British History Online has been awarded funding by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) under strand B, ‘Enhancing the Sustainability of Digital Collections’, of the 16/11 Digital Infrastructure call. Entitled...

Mapping the medieval countryside

We’re delighted at BHO to be playing a part in this new AHRC-funded project, led by the Department of Digital Humanities (DDH) at King’s College London. Our involvement is the digitisation for BHO of 29 volumes of the Calendars of Inquisitions Post Mortem,...

London Sheriffs’ Court Roll

An edition of the court roll for 1320 is now live. Edited by Dr Matthew F. Stevens, it gives a complete edition and index of London’s only surviving such roll for the medieval period, for July-Sept 1320. It was produced as part of the Centre for Metropolitan...