British History Online wins funding

British History Online has been awarded funding by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) as part of its Impact and Embedding programme. The award will allow us to carry out a detailed investigation of how people actually use digital online resources, both in...

1000 volumes on British History Online

We have now reached the 1000-volume landmark for British History Online. Each of these has been approved by our advisory panel of academics as being a valuable work of history and has been digitised according to the gold standard of text capture: double rekeying by...

Norfolk local history on British History Online

The British History Online team are delighted to announce that the eleven-volume history of Norfolk by Francis Blomefield is now complete. Published gradually between 1805 and 1810, An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk remains the...

British History Online Easier to Annotate

We have recently introduced a big improvement to the way our annotation feature for British History Online works, enhancing the experience for both annotators and readers. You will need to be logged in, but now simply double clicking on a line of text brings up the...

Calendar of Treasury Books Complete

All 32 volumes of the Calendar of Treasury Books are now available on British History Online. These volumes show in great detail the income, expenditure and debts of the government between the Restoration in 1660 and 1718, including information on, for example,...