Risk or reward? An eighteenth-century tontine

Feb 15, 2019

By Diane Clements In 2018 Diane Clements graduated with an MRes from the Institute of Historical Research. Her 30,000-word dissertation looked at the workings of an eighteenth-century ‘tontine’, offering new insight on attitudes to private investment and...

“Depositories of local knowledge”: Using trade directories in the 19th-century town

Dec 11, 2018

By Cristina Sasse Nowadays, when we are new to a town or need to find information about a doctor or a certain type of shop, we use internet search engines, web mapping services, and mobile navigation apps to find what we want. We use social media, online...

What’s in a Name?: The ‘Conversation’ Piece in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Apr 25, 2013

British History in the Long 18th Century 7 November 2012 Kate Retford (Birkbeck, University of London) What’s in a Name?: The ‘Conversation’ Piece in Eighteenth-Century Britain   For the uninitiated (that would include me, I’m afraid!) ‘conversation’ pieces is a term...

The prevention of crime in late eighteenth-century Bristol: policing, the public, and the city

Oct 25, 2012

Metropolitan History The prevention of crime in late eighteenth-century Bristol: policing, the public, and the city Matthew Neale (IHR) 29 February 2012   This is a guest post by James Wilkinson, one of IHR Digital’s summer interns from the University of Leicester....

Consultation on Eighteenth Century Texts

Sep 5, 2012

At BHO we are considering the possibility of republishing some of the transcriptions produced by Eighteenth Century Collections Online Text Creation Partnership (ECCO-TCP). Our aim would be to select texts that work particularly well with current BHO content, but we...