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...
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...
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....
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...
British History in the Long 18th Century 30 March 2011 Sarah Lloyd (Hertfordshire) Ephemeral Lives: On writing a ticket-centred history of 18th-century Britain Tickets: lottery tickets, theatre tickets, turnpike tickets, admission tickets and so forth. In the...
