Sports and Celebrations

For the UK, 2012 is turning into one of those years where celebrations mingle with fears of recession and global economic catastrophe.  It’s an odd mix.  The hosting of the Olympics and Paralympics Games this summer alongside the recent celebration of Queen Elizabeth...

Early View articles on Historical Research

The following new articles are available in the Early View issue of Historical Research:The South Sea Company and its plan for a naval expedition in 1712. Shinsuke Satsuma‘A Warning Against Quack Doctors’: the Old Bailey trial of Indian oculists, 1893. Sumita...

New Historical Research articles online

Two new Historical Research articles have been published online:Some newly identified documents from the military survey of Warwickshire, 1522 by Penelope UptonRecorda splendidissima: the use of pipe rolls in the thirteenth century byRichard CassidySee our Early View...

New issue of Historical Research

The November issue of Historical Research (vol. LXXXIV, no. 226) is now available.Articles:Church, state and law: solutions to lay contumacy in the Anglo-Scottish borders during the later thirteenth century. Philippa M. HoskinGrave stuff: litigation with a London...

History SPOT: A guide to designing Databases for Historical Research

With the launch of History SPOT the Institute of Historical Research have also launched a brand new handbook written by our own Dr Mark Merry on the subject of designing databases for historical research. Mark is the primary tutor on our various Databases course and...