Free Online Training from the Centre for the History of People, Place and Community
This Autumn, the IHR’s Centre for the History of People, Place and Community launches an exciting new programme of online training, supporting skills for those working in ‘local history’ and beyond. How can tools for understanding place offer a way into examining the...
New from the Victoria County History of Herefordshire: Colwall
Colwall is the latest VCH ‘Short’ from Herefordshire series of the Victoria County History (VCH), published by the University of London Press. VCH Shorts are accessible histories which present high-quality VCH research for the general reader, focused on a particular...
“Depositories of local knowledge”: Using trade directories in the 19th-century town
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...