By James Davis, Catherine Casson and John Lee Environment & History, essay no. 2 In the second part of our ‘Environment & History’ series, historians James Davis, Catherine Casson and John Lee share their research on the re-circulation of waste and...
From the BHO editorial team British History Online (BHO) is a digital collection of key printed primary and secondary sources for the history of Britain and Ireland, with a special focus on the period 1300 to 1800. As we enter a new lockdown period...
By Catherine Delano-Smith Dr Catherine Delano-Smith, Senior Research Fellow at the IHR, is leading a new project with Nick Millea, map curator at Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, entitled ‘Understanding the medieval Gough Map through physics, chemistry and...
By Anaïs Waag Until very recently medieval studies was dominated by the perception that women were actively kept away from political power – a notion we owe mainly to nineteenth-century historians. While there was undoubtedly a preference for male rulers throughout...
By Adam Chapman If you happen to be a medieval or early modern historian of the British Isles you probably won’t need to be told about the value of the Patent Rolls and why it’s good news that British History Online (BHO) is adding them to its digitised collection of...
