Laurence Swarfeld of Antwerp and London: Cross Channel Connections in the 15th century Customs Accounts
The IHR’s Centre for the History of People, Place and Community has been carrying out some exploratory research on the potential of analysing London’s medieval customs accounts digitally. Detailed, or ‘particular’ customs accounts recorded immense detail...
Building Castle Stories – insights from a CHPPC Advisory Board member
Will Wyeth has recently joined the Advisory Board of the IHR’s Centre for the History of People, Place and Community as an ECR member. In this blog he talks about how he came to be an historian of castles. Underwhelming Motorway Castle Quite early on in my Ph.D. I did...
Victoria County History Smartphone App: Retirement
In early 2020 we launched our VCH smartphone app, ‘A History of English Places’. It had been developed through a project funded internally by the University of London in 2014, and was produced in partnership with Aimer Media. In 2023, Aimer Media was bought up by...