Digitising the Calendars of Inquisitions post mortem

This post originally appeared on the Mapping the Medieval Countryside blog and is reposted here with permission from Michael Hicks Work has continued on making the published inquisitions post mortem freely accessible in the sixteen months since funding ceased, and we...

Changing perceptions of motherhood: maternal concepts and realities

As spring is traditionally the season associated with new life and fertility after the long winter months, now seems a timely moment to explore the latest academic publications on the subject of Motherhood featured in the Bibliography of British and Irish History. The...

BIGOT! Senate House Library seeks author of anonymous student pamphlet

Even amongst the extraordinary contents of the Ron Heisler collections, this strident little pamphlet rather stands out. It is the first and perhaps only issue of an underground magazine called, with arch provocativeness, Bigot. It is a remarkable mixture of sexual...

More project case studies available

We’re very pleased that all of the project case studies are now available to read online. We posted before about the first five case studies when we added them to our institutional repository. Now the other five have joined them. Searching for Home in the...