New issue of Historical Research

The May 2012 issue of Historical Research (lxxxv, no. 228) is now available. Contents include: The politics of remorse: penance and royal piety in the reign of Æthelred the Unready. Catherine Cubitt The Montfortian bishops and the justification of conciliar government...

The Siege of Jerusalem poem as digital media

The Siege of Jerusalem is a Middle English poem from the late fourteenth century which relates the fall of the city in 70AD. Literary critics and historians have discussed the poem, particularly focusing on its anti-Semitism and graphic portrayal of violence. There...

The shock of the old

When I worked for EEBO-TCP it seemed to me that many features of early printing were replicated on early websites. The to-and-fro of intemperate bloggers, responding angrily to each other’s posts, reminded me of the equally intemperate pamphlet wars that I...

Digitisation of legal history

© United Kingdom Supreme CourtWhat is the heraldic emblem of Northern Ireland? I learned the answer on a recent tour of the UK Supreme Court, whose logo represents the constituent parts of the UK with their emblems.The court came into existence in 2009 and immediately...

The Future of the Past

The most recent session in our Digital History seminar was a little different from most: a roundtable with a very wide theme. Entitled ‘The Future of the Past’, it featured Melissa Terras (UCL), Adam Farquhar (British Library), Torsten Reimer (JISC) and...