Exploring Europe’s TV history: from "BIRTH of TV" to "EUscreen"

A report in Media History outlines the problems accessing European television history, from the obvious language barriers, to archival content, meta data (and basic cataloguing), as well as IPR issues. However developments and innovations in digital and web...

Useful online sources about Victorian Women

Christine D. Myers (Franklin University) has produced a useful bibliography of online resources for the study of Victorian women (in Women’s History Review, 18:5, 2009). Intended as a guide for teaching courses the bibliography is wide ranging and covers...

Second World War site developed by film-maker Laurence Rees

The award-winning documentary maker, Laurence Rees, has produced a site on Second World War. He wrote and directed the television histories, The Nazis – a warning from history and World War II behind closed doors. He has also written books on the Holocaust and...

Guidelines for producing digital editions

Porta Historica is a European network of research institutes which, in one way or another, are responsible for producing editions of historical texts. It currently has five members, the École Nationale des Chartes, the Institute of Netherlands History, the Commission...

British History Online user survey

IHR Digital has been funded by JISC to investigate the use of digital resources in Higher Education teaching and research. We are going to adopt a twin approach, looking at the use of digital resources generally and also concentrating specifically on British History...