Calendar of Treasury Books Complete

All 32 volumes of the Calendar of Treasury Books are now available on British History Online. These volumes show in great detail the income, expenditure and debts of the government between the Restoration in 1660 and 1718, including information on, for example,...

Why Aren’t Researchers Using Web 2.0?

There’s an interesting article in Research Information this week, by web analyst David Stuart: he discusses the possible reasons that ‘Web 2.0 fails to excite today’s researchers’. As Stuart says, researchers are, on the face of it, natural...

Early English Laws website

The Early English Laws website went live today, a very exciting step for all of us in the project team. The editions, translations, manuscript images etc. will all be added over the next couple of years, but there’s plenty to be reading in the meantime.

Historical Research – new articles online

Three new Historical Research articles have been published on Early View:Administrative efficiency in fourteenth-century England: the delivery of writs based on evidence from the register of Bishop Martival. MICHAEL RAYThe archive of the official of Stow and the...

History of the Carers’ Movement

Anyone interested in the history of the Carers’ Movement should check out last night’s Voluntary Action History seminar by Timothy Cook, now available as a podcast on the IHR website.The History of the Carers’ Movement: A Remarkably Successful Story. Why?...