Victoria County History for Wiltshire

Victoria County History for Wiltshire

We are delighted to announce that six new volumes of the VCH for Wiltshire are now live on British History Online. The launch of volumes 5, 7, 11 and 13-15 completes the published coverage of the parishes of the county, and brings the total count of volumes up to 15,...

Who was Henry VII?

He fought Richard III to the death in 1485 after 14 years in exile and a tenuous claim to the throne. He was aware that five of the last nine English kings were killed so they could be replaced. Yet he brought stability to the realm, economic solvency to the...

Report on the ‘Missing links: the enduring web’ conference

The conference, organised by the Joint Informations Systems Committee (JISC), the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and the UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC), was timely and of great significance (all of the presentations are available on the DPC website). In the...

Collective volumes on RHS Bibliography

One of the strengths of the Bibliography is the documenting of chapters within collective volumes such as conference proceedings and Festschriften. The collating of such information can be difficult and time-consuming. Details are gathered from the British National...