Oct 11, 2012
In a previous blog I mentioned how Churchill has dominated historical writings and also mentioned that he had a journal devoted to him. Well now Churchill has his own online archive which is reviewed in Reviews in History. And so Churchill joins some of his successors...
Oct 8, 2012
The Royal Society Centre for History of Science has developed an online picture database of historical images from the Society’s collections. The website acts as a showcase for the Society’s extensive picture resources and it is hoped that this will...
Sep 5, 2012
This time last year the IHR was preparing to host the conference Novel approaches: from academic history to historical fiction. The conference covered such areas as the transition of historians from writing history to writing historical fiction; the differences and...
Jun 28, 2012
A recent issue of Media History has a special issue simply entitled “Ephemera”. The essays outline various justifications for the value of ephemera for historical research, covering such subjects as American humour in the late-Victorian British press, agony aunt...
May 23, 2012
There are around a dozen resources I use day in day out in compiling the Bibliography. I now rely on online resources so much that I dread any change in one of my favourites. You get used to the interface, their quirks, short cuts and, through use and experience,...
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