Rethinking the interests of eighteenth-century Britain

British History in the Long 18th CenturyRethinking the interests of eighteenth-century BritainJulian Hoppit (University College London)5 October 2011Julian Hoppit looks at the current state of research into eighteenth-century Britain.  His assessment is not entirely...

Taking the Field: Telling the Stories of Grassroots Cricket

Sport and Leisure History9 January 2012 Dr Emma Peplow (University of Glamorgan/Marylebone Cricket Club)Taking the Field: Telling the Stories of Grassroots Cricket   Most histories of cricket ignore the grassroots game in favour of the bigger teams.  Emma Peplow...

The Old Bailey Corpus: Spoken English in the 18th and 19th Centuries

Digital History seminar21 February 2012Magnus Huber (Giessen)The Old Bailey Corpus: Spoken English in the 18th and 19th Centuries The Old Bailey Proceedings Online is a heavily used resource by historians of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who want to look at...