Graduate Trainee Library Assistant Post 2014-15 at the IHR

Level 2 point 10 on the University of London scale (£19,148pa inclusive of London Allowance; pay award pending) THE IHR Since its foundation in 1921, The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) has been an important resource and meeting place for researchers from all...

Sarah Rose on Westmorland

In another in our series of posts by experts in particular counties, Dr Sarah Rose of Lancaster University writes for us about the RCHME volume for Westmorland: I would like to reiterate the comments made by Professor Dyer, written in response to the online...

Peter Salt on RCHME, Cambridgeshire

British History Online has now completed its digitisation of the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments of England series; all volumes are now freely available to read online. The following post originally appeared on our British History Online blog. Of the last...

Historical Research – new early view articles

‘They seem to have all died out’: witches and witchcraft in Lark Rise to Candleford and the English countryside, c.1830–1930. Thomas Waters Flora Thompson’s account of the English countryside during the 1880s–1890s – Lark Rise to Candleford – continues to...

Copyright and images, part 2

The Permissions Controller for the digitisation of the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments of England, Rachael Lazenby, wrote an introductory guide to copyright for images, drawing on her experience on this project and on other work that she has done. Originally...