IHR Director Miles Taylor on the Today Programme

The IHR’s Director, Professor Miles Taylor, can be heard on this morning’s (18 December) Today Programme discussing the new History of Parliament volumes on the House of Commons between 1820 and 1832. He and the HoP’s Philip Salmon were both asked as...

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...

Thanks to Michelle Nash.

Over the summer IHR Digital benefited greatly from the contribution of Michelle Nash, who had come from the United States to work at the IHR as an intern. We were not short of jobs for Michelle to do, and she carried them all out with great willingness and competence....

More House of Lords Journals on BHO

We have uploaded another three volumes of the Journal of the House of Lords: volumes 21, 22, and 23, which cover the years 1718 to 1730. In partnership with The History of Parliament Trust we are able to digitise 19 volumes this summer, to add to the volumes already...

Social Software in the Digital Humanities

I note a new discussion group, a space in which ‘to critically discuss and share thoughts about the use of social software applications, techniques, and principles within the Digital Humanities’. Part of arts-humanities.net (initially funded by the AHRC),...