Apr 19, 2012
The May 2012 issue of Historical Research (lxxxv, no. 228) is now available. Contents include: The politics of remorse: penance and royal piety in the reign of Æthelred the Unready. Catherine Cubitt The Montfortian bishops and the justification of conciliar government...
Mar 23, 2012
Following a previous blog on the online availability of the Bibliography on Swiss History (BSH) I can report that volumes for the years 2008 and 2009 of the Bibliography have now been published. They are available in PDF format on the BSH site. All the bibliographic...
Mar 7, 2012
A few weeks ago I was walking through the Dutch rooms in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford when, to my great surprise, I found myself standing in front of a painting by Vermeer. There are only five Vermeer paintings held in collections in Great Britain, and this...
Feb 8, 2012
It’s bitterly cold in most of the UK at the moment, with overnight temperatures lower than -10° C in some areas. However, there’s no prospect of the Thames freezing over just yet. A search of Connected Histories reveals that this was a not uncommon...
Feb 6, 2012
Whenever someone asks me who is my favourite Chinese emperor I always reply, “Qianlong, who else?” Like other early Qing emperors, Qianlong was a fanatical antiquarian and collected and preserved countless cultural artefacts from China’s past, which...
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